Dominique Browning

Who is Dominique Browning?

Dominique Browning is an American writer and editor. From 1995 to 2007 she was the Editor-in-chief of the Conde Nast shelter publication House & Garden. Prior to House & Garden she worked at Savvy, American Photographer, Esquire, Newsweek, and Mirabella. As the Editor-in-chief of the re-launched House & Garden, she introduced global environment issues to the magazines pages, and sought to search for the more meaningful ideals behind the hype-consumerism of Condé Nast publications typical of the time period, while the editorials of the issues she edited were, for her:

"...A way of trying to tell readers that even though we were showing perfect rooms and perfect gardens, life is not perfect. And things happen, crazy things, bad things, sad thing, wonderful things happen in those rooms. And that the point of all this nesting and decorating is life. And living a good of life as we possibly can. And I also wanted to remind people why this mattered. That design is not an airhead subject, that it's an important subject, and that making a house and a garden is a pretty profound activity. So, at least in the column it was a way to speak directly to the readers about these issues... I was always trying to search for, How do we add another dimension to this very materialistic effort of making a house and a garden? "