 Like the newspaper, the magazine is owned by The Economist Group, a British media holding company.The magazine was launched under the title "Intelligent Life" in September 2007 as a quarterly publication, having previously been a summer annual and is billed as for "the arts, style, food, wine, cars, travel and anything else under the sun, as long as it’s interesting".Beginning March 2016, Economist Group relaunched and rebranded "Intelligent Life" as "1843" (named for "The Economist"'s founding year).