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ROOMS & GARDENS

Escape into a highly curated collection of inspiring rooms and gardens, from the pages of Cabana Magazine and beyond. Explore interiors and architecture, large and small, grand and humble, united by soul and creative vision.

'Meet me in the secret stateroom': Amsterdam's luckiest tenants

Blaring classical music and a dinging clock stream through the mazed walls of Ingrid and Robert Labadie's 17th-century stately home. Conforming to the building's regal status, Robert, the perfect host, serves guests Wedgewood-filled teacups and artisanal patisseries within his sweeping space, filled with trinkets and art. Emma Becque and Isabel Bronts take a tour.

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A Cup Full of History: The Most Beautiful Tea Shop in Town

The quaint Dutch town of Franeker hides an aromatic secret: a beautifully atmospheric tea and coffee house with a façade dating back to 1745. Cabana takes a tour of this silent sentinel.

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A Designer's Greek Revival Home in the Hudson Valley

In the 25 years that milliner and fashion designer, James Coviello, has owned his one-acre property in the Hudson Valley, he’s attended to every nook and cranny, reaching into his expertise of 19th-century domestic structures. Liz Gardner and Taylor Hall O'Brien takes a tour, and discover how the house has become James' calling card.

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Inside Casa Cabana, Martina Mondadori's childhood home

Join Cabana for an access-all-areas tour of Editor-in-Chief Martina Mondadori's childhood home in Milan. The storied apartment, designed by Renzo Mongiardino, is still the beating heart of Cabana, and in many ways Cabana's earliest - and most enduring - inspiration.

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A Room Full of Stars: the world's oldest (and most beautiful) planetarium

Hidden behind a pocket-sized door in a doll's house-like building in the sleepy Dutch town of Franeker is a room so unique that even a King was star-struck. Emma Becque and Isabel Bronts explore the extraordinary world created by wool weaver turned astronomer, Eise Eisinga.

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A Venetian's Retreat: Toto Bergamo Rossi's home in Croatia

Chris Wallace visits a Croatian island with Venetian heritage for a tour of Toto Bergamo Rossi's atmospheric retreat in Lopud, set in the ruins of a 15th century nunnery.

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A House of Surprises: An Antique Dealer's Modernist Home

In a quiet wooded grove in Minnesota, Belgian-born antique dealer, Claire Steyaert, has filled her Bauhaus-inspired Modernist home with a lifetime's worth of art and antiques. Taylor Hall O'Brien meets Claire for champagne, croissants and a conversation about the joy of collecting.

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A House of Endless Curiosities: An Artist's Textile-filled Home in Norfolk

House Tour: Rose Cholmondeley explores North Runcton Lodge, a beautiful, formerly derelict house in Norfolk that artist-owner, Kate Giles, first visited as a child. Rose discovers the courage, vision and artistic alchemy it's taken for Kate, and husband Tim Ellis, to conjure magic in this once dying house.

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A Fairytale Folly in Suffolk

Alan Dodd's tiny 17th-century folly in Suffolk, High House, is a mellow Dutch Carolean pepper-pot of a house, like something out of an old English folktale, discovers Cosmo Brockway. Join Cosmo for a tour.

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An Art Dealer's Opulent House in Sleepy Gouda

In sleepy yet beautiful Gouda, stands one of the oldest, authentic Dutch houses in existence dating back to 1740. Its sumptuous, operatic interiors have been painstaking restored to enhance and celebrate its history, masterminded by owners, Mark Broch and Geert Post, art dealers, historians and collectors.

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Kelley's Kabin: Seventy-Nine Summers in Rural Wisconsin

Eighty-year-old Bill Carter has spent 79 memory-filled summers at Kelley's Kabin, a collection of atmospheric log cabins overlooking the Flambeau River in rural Wisconsin. Bill gives Taylor Hall O'Brien a tour, sharing the cabins' history and stories of summers past.

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Castle Howard: Where Yorkshire Rivals Rome

"I have seen gigantic places before, but never a sublime one," wrote Sir Horace Walpole of Yorkshire's Castle Howard. As Cabana Issue 20 exclusively reveals Remy Renzullo's redesign of the private quarters at Castle Howard, Charlotte di Carcaci explores the architectural history of one of England's most exalted addresses.

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A Living House: Maison Bodega

Maison Bodega, a 1920s mansion in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a storied history, is the culmination of all things nearest and dearest to multi-hyphenate, Liz Gardner. Taylor Hall O’Brien meets Liz for a tour, discovering a house alive with creativity.

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A Complex Restoration

At the end of a steep road, with views across the seaport of Kavala, stands a former Madrasa built by the Ottoman General, Mohammed Ali Pasha. Ari Kellerman takes a tour, discovering a confluence of cultures and one woman’s determined restoration. 

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Paris in Minnesota: An Extraordinary House Tour

In an inauspicious corner of Minnesota lies an extraordinarily well preserved piece of French history: a remarkable, entirely intact Parisian interior from the 18th-century. How did it get there? Taylor Hall O'Brien investigates.

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House Tour: Christophe Gollut's Retreat in Gran Canaria

In a village on the east coast of Gran Canaria, some hundred kilometers from Africa, lies the colorful winter retreat of Swiss decorator, Christophe Gollut. Ella Windsor is given a tour.

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