Alfonso Pérez-Ventana’s Madrid apartment feels surprisingly detached from the city below. Mature trees rise outside the windows, plants spill across a small terrace, and with the doors left open, indoors and outdoors begin to blur. It is an apt setting for the landscape designer, whose work is defined by observation, patience and an instinctive understanding of place. In conversation with Alessandro Laraspata, Pérez-Ventana reflects on the landscapes that shaped his childhood, the lessons he learned at Madrid’s Royal Botanical Garden and why the best things in life are rarely finished.

Camilla Frances spends the day with antique and vintage hunters, Brooke Metcalfe and Sarah Hiscox, whose keen eyes for design and nose for a special find led them to establish Source London in 2021. With their special curation for Cabana Vintage now live exclusively, the pair talk Camilla through their lives, both personal and professional, over one long, inspiring day together.

"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.

Much of Lazio is often eclipsed by the grandeur of Rome, but beyond it lies a region of abundant treasures, perhaps none more compelling than Viterbo, just north of the capital. With its utterly unspoiled countryside, cozy trattorias and natural thermal springs, it's a much-loved escape for Romans. Victoria Locke shares an insider's guide.

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.

American architect Thomas A. Kligerman is celebrated for his classically inspired houses that draw on the architectural traditions of the American Coast. The author of Summer by the Sea, he has long championed a timeless approach to design rooted in craftsmanship, landscape and place. Here, he shares his favourite corners of Rhode Island, from historic inns and antique shops, to coastal gardens and beloved local restaurants.

Global event planner Michelle Rago has spent her career travelling the world in pursuit of beauty, atmosphere and decorative objects. But in the Delaware River Valley, where she now lives, she enjoys finding inspiration closer to home. Here, Michelle shares her favourite antiquing haunts across this quietly rich corner of the American Northeast, from river towns and historic homes to farms, studios and hidden treasures.

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.

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.  

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.

The tiny nation of Montenegro is the unsung gem of the Adriatic coast, an ancient land where writers, poets, intrepid travelers, and adventurers have long been seduced by mountains, monasteries, secret beaches and medieval fortresses. Fabrizia Caracciolo shares an insider's guide for a memorable weekend in Montenegro, which is now immortalised in a new book, Secret Montenegro, by Ivana Maksimovic.

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.