Video: Inside the Benaki Museum

In a deeply personal project, Madrid-based Spanish designer Marta de la Rica breathed new life into the family house her parents built decades ago, where she spent her childhood and where her father still lives today. Marta tells Busola Evans how she balanced collected antique treasures and emotional ties with a fresh perspective.

Although Mallorca, the largest island in the Balearic archipelago, has been enjoyed "almost to exhaustion", this green jewel off the east coast of Spain is evolving, pushing back on package holidays to protect its true soul: monasteries, citrus groves, Moorish ruins, and narrow cobbled streets. The new luxury is a return to simplicity, finds writer and photographer Sam Parkes.

Lagos-based art patron, curator and collector, Ugoma Ebilah, shares a highly curated insider’s guide to the nonstop Nigerian capital, revealing a vibrant city full of tranquil escapes, atmospheric restaurants, and soulful corners bursting with creative energy.

New York-based interiors stylist and decorator Mieke ten Have is known for her refined eye and intuitive layering of spaces. Here she discusses her daily rituals—from juggling work commitments to looking after her five cats and treasured meal times with her family

There is perhaps no more recognisable city on earth than Havana, writes photographer Sam Parkes, who has dreamt of visiting the Cuban capital since childhood. Resisting the urge to romanticise the city with tired cliches of 'beautiful decay' and 'crumbling beauty', Sam allows his camera, and words, to tell their own story.

Family-run John Sandoe Books has a host of illustrious regulars - which once included Christopher Gibbs - and has been a much-loved presence on London's book scene for generations. John de Falbe, who runs the Chelsea bookstore with his wife, Arabella, talks Cabana through the rhythms of his day and the keys to the shop's success.

In the heart of Wyoming, Anna Sullivan resurrects the T Cross 'Dude Ranch', blending Old West grit with midcentury charm. Together with designer Cecelia Heffernan, she restores historic cabins, salvages century-old treasures, and turns the legendary 160-acre ranch into a timeless escape under the American sky.

Built around 1700, Villa Marchetti is an 18th century estate in the hills of Pistoia, Tuscany, surrounded by olive groves, grape vines and a quality of light that feels otherworldly. Liz Gardner meets its newest custodian, 71-year-old Alecia Stevens, an Iowa-born interior designer who has taken great pleasure in undertaking only the most discreet of restorations. 

Eminent Italian architect Duccio Conti Caponi sits down with Cabana to share highlights from his extraordinary life and career in design - from growing up among artists, writers and historians, to travelling the Nile and overcoming psychological burdens. Along with beautiful rooms, Duccio shares his personal achievements, greatest challenges, dream (and nightmare) interiors, guiltiest pleasures, and much more.

James Thurstan Waterworth, an avid collector and founder of London-based design studio Thurstan, shares beautiful images from his impressive room at Wow!House 2025, which includes two exceptional objects that have passed through his hands: his greatest find and the piece he'll keep forever.

As artisanal fashion brand Mi Golondrina pops up at The Cabana Store in Milan, founder Cristina Lynch shares a guide to her hometown, Dallas. Discover the vintage ‘institution’ she frequents for inspiration, a hidden treasure that serves up the best soufflés and her tried and tested itinerary for a perfect summer weekend in the city.

Dar Khalifa - or The Caliph’s House - looks out of place in Casablanca now. Wedged between modern high rises, on the western fringes of the city, it sits like a verdant oasis in a desert of functional modernity. But it wasn’t always like that. Writer and photographer Sam Parkes explores an extraordinary house.