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.

The Interview: Peter Hinwood

Peter Hinwood has come a long way since playing Rocky in the 1970s classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In the decades since, he has created museum-worthy homes in London and Morocco and now shares with Cabana his experiences, inspirations and obsessions. 

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The Interview: Markham Roberts

Acclaimed US designer Markham Roberts creates timeless interiors that encapsulate the very best of classic North American style, mixing antique and contemporary furniture in rooms that are both laid-back and sophisticated. Markham shares with Cabana his greatest challenges, happiest memories, favorite antique fairs and career-defining moments. 

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The Interview: Luis Laplace

Argentine architect, Luis Laplace - head designer of design studio, Laplace - has designed elegant, arresting spaces all over the globe. Read on to see beautiful Laplace interiors, and discover Luis' greatest challenges and guiltiest pleasures.  

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The Interview: Deborah Needleman

Renowned New York-based magazine editor turned basket maker, Deborah Needleman, shares her life-changing decision and personal challenges ahead of a very special collaboration with Cabana.

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The Interview: Veere Grenney

Esteemed New Zealand-born UK-based decorator, Veere Grenney, is beloved for his timeless, classically elegant interiors and sophisticated, cohesive style. After decades at the top, Veere sits down with Cabana to reflect on his career journey thus far - from selling antiques to fund his first shop, to the homes he has curated around the world - and shares some of his greatest challenges, favorite fabrics and tips for harmonious living.

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Inspired by: Lina Bo Bardi

Benjamin Weaver explores the life, style and considerable legacy of Italian-born Lina Bo Bardi, the architect behind Sao Paulo's extraordinary 'Glass House' and the pioneer of a new Brazilian Modernism.

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The Interview: Will Cooper

Texas-born New York-based designer, Will Cooper, is the Chief Creative Officer of acclaimed design studio, ASH NYC, and the owner and designer behind some of Cabana's favorite hotels.

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The Magic and Mystery of Renzo Mongiardino

Renzo Mongiardino: the once-in-a-generation Italian design master whose influence on Cabana could scarcely be more significant. Sara Pierdonà goes in search of the mystery and magic behind Mongiardino's mastery.

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Inspired by: David Hicks

For those who wish to see the very best of English design, David Hicks’ incomparable interiors are an excellent place to start, writes design consultant, critic and Editor-in-Chief of The London List, Benjamin Weaver.

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Inspired by: Robert Kime

In tribute to the late great Robert Kime, one of Cabana’s true inspirations, we have gathered our favorite interviews with, videos of, and interiors by, the inimitable antiquarian and decorator.

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The Interview: Lisa Fine

Textile designer, Lisa Fine, lives between New York and Dallas in homes adorned with many of her own fabrics and wallpapers, inspired by her travels in India and the Middle East. Lisa shares her greatest challenges, dream dinner guests and unorthodox childhood.  

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The Interview: Erdem

Erdem Moralioglu launched his eponymous label in 2005 and quickly took the fashion world by storm with his dramatic florals and elegant, highly crafted designs. In the years since he has won numerous accolades, and in 2020 was awarded a MBE for services to fashion. Erdem shares with Cabana his love of Japan, dream dinner party companions, favorite gifts and greatest challenges.

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Inspired by: Federico Forquet

The sublime style, enduring allure and charming humility of couturier turned interior and garden designer, Federico Forquet, makes him one of Italy's greatest, yet most discreet, talents, finds Francesca Simpson.

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Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda

Widely credited with launching the career of Renzo Mongiardino, nonogenarian Italian Countess, Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda, is a tastemaker and fashion icon through and through. Francesca Simpson explores her unique joie de vivre, spectacular homes in Paris and Vistorta, and unfaltering personal style.

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Inspired by: Gabriella Crespi

Effortlessly stylish, creatively prolific, daring and original, Gabriella Crespi was truly one-of-a-kind. As a designer, she was a visionary, but what about the woman behind the work? Cabana speaks to her daughter, Elisabetta Crespi, about her luminous mother and their industrious life, both in public and private.

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Inspired by: Carlo Scarpa

Venetian architect, Carlo Scarpa, explored the expressive potential of light to magnificent effect. Even his earliest projects show his distinctive artistic language: a complex system of shapes, colors and materials, with a focus on ornamentation and the natural world, finds landscape designer, Elizabeth Tyler. 

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