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A Salone Soirée: Martina Mondadori Hosts Amy Astley at Casa Cabana
Words by Sophie Goodwin
Images by Giulia Vergara
Martina Mondadori's Salone Soirée for Amy Astley
Cabana founder and Editor-in-Chief Martina Mondadori hosted her annual Salone party at Casa Cabana, this time in celebration of her close friend Amy Astley who launched AD at Home during Milan Design Week. The elegant event gathered the great and good of the design world, marking the near-end of another successful Salone.
📍Casa Cabana, Milan

Amy Astley arrives at Casa Cabana to celebrate AD at Home during Salone.
There are certain evenings during Milan Design Week that feel less like events and more like family gatherings, moments of stillness, familiarity and warmth amid the week’s perpetual motion. The soirée Martina Mondadori hosted at Casa Cabana in honor of Amy Astley, Editor in Chief of Architectural Digest, was precisely that sort of evening.
The occasion was Amy’s new book, AD at Home, which holds an intimate survey of spaces she has loved during her tenure at the helm of the world’s most venerable interiors title. From Dakota Johnson’s sun-drenched Los Angeles home to the composed New York apartment of Shonda Rhimes, the book is a portrait of both rooms and lives: the way people shape their surroundings, and are shaped by them in return.
Martina Mondadori & Giorgio Guidotti
Issue 25 at Casa Cabana
Amy Astley & Martina Mondadori
Amy Astley & Kelly Wearstler
Derek Blasberg
Osanna Visconti & Emiliano Salci
Adam Charlap Hyman & JJ Martin
Christine D'Ornano
Athena Calderone & Laura Rimini
Asad Syrkett
Flowers by Jardin La Ménagère
Coco Brandolini d'Adda
Will Cooper
Emily Weiss & Adam Charlap Hyman
Vinita Chaitanya
Set within the Renzo Mongiardino-designed apartment (that most storied of Milanese interiors, layered with decades of decoration, history, and atmosphere) Casa Cabana proved itself to be, as ever, the ideal backdrop. During Milan Design Week, when the city is at its most exhilarating, and its most exhausting, there is something genuinely restorative about arriving somewhere that feels so entirely effortless.
The glorious, abundant flowers were by Jardin La Ménagère, while tables were dressed with Babe linens from Cabana’s Spring/Summer ’26 hosting collection, which more than lived up to their name. The food, and there was a great deal of it, ran the full Italian register: gnocco fritto, orecchiette, panna cotta with strawberries, crostate, and the infamous Cabana chocolate cake, which continues to attract its own loyal following.
Maddie O'Malley & Martina Mondadori
Dinner at Casa Cabana, featuring Babe tablecloth from Cabana's Hosting Collection '26
Colin King
Rebecca de Ravenel
Leonora Hamill
Mafalda Munoz and Gonzalo Machado
Giuseppe Porcelli
Ambra Medda
Dinner at Casa Cabana
Virginia Tupker
Allegra Hicks
The guest list included leading names from the international worlds of design and fashion. Among the attendees were Kelly Wearstler, Derek Blasberg, Coco Brandolini d'Adda, Kristina O’Neill, Emiliano Salci, Laura Rimini, Christine d’Ornano, Will Cooper, Tom Delavan, Colin King and Athena Calderone — a room of people who think seriously about beauty and how it is lived in, entirely apt for the book being celebrated.
By the time the evening drew to a close, it had achieved that particular quality that the best Casa Cabana evenings always do: the sense that conversation had gone on longer than anyone intended, and that nobody had minded in the least.
Emiliano Salci and Osanna Visconti
The New Issue N25
Amy Astley & Marie-Anne Oudejans
Charlotte de Tonnac & Hugo Sauzay
Margherita Missoni & Emiliano Salci
Kate Berry
Camilla Frances, Grace Hitchens Hilsey & Ross Belfer
Caterina Mocenni & Virginie Droulers
Francesca Mapelli & Mario Milana
Busola Evans
Words by Sophie Goodwin
Images from Giulia Vergara