Amazones

Built within Bruce 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.

Athens-based travel writer Kate Lough slips into the slower, wilder side of the Greek island of Folegandros while staying at Spina, an off-grid osteria-with-rooms on the island's remote south-western coast.

When Märta Måås-Fjetterström died, she left behind hundreds of designs waiting to be woven. More than 80 years later, the drawers in the Swedish textile designer's studio overlooking the sea at Båstad continue to yield new rugs, many of them emerging from sketches she never saw realised.  

It's a big year for Matisse with shows in Barcelona, Chicago and Paris. The latter is a landmark exhibition, which spotlights the industrious last years of the artist's life when he moved to the small Provençal village of Saint Paul de Vence. Elizabeth Bennett shares a postcard from this pocket of Provence, where the art scene is still thriving.

In this series, we ask antique dealers and collectors to share the stories of two special objects that have passed through their hands: their greatest 'find' and the piece they'll keep forever. This week, it's the turn of London-based interior designer, Rachel Aisling Walker.

Behind the unassuming façade of a Victorian house in Buffalo lies an extraordinary world where architecture, art and memory converge. Artist Dennis Maher has transformed The Fargo House into a continually evolving living installation, revealing how forgotten buildings and discarded objects can become vessels for imagination, beauty and renewal. He talks to Daniel Scheffler.

For Stephen Sills, a memorable table begins with thoughtful composition. At his home in Bedford, New York, the renowned designer invites Cabana to the table, sharing four summer settings and the simple ideas that shape his approach to entertaining.

Belgian designer Nathan Bruckner, co-founder of Manhattan-based design studio Casalta, grew up in Brussels, a city that shaped his discerning eye for architecture, antiques and craftsmanship. He shares an insider's guide to the city he called home for many years, revealing the galleries, shops, restaurants and hidden corners that make the Belgian capital an endlessly rewarding place to explore.

Cabana’s latest travel guide, A Weekend in Greece, drew London’s Hellenic and Greece-loving crowd to Pavilion Press in Chelsea for a lively launch breakfast, where editors, tastemakers and longtime Greece insiders gathered to support the magazine's newest, and beautifully curated, travel companion.

For returning clients, New York and Palm Beach based interior designer David Lucido transformed a modest guest house into a transportive retreat using floral fabrics, painted floors and a palette drawn from sundrenched destinations. He talks to Busola Evans.

British landscape designer Elizabeth Tyler transformed a historic Cotswolds manor’s grounds into a sequence of distinct yet interconnected spaces shaped by season and atmosphere. She talks to Busola Evans.

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.