A lavishly illustrated tale, rich in detail, passion and valor, Umberto Pasti's remarkable new book is a must-read that will take you on a captivating odyssey through collecting and beauty, says Madison Cox.  

Emma Becque and Isabel Bronts peep inside Louise Snouck Hurgronje's 17th-century color-drenched canal house in Amsterdam, finding a space filled with theatrical décor, vintage finds and a traditional 'gezellig' white-tiled kitchen.

Emma Becque enters antique dealer Anouk Beerents' striking 19th-century canal house in East Amsterdam, where her collection of antique gilded mirrors accents a clean blend of mid-century modern furniture, metallics, and miniature marvels.

In London's Notting Hill, former Rose Uniacke designer, Rachel Aisling Walker, creates the perfect retreat for a writer in one of her first projects since striking out on her own. The cozy top floor apartment blends Victorian charm with modern elegance and vintage finds. Emma Becque takes a look inside.

Weston Park was the ancestral home of England's Earls of Bradford, where centuries of decorative arts and family legacy come alive. This countryside estate, now gifted to the Weston Park Foundation, is a rich tapestry of historic English interiors, brimming with stories. Cabana takes a peek inside.

A land where the tamed and wild coexist, Dylan Lewis' remarkable home, studio and gardens in South Africa attest to the symbiotic relationship between art and nature. Emma Becque and Isabel Bronts take us on a journey through the sculptor's slice of paradise in Stellenbosch.

Viscount and Viscountess, Alexander and Eliza Newport, are planting the seeds for generations in more ways than one. The young couple is restoring their Bradford Estate, creating communities and tracking lost ancestral heirlooms. Their countryside retreat is blossoming in more ways than one - step inside for an exclusive peek.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.