Sanoma Magazines

Villa Design magazine - out now in Romania!

Bucharest, 18 December 2008 - Sanoma Hearst Romania launched Villa Design, an up-market home deco magazine that targets the elite, on 17 December. Villa Design features everything that is remarkable in art, architecture and design in an ideal combination of classic and modern.

Villa Design readers are both male and female, aged between 25-55 years old, with a higher education and income. Their home and its surroundings represent an important means for them to express their success in life.

Adela Parvu, VillaDesign�s Editor-in-Chief, comments the magazine�s editorial concept: "Between its cover pages, Villa Design contains a fabulous world of design objects, interiors and spectacular destinations. But the magazine is more than that; it is also a profound study to explore what lies beyond our imagination. Beautiful things thrill us. But if we understand where the line, form or colour that thrills us is coming from, we will also discover the story of the people creating them. Villa Design explores these sources of creativity."

Villa Design is published quarterly in a 15,000 copy print-run. Each issue has 164 pages and costs RON 9.9.

About Sanoma Hearst Romania:
Sanoma Hearst Romania is a joint venture of Sanoma Magazines International (SMI) and Hearst Magazines International. Sanoma Magazines International, located in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), is responsible for the activities of Sanoma Magazines in Central, Eastern and South East Europe and Russia.

Sanoma Magazines is a leading publisher of magazines and digital media that actively reaches out to an audience of 290 million consumers at every life stage. The company has business operations in thirteen countries, spanning the European continent from the North Sea to the Bering Sea and from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea. Sanoma Magazines aims to grow market leading positions in all of its operating countries.

Sanoma Magazines is a division of the Sanoma Group, a strong European media group operating in diverse fields of media in twenty countries.

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