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.

In Good Hands: A Young Antique Dealer's Elegant Rental in Holland Park

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.

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House Tour: Inside the Collected World of 'swinging 60s' artist Anthony Little

 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. 

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Inside the Extraordinary Secret Bathroom of Diana at Palazzo Doria Pamphilj

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.  

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Explore the Intriguing Abandoned Roças of São Tomé & Principe

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.

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An Art Deco Pied-à-Terre in Paris’s Palais Royal designed by Necchi Architecture

In an 18th-century building in Paris’s Palais Royal district, Charlotte Albert and Alexis Lamesta, founders of Necchi Architecture, have returned a former architect’s studio to the drawing board, transforming it into two apartments for Pied à Terre Paris. Cabana has the first tour.

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House Tour: Inside an unpublished Renzo Mongiardino-designed villa in Milan

Step inside this 1930s villa in Milan, designed by Renzo Mongiardino and first photographed by Guido Taroni for the book, The Interiors and Architecture of Renzo Mongiardino: A Painterly Vision, published by Cabana. The ground floor of the villa remains as photogenic as ever, seen in updated photographs by Joanna Maclennan as the apartment provides a fitting background for Cabana's newest homewares collection.

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Inside a 'white box' apartment transformed into an Anglo-Italian dream

The Stage of Your Life: In an exclusive extract from the now sold-out Issue 24 of Cabana Magazine, interior designer Giuseppe Porcelli tells Camilla Frances how he transformed his once-featureless 1930s pied-à-terre in Milan into a dramatic Anglo-Italian dream.

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A Grand Family House in Sydney: English Elegance meets Australian Cool

This seven bedroom Vaucluse residence draws its inspiration from two continents. By combining antique character and meticulous detailing with light-filled spaces, designer Sophie Davies has created a refined yet liveable home for a young family.

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Cabana Curates: Green rooms

Going Green: A colour with a long memory and an even longer reach, scroll on for some serious interior inspiration with green-hued rooms that demonstrate the color’s persistent hold on the decorative imagination. Discover some of our favorite interior interpretations from the World of Cabana and beyond.

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Cabana curates: Decorating with Pink

From fuchsia drapery in a 15th-century Normandy villa to a powder-pink bathroom in the British countryside and Lee Radziwill’s New York magenta dining room, pink has played a significant role in interiors across multiple eras and styles. Read on for our nod to Saint Valentine with an inspiring edit of pink rooms from the World of Cabana and beyond.

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Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin design new carriage for British Pullman

Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin unveil their latest design project – Celia, a glamorous private carriage aboard the British Pullman, conceived as a cinematic world on rails. Inspired by 1930s theatre and realised by master British artisans, the new events carriage invites guests to dine, dream and drift through the English countryside. 

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An 18th-century house in Charleston drenched in rich color

Clients who arrived requesting neutrality left with a red-lacquered study and a green dining room in this 1749 Charleston house. Designer Angie Hranowsky’s response to their evolving taste and the demands of a multigenerational household proves that even the smallest spaces can be efficient and exude character. Emma Becque takes a tour.

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Explore an antique dealer's exceptional 16th-century Guild House in Belgium

A teenage romance led antique dealer Johan Van Dijck and artist Kaat Van Doren towards a shared life shaped by objects, history, and attention. In their 16th-century guild house in Mechelen, Belgium, five floors unfold as the record of a life spent looking. Emma Becque and Isabel Bronts take a tour.

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Cabana Curates: Library rooms

From a palatial bibliotheque to a colour-drenched contemporary reading bay and a secret library in the heart of Casablanca, rooms shaped by books reveal the character of a space. Formal, playful, sparse, or indulgent, libraries bring depth and personality to the home. Read on for library rooms from the World of Cabana and beyond.

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Explore a Dolomites retreat fit for a leading textile designer

In Cortina, high in the Italian Dolomites, Arjumand’s World founder Idarica Gazzoni has transformed a new build apartment into an atmospheric retreat inspired by antique furniture, silk veiled walls and the meeting of East and West.

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Inside Matriarca: A 19th-century townhouse in Porto, designed by Thurstan

Join Fiona McCarthy for a tour of one of Porto's most beautiful new hospitality venues, an elegant, light-filled 19th-century townhouse overlooking the city’s historic Carlos Alberto Square. It's now home to Matriarca, the latest venture from the wine-making Symington family, designed by London-based studio, Thurstan. 

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