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# The Cabana Store: Where Milan Turns Everyday Living Into an Art Form
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- Published: 2026-09-08T02:50:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-09T13:15:08.000Z
- Author: Isabelle
- Tags: #sidebar-toc, #sidebar-popular-posts, Milan, Milan Store

There is a particular kind of beauty that resists trends — the kind found in a hand-thrown ceramic bowl, a length of block-printed linen, a chair reupholstered in fabric collected on some far-flung journey. In Milan, this philosophy has a home: **Cabana Store**, the Italian magazine-turned-lifestyle-house that has spent over a decade proving that interiors, travel, and craft are just different expressions of the same instinct — the search for beauty in the details.

## A Magazine Born from Curiosity

Cabana began, as its best ideas still do, as a print magazine: three issues a year, dedicated not to sterile, showroom-perfect interiors, but to rooms that feel lived-in and personal. Its pages wander from grand ancestral homes to quiet artisan studios, from a Cotswolds garden to a lacquer workshop in Kyoto, always circling the same question — what makes a space feel like *someone*, rather than *something*?

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/IMG_7404_fffd8e70-703c-4b9d-98d8-543503d76ba1-1.jpg)](https://cabanamagazine.com/collections/cabana-magazine?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com)

That instinct — curious, well-traveled, unhurried — is what eventually gave rise to [Casa Cabana](https://cabanamagazine.com/pages/cabana-store-location?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com), the brand's collection of homewares. If Cabana is the story, Casa Cabana is what happens when you reach into the page and bring a piece of it home.

## The Woman Behind the Eye

To understand Cabana's particular brand of beauty, it helps to know where its founder, [Martina Mondadori](https://www.instagram.com/martinamondadori/?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com), came from. She is the fourth generation of the Mondadori family, Italy's storied publishing dynasty, and grew up in a Milan apartment decorated by the theatrical designer Renzo Mongiardino — a name still spoken with reverence in Italian design circles. That home left a mark that never quite faded.

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/image-4.png)](https://www.instagram.com/martinamondadori/?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com)

Her father, Leonardo Mondadori, was a collector, and much of her childhood was spent trailing him through flea markets and antiques fairs across Europe and the Middle East — an early apprenticeship in looking closely. She later studied the humanities before moving into publishing, and has described this instinct to look backward before moving forward as, in part, a distinctly Italian inheritance: a culture that has always known how to hold its past and its present in the same room.

Cabana itself was born almost by accident. After relocating to London in 2012, Mondadori grew homesick for Milan and for the Mongiardino-filled rooms of her childhood. What began as mood boards pairing English and Italian interiors became, by 2014, a magazine, launched with art director Christoph Radl and Gianluca Reina. It was less a business plan than a love letter to a particular Italian way of seeing, written from just far enough away to see it clearly.

## Casa Cabana: Objects with a Point of View

Walk through the Casa Cabana collection and it reads less like a catalogue than a travelogue rendered in cloth, porcelain, and rattan: hand-woven trays from the *Sabbia* line, tablecloths made with the textile house D'Ascoli, and a porcelain collaboration with the Florentine maker [Ginori 1735](https://www.ginori1735.com/us/en/?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com), whose floral motifs appear here in deep magenta, sage, and petrol blue.

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/image-17-1.png)](https://cabanamagazine.com/collections/dinnerware/products/ginori-martina-dinner-plate?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/image-13-1.png)](https://cabanamagazine.com/collections/table-linen/products/dascoli-adoria-tablecloth-rectangular?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/image-12-1.png)](https://cabanamagazine.com/collections/table-linen/products/dascoli-adoria-tablecloth-rectangular?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/image-11-1.png)](https://cabanamagazine.com/collections/cabana-mto-furniture?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com)

The furniture follows the same instinct for narrative over neutrality. The *Milano Slipper Chair* comes dressed in archival prints like Persia Baroque and Wisteria Verdant, while the vintage edit — sourced from estate sales across Europe and Asia — includes carved 19th-century thrones and Anglo-Indian marble consoles, each piece carrying its own small history rather than a serial number. It is a collection built for people who would rather a room tell a story than match a swatch.

## Why Italy Looks the Way It Does

Unlike French design, which tends toward one codified idea of what an apartment should look like, Italian design has never agreed on a single look. It is regional to the point of contradiction — Milan's pared-back apartments share a country, but little else, with a Tuscan farmhouse or a Sicilian palazzo's baroque theatre. If a common thread runs beneath it all, it is less a style than an attitude: a willingness to let history sit visibly in a room, rather than renovate it away.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/image-15-1.png)

[Renzo Mongiardino](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/mongiardino-article-012000?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com) is the clearest case study in what that attitude looks like. Trained as an architect in Milan but shaped early on by designing opera sets, he brought a stage designer's instinct for atmosphere into private homes — velvet, hand-painted murals, objects gathered rather than bought as a set. His teams of artisans worked in old techniques like marbling and decorative plasterwork, not to fake antiquity, but to give a room the texture of having been lived in longer than it had. It's easy to see why that instinct — abundance over restraint, atmosphere over architecture — became the DNA of Cabana.

Milan, meanwhile, has spent decades earning its place as this kind of thinking's natural capital. It carries centuries of cabinet-making and craft tradition, and every April becomes the epicentre of global design when the Salone del Mobile arrives. Opening a shop there wasn't a marketing decision so much as a homecoming — Cabana's ideas returning to the city that shaped the eye behind them.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/image-10-1.png)

## The Store on Via Borgospesso

All of this converges at [Via Borgospesso 8](https://cabanamagazine.com/pages/cabana-store-location?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com), in the heart of Milan's Quadrilatero della Moda — Cabana's physical showroom, and the closest thing the brand has to a thesis statement made tangible. It is small and tightly curated rather than a sprawling flagship: a place where the magazine seems to have stepped off the page and arranged itself into rooms you can walk through, touch, and — this being Cabana — sit down in.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/image-18-1.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bd/67/bd67dba1-7b97-4947-aa49-0d88ee138919/content/images/2026/09/image-19-1.png)

The store keeps unhurried hours (Tuesday to Saturday, closed Sundays and Mondays), fitting for a brand in no rush to move fast. Visitors describe it less as a shop than a mise-en-scène: chairs upholstered in fabrics found nowhere else, tables set as if for a dinner party mid-conversation, objects that feel chosen rather than stocked.

****Visit Cabana**  
  
Via Borgospesso 8, 20121 Milan, Italy  
📞 \[+39 02 7423 5292\](tel:0027423 5292)  
✉️ [milanostore@cabanamagazine.com](mailto:milanostore@cabanamagazine.com)  
  
****Hours**  
Tue – Sat · 10:30am – 7pm  
Sun – Mon · Closed  
For appointments outside these hours: [**WhatsApp +39 380 896 5760*](https://wa.me/message/PBSY3JWLIEBHO1?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com)  
  
[****View on Map →**](https://maps.app.goo.gl/rwiePEBstdigRa6m9?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com)

## A Certain Way of Seeing

What ties the magazine, the objects, and the Milan store together isn't a single aesthetic — Cabana's rooms range from baroque maximalism to quiet minimalism — but a shared conviction that beauty is rarely accidental. It is collected and earned over time, the way a well-loved home is furnished not in an afternoon but across years of finding the right piece in the right place.

For a magazine like *Muse*, built on the same premise — that beauty is a way of paying attention — Cabana feels less like a subject to cover than a kindred spirit: proof that a life curated with care is, itself, a work of art.

*Photography and further reading:* [*cabanamagazine.com*](https://cabanamagazine.com/?ref=muse-a-sense-of-beauty.com)

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