Patty Lou Pashong (1929–2021,) also known as Paige Rense Noland, was an American writer and editor who served as editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest magazine 1975–2010. A powerful force in interior design, she showcased the lavish homes of celebrities, world leaders, and international power brokers.
Born in Des Moines, Rense was a high school dropout. She began her editorial career began in the mid-1950 at a skin-diving magazine called Water World. She joined Architectural Digest in 1970 when it was a local trade publication. As executive editor since 1971 and editor in chief since 1975, she transformed Architectural Digest from a local Los Angeles trade journal into a renowned design publication with global reach.
Rense also transformed the cooking magazine Bon Appétit into its modern format and was editor-in-chief of GEO, the collection of monthly educational magazines. Rense wrote the mystery novel Manor House (1997) and Architectural Digest: Autobiography of a Magazine 1920–2010 (2018.)
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When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
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