Christmas 2001. Here in NYC it was, to state the blindingly obvious, different. But, looking back now at that year's crop of holiday magazines there's a reassuring level of normalcy, due, no doubt, many issues having been put to bed months earlier. There are a surprisingly small number of Christmassy ads though, but I imagine that's just a coincidence.
(Please pardon the quality of the scans, I'm in the midst of moving house and both my flatbed scanner and Printer/Scanner are packed away at the moment.)
The issue is made up of the usual array of well turned out homes of the well off and tradition interior design inclined.
I remember being quite the Smith & Hawken fan back in the day. I'd absolutely forgotten that they'd become corporate compost back in 2009.
My daughter went through a Swarovski phase when she was little, luckily she preferred the relatively less expensive little animal figurines and had doting Grandmothers to help her build her collection. I think we have a couple of the annual ornaments around somewhere, or perhaps she has them at her house. Not sure if we ever got the 2001.
I'm not much of an interior design guy, so when browsing Home mags I usually forward to the token food article they usually have. The very brief foodie feature in this issue finds legendary
Chef Lydia Bastianich creating a menu of antipasto for the holidays.
A couple of, less refined, but likely quite nummy, recipes came courtesy of a GladWare advertisement
An ad for that year's Christmas Revels, which are always a delight and which I unfortunately didn't make the trek to see in 2001.
I'll close things out with the only non-Christmas ad I found at all interesting, from Ikea.
