California Home + Design

{{Short description|American media brand}}

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{{notability|Web|date=May 2013}}

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| title = California Home + Design

| logo = California Home+Design.jpg

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| editor = Lindsey Shook

| editor_title = Editorial + Brand Director

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| category = Architecture, Art, Interior Design and Travel

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| format = Online

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| publisher = Ali Grosslight

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| founder = Sloane Citron and Elsie Floriani

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| finaldate = Currently In Print

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| company = CHD Media, Inc.

| country = United States

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| language = English

| website = {{URL|http://www.californiahomedesign.com}}

| issn = 1545-7915

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California Home+Design is a United States multi-platform media brand that covers home, architecture, products, art and lifestyle stories throughout the state of California.{{cite web|last=Prentice |first=Marcia |url=http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/california-homedesign-goes-dig-148746 |title=California Home+Design Magazine Launches Digital Issue |publisher=Apartment Therapy |date=2011-06-10 |accessdate=2013-09-22}} California Home+Design magazine is distributed quarterly. The audience for California Home + Design extends from Sacramento to San Diego and exceeds 600,000.

California Home+Design was founded in the mid-1990s by Sloane Citron and Elsie Floriani of 18media under the name of California Home & Gardens.{{Cite web |last=Hubbard |first=Linda |date=2019-06-14 |title=Gentry magazine sold to Southern California digital media and entertainment company |url=https://inmenlo.com/2019/06/14/gentry-magazine-sold-to-southern-california-digital-media-and-entertainment/ |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=InMenlo |language=en-US}} In 2004 McEvoy Media, then Hartle Media, acquired a majority interest in the publication and changed the name to California Home+Design and californiahomedesign.com.{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2005/01/31/story6.html?page=all |title=Square deal - San Francisco Business Times |publisher=Bizjournals.com |date=2005-01-30 |accessdate=2013-09-22}} This act was later followed by the acquisition of Spin magazine by McEvoy Media.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/01/BUG8VHGCI11.DTL |title=S.F. group buys 20-year-old rock music magazine Spin / Nion McEvoy leads company created for the acquisition |date=2006-03-01 |accessdate=2013-09-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113045313/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fchronicle%2Farchive%2F2006%2F03%2F01%2FBUG8VHGCI11.DTL |archive-date=November 13, 2007 }} McEvoy Media also produced 7x7 magazine and is a part of the McEvoy Group which also own publishing house Chronicle Books.

In 2014, McEvoy shut down the brand and sold it to a former staff member for a relaunch.{{Cite web |date=2014-02-19 |title=California Home + Design Shuts Down After 20 Years |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2014/02/california-home-design-shuts-down-after-20-years/ |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=The Architect’s Newspaper |language=en-US}}