WORLD OF CABANA

MASTERS & MUSES

Meet the artists, designers, creatives and tastemakers who truly inspire Cabana. Read interviews with the design world's most exciting talents, and thoughtful essays on the lives and legacies of those we most admire.

One day With Olga Polizzi

British designer and hotelier Olga Polizzi - Lady Shawcross OBE - is something of a national treasure, co-founding Rocco Forte Hotels with her brother, Rocco Forte, and serving today as the company's Deputy Chairman and Director of Design. Also a former councillor, for London's Westminster City Council, Olga's personal hotel portfolio, The Polizzi Collection, includes Hotel Tresanton, The Star and Hotel Endsleigh. She talks Sophie Goodwin through the rhythms and rituals of her day.

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An Artistic Odyssey: Inspired by artist and Dalí muse, Georgette London Owens

“You are like a walking Renoir": 104-year-old artist Georgette London Owens recalls with a smile the flamboyant introduction she was given by none other than Salvador Dalí, whose muse she would go on to become. A masterful painter herself, Georgette talks Parissa Mostaedi and Guido Taroni through her extraordinary life and career.

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One Day With Anastasia Miari

In this series, we glimpse into the daily lives of artists, designers, creatives and tastemakers. Alongside raising her young family, cook and travel writer Anastasia Miari has spent the last few years cooking with grandmothers in the Mediterranean to document their authentic homegrown recipes for her new book. She talks Cabana through her flavor-filled days and the lessons she's learnt.

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Inspired by: Aubrey Beardsley

Charlotte di Carcaci explores the work of Aubrey Beardsley, whose distinctive illustrations have captivated her since childhood. She recalls the “sinuous black of his nib which, with such economy, seemed to suggest a breast, a cloak or a lock of hair” and delves into the life of the complex artist and his most notable works.

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One Day with Alfie Nickerson

In this series, we glimpse into the daily routines and rituals of artists, designers, creatives and tastemakers. Norfolk-based grower Alfie Nickerson, founder of Burnt Fen Flowers, founded his business on his grandfather's land and now supplies British-grown stems around the UK, along with a weekly floral subscription service. He talks Belle White through the rhythms of his nature-filled, commute-free day.

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One Day with John Pawson

In this series, we glimpse into the daily routines and rituals of artists, creatives and tastemakers. Architect John Pawson, master of minimalism, reveals a life as considered as his work—with projects spanning "from monasteries to teacups". Despite his love of London, he shares the moments of stillness he finds in the Cotswolds and reflects on travels through Japan and India—places of endless inspiration to his practice.

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Finders Keepers: Exceptional objects found by James Thurstan Waterworth

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.

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Finders Keepers with Charles Ede

James Richards and Charis Tyndall, directors of London-based Charles Ede—one of the world’s leading galleries for ancient art—share with Cabana the stories behind their greatest finds and the pieces they’ll keep forever.

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Finders Keepers with BBC Fake or Fortune's Philip Mould

As an eminent art dealer and host of the BBC series Fake or Fortune, Philip Mould knows a thing or two about the power and mystery of works of art. He talks Camilla Frances through two exceptional pieces — an incredibly rare find that was the “making of him" and a dynamic painting he hopes to keep forever.

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One Day with LA gallerist Joanna Williams

Based in Silverlake, Los Angeles, Joanna Williams has run her virtual - and sometimes bricks and mortar - gallery, Kneeland & Co, for 15 years, showing international artists in every medium. From the moment she wakes up and makes tea in her mermaid carafe, bedecked in real seashells, to when she rests her head on a bespoke embroidered pillow handmade by women in Lebanon, Joanna lives a fully creative life.

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One Day with Alexandre Benjamin Navet

For the third year running, Alexandre Benjamin Navet has partnered with Van Cleef & Arpels for a spectacular spring celebration in New York. The Maison's latest collections sow the seeds for the installations, 'Spring is Blooming at Rockefeller Center', which open this May. Alexandre speaks to Lucrezia Lucas from his sun-filled atelier, where spring has truly sprung.

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Finders Keepers with Patrick Seguin

For Paris-based gallerist, Patrick Seguin, collecting is both instinct and intimacy—with a hint of Jean Prouvé reverence. In this edition of Finders Keepers, he shares the stories behind two personal treasures: his greatest find, and the piece he'll keep forever.

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The Interview: Gaia Chaillet Giusti del Giardino

Gaia Chaillet Giusti lends her talent as a garden designer to many spheres: to the cinema with Luca Guadagnino, to private commissions and, ultimately, to large-scale hotel projects for clients, including Belmond. Her training as a botanist keeps her feet on the ground. She sits down with Cabana to share highlights from an illustrious career in gardens and botany.

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The Interview: Charles J. Stick

Virginia-based landscape architect Charles Stick is much-lauded for his historically sensitive, culturally aware gardens influenced by the proportions of his design masters, including Palladio and Russell Page. Charles sits down with Cabana to share highlights from an illustrious career, along with his guiltiest pleasures, greatest challenges, most memorable trips and dream dinner party guests.

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Finders Keepers with Extraordinary Collector Gordon Watson

Legendary antique dealer, collector and decorator Gordon Watson has spent more than four decades buying and selling exceptional objects. His treasure-filled home in Tangier is the ultimate stage for his museum-worthy finds, acquisitions and memories. He shares with Cabana the story of two such pieces: his greatest find and the piece he'll keep forever. 

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One Day with Oda Jaune 

In this series, we glimpse into the daily routines and rituals of artists, creatives and tastemakers. Beguiling Bulgarian painter Oda Jaune talks Sophie Goodwin through her day in a wide-ranging conversation that touches upon the compulsion to create, the thrill of surprise, dining like a medieval Queen and creating an alternative artistic universe.

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