In Cabana Issue 22, we explored how Minnesota's Batcher Block Opera House holds time differently: how its past doesn’t recede but moves alongside us, shaping the present in gestures both subtle and deeply felt. That story opened a door, and now we peer through to what waits on the other side. From the same terrain comes the Opera House's next iteration. Liz Gardner follows its passage from preservation to possibility.

"Do you believe in signs?" asks South African ceramicist Cara Bauermeister, whose return to clay began with two fragments of buried porcelain unearthed in the garden of her Somerset West home. Emma Becque visits the artist's farmhouse and studio, where a lifelong fascination with craftsmanship, collecting and the natural world has shaped both the interiors and her coveted ceramics.

Artist Michael McGregor sat down with Cabana to talk about his six-month residency at Casa Monti, a five-star hotel in one of Rome's oldest artisan districts, and the artwork that grew out of it: hand-painted walls, works on paper, textiles and ceramics, coming together in Suite 203. He talks Julie Haëntjens through the shift from letterhead drawings to a room-sized homage to Roman myth, the research that fed it, and the hidden details worth slowing down for.

Built within Bruce W. Carpenter's Sanur compound, this Peranakan-inspired garden library brings together almost five decades of collecting, research and scholarship under one roof. Part archive, part gallery and part workplace, it reflects one man's lifelong engagement with the art, history and material culture of the Indonesian archipelago. Emma Becque takes a tour.

Behind the unassuming façade of a Victorian house in Buffalo lies an extraordinary world where architecture, art and memory converge. Artist Dennis Maher has transformed The Fargo House into a continually evolving living installation, revealing how forgotten buildings and discarded objects can become vessels for imagination, beauty and renewal. He talks to Daniel Scheffler.

British landscape designer Elizabeth Tyler transformed a historic Cotswolds manor’s grounds into a sequence of distinct yet interconnected spaces shaped by season and atmosphere. She talks to Busola Evans.

With the help of interior architect and designer Carolina Maluhy, entrepreneur Julia Hartogs transformed a tired mid-century townhouse in São Paulo, Brazil, into a serene retreat layered with heirlooms, Brazilian modernism and a deeply personal history.

For returning clients, New York and Palm Beach based interior designer David Lucido transformed a modest guest house into a transportive retreat using floral fabrics, painted floors and a palette drawn from sundrenched destinations. He talks to Busola Evans.

Built between 1902 and 1930 as the biggest and most innovative hospital in Barcelona, the Sant Pau Complex also stood out for its design which became a symbol of Catalan Modernism. Rebeca Vaisman and Isabel Bronts tour the colourful, ornamented and gardened pavilions inside this architectural patrimony.

Exclusive: Rome-based designer Achille Salvagni, collector and founder of his eponymous studio, talks Cabana through his vision for Le Graal, an exciting new hospitality project – spanning a member's club in Rome and a hotel in Cortina – where design and craftsmanship are omnipresent.

Reduced in scale and intensified in detail, these interiors unfold behind glass cases, curio boxes, and cabinet doors, where doll houses, jewels, waxwork objects, and images are made for close looking. This edit steps inside the miniature, where craftsmanship expands as scale constricts. Read on for miniature marvels from the World of Cabana.

A century-old summer cottage on Narragansett Bay, published in architect Thomas A. Kligerman's new book, reveals how generations of one family have layered memory, ritual, and collected beauty into a deceptively modest retreat where antiques, mid-century finds, and maritime history coexist in effortless harmony.

An apartment in West London's Holland Park, long since divided from its original ambitions, has become the testing ground for a conservator-turned-dealer, where friendship, repair, and the steady passing on of objects shape an interior in continual flux. Emma Becque steps inside Adam Calvert-Bentley's antique-filled home.

 From the shopfronts of Biba to the founding of Osborne & Little, the late artist and tastemaker Anthony Little helped define the visual language of 1960s London. As Dreweatts brings the contents of his Chelsea home to auction, Anthony's vivacious life comes back into focus. Join Cabana for an exclusive tour of his London home. 

What does one give a princess who already has a palace? In 1840, Prince Filippo Andrea Doria Pamphilj gave Mary Talbot a bathroom. Opened to the public for the first time, the Nymphaeum of Diana is a compact fantasia of allegorical décor hidden inside one of Rome’s grandest houses. Emma Becque and Isabel Bronts take a tour.  

Across São Tomé Principe’s volcanic hills, abandoned plantation estates (roças) lie abandoned, relics of the African island state's once-prosperous cocoa empire. It's a place where colonial ambition, coerced labor, and sudden independence collided. Crumbling verandas, silent machinery, and encroaching forest reveal the island's layered passage from grandeur to ruin, finds Harrison Thane.