Rue: a new interior design magazine

I've posted previously about The City Sage, an excellent interior design blog by my friend Anne Sage. Earlier this year, Anne and Crystal Gentilello of the Plush Palate blog hunkered down in secret to create a new, full-on interior design magazine, called Rue. The first issue 250+ page issue launched today and it's magnificent. Rue looks and reads like an opulent print magazine, only no trees were harmed in its creation. Congratulations, Anne! Rue Magazine

• [Donald Petersen]

  Being American, I generally only think of “rue” as meaning street when part of an address. (For instance, my brother once lived on Rue Rodier near Montmarte about 30 years ago.)

  My mind just goes right to the English definition, and a magazine in English whose title connotes regret doesn’t exactly make me wanna take up their decorating advice.

  And a side note: they also have adopted something that I pray hasn’t/can’t/won’t catch on: next to the Facebook button at the top, an invitation to “fan us”??

  Good thing my opinions on taste and fashion are worth less than the pixels they’re printed on. I wouldn’t know a classy interior design if it collapsed on me.

  Now, a magazine called “Grue” I might possess a valid opinion about…

• [cjp]

  The couches are to die for, but their scrolling setup is making me seasick.

• [knoxblox]

  Rue: n. regret, sorrow;
  v. transitive; to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for;
  v. intransitive, to feel sorrow, remorse, or regret.

  Nicely put together magazine, but I guess it’s too late to change the name?

• [epi_mom]

  Rue is also French for street.

  • [knoxblox]

    Correct. Which is why product names that bring about grammar issues bug me a little, such as words like rue, which is both a homonym and a homograph, or homophones like Aciphex (ass-effects).

• [Ito Kagehisa]

  Common rue contains a dangerous but potent abortifacient & embryotoxin.

  Veternarians still use an extract as an equine abortifacient, I’m told.

  Brings a new meaning to “you’ll rue the day”, eh?

  One dusty half-hour’s ride, up to the north,
  there lies your reputation, all that you’re worth.
  Where the scent of wild roses turns the milk to cream
  Tell your mother that you walked all night on velvet green…

• [sdmikev]

  I see new photos from this magazine showing up here soon:

  http://unhappyhipsters.com/

• [Anonymous]

  My heart sank when I saw they’re published on a service that doesn’t let you read on the iPad or print out more than 2 pages at a time. I hate, hate, hate reading on a laptop or desktop. I hope that iPad support comes soon!

• [monstrinho_do_biscoito]

  you’ll rue the day!

  well go on! START RUING!

• [Anonymous]

  Oh boo hoo!

  I think its an amazing idea, a great concept, wonderfully created. The name is fresh, modern and fun! As in all magazines, online or not, there are a few tweaks to be made, but overall it is an amazing ‘green’ magazine.

  Why are we all so easy to judge and complain about someone’s creation, the product of their hearts and souls?

  Be happy and enjoy the world that is created in Rue magazine. We can not all be artists or creators, so be grateful that someone else has such great talent to write this magazine, that someone is innovative to create a paperless product, that someone has shared this with the world.

• [Anonymous]

  I hope they don’t rue the day they started this magazine. (Really…Rue?! They couldn’t come up with a better name than that?)