Other Lives, Other Stories

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.

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.

Over five decades, Jeremy King has transformed London’s restaurant scene, creating glamorous meeting places where royalty, rock stars, artists and politicians mingle with cabbies, footballers and photographers. From Le Caprice and The Ivy to The Wolseley and Simpson’s in the Strand, Sophie Goodwin traces his remarkable career and considers the resilience, instinct and appetite for reinvention behind it.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

Spain's Baix Emporda, where the Pyrenean foothills meet the Costa Brava, has long drawn artists and poets to its medieval villages, golden light and quiet shores. The most notable of these is Salvador Dalí but beyond Figueres, Cadaqués and Pubol lies a deeper culture: Iberian settlements, Romanesque chapels, and farmhouse tables. Emporda native Pablo Rovira, founder of Viu Emporda, shares an insider's guide.