"I enjoy writing for creative editors and PR counselors about interior design and the arts..."

I enjoy writing for creative editors and PR counselors about interior design and the arts...

Designbard Louis Postel

Louis Postel has more than 20 years of leadership experience in cultural journalism, chronicling -- and occasionally anticipating – many important developments in the fields of fine art and interior design – while at the same time profiling an unprecedented number of major figures: from Jules Olitsky to George Nick, from Diane Von Furstenberg to Jane Seymour, from Mario Buatta to Juan Montoya -- as well almost every major mega yacht designer: Francois Zuretti, Patrick Knowles, Glade Johnson, etc.

An insightful and careful observer as well as a compelling narrative writer, Postel work has been published widely in the luxury design sector, including Showboats International, Wynn Las Vegas, Robb Report Luxury Home, Home Entertainment, Art & Antiques, Boston Magazine Home, Season in the Sun (Palm Springs), Design Times, New England Home, as well as other media.

Offering a rare blend of listening-ability and creativity, Postel has helped position Showboats’
“Design Showcase” section as the must-read for news concerning the huge uptick in sophistication within today’s “floating palaces.” Designers from all over the world have offered their thoughts within DSC’s pages on a myriad of topics: from the use of the latest gadgets to the ins and outs of the color beige; from stream-lined window profiles to the latest in custom made furnishings.

In 1988 Louis Postel founded Design Times magazine which he wrote for and edited until 2003. Under Postel’s leadership the impact of the publication nationally was to show how designers were succeeding in putting their own twist on traditional styles and in such a way as to make those styles fresh as well as contemporary.

His magazine was distributed nationally through Barnes & Noble, Borders and other outlets; advertising revenues consistently exceeded one million dollars.

In 2005 Postel joined New England Home magazine as Senior Editor for what turned out to be a spectacular launch and subsequent sale to Network Communications, a division of Citigroup. Postel continues to write many of its defining columns including “To the Trade” and “Only In New England.”

Postel’s leadership role in the magazine field became apparent early on when he was elected Editor In Chief of The Putney Review, his high school literary magazine, based in Putney, Vermont (1968) and, again, when he founded Provincetown Poets magazine in Provincetown, MA in 1971. Provincetown Poets published new work by many of the country’s leading writers including Marge Piercy, Alan Dugan, and Mary Oliver while also bringing many undiscovered writers to light; sponsoring readings at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The magazine received several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 1976 Postel helped found Outermost Radio (WOMR FM, 92.1) and educational station that thrives to this day.

After attending the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Postel became a Writing Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA where he studied with Pulitzer-prize winners Oliver and Dugan. In 1999 he was awarded a Presidential Citation from the American Society of Interior Designers of New England, and in 2000 he was awarded the “Unsung Hero” award from the Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids.

Louis Postel lives in Cambridge, MA and Jamaica, VT. He is married to the psychotherapist Valery Rockwell and has two children adopted from China.