WORLD OF CABANA

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.

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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A Peruvian Love Story

She was born in Wales but fell in love with Peru. Ever since Mari Solari discovered Peru's rich landscapes and traditions, she became an advocate for Peruvian craftsmanship. Rebeca Vaisman visits her home in Lima.

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The Castle and the Artist: A 100-year-old Bavarian Mystery

A missing masterpiece, a Bavarian castle, one of Germany's oldest noble families and an exciting British artist: Camilla Frances discovers a 100-year-old Bavarian mystery and its highly creative resolution.

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For the Love of Knole

In the county of Kent, not far from London, lies one of England's Great Houses, Knole, most famous as the setting for Virginia Woolf's 1928 book, Orlando, written about the childhood home of her lover, Vita Sackville-West. Ashley Hicks explores Knole.

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Living in Pattern

Inspired by David Hicks’ masterful use of pattern, we’re revisiting some of the most extraordinary patterned interiors from the World of Cabana and Cabana Magazine. From grand palazzos with silk-adorned walls to artist’s cottages draped with fabric and Mexican haciendas with kaleidoscopic floors, it's time to get inspired.

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