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. 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.

Stockholm-based travel and design writer Nicole Kavander shares her favorite places in the Swedish capital, where historic streets, contemporary design and easy access to nature sit side by side. From neighborhood cafés and classic Swedish lunches to candlelit jazz bars, galleries and archipelago escapes, Nicole's hyperlocal insider's guide captures a personal side of Stockholm.