“We need more parties. The world needs more parties. People need to break bread with each other.“
Produced by Cabana FILMS.
Credits
Direction, camera and editing: Luca Cèpparo
Audio: Anna Khromova
Location: New York, US
Inspirations
Step inside one of the most remarkable galleries in Paris.
Housing an extraordinary collection of fine art and antiques, Galerie Kugel – established in 1958 by renowned art dealer, Jacques Kugel – resides within Hôtel Collot, an hôtel particulier on Paris’ Left Bank.
The vast, beautiful building provides a gallery space as unique and photogenic as the museum-worthy collection contained within.
The gallery is still run by the Kugel Family: brothers Nicolas and Alexis Kugel, who represent the fifth generation of a family of art dealers, and Laura Kugel, who represents the sixth generation.
A mesmerising tour through collected beauty at its most refined.
Cabana Magazine is a biannual interiors and decorative arts publication, exploring the intimate relationship each person has with interiors.
Produced by Cabana FILMS.
Credits
Direction, camera and editing: Luca Cèpparo
Audio: Louis Gallet
Location: Paris, France
One of England’s most exalted addresses and famously the setting for the film, Brideshead Revisited, Castle Howard is instantly recognisable the world over.
Built at the turn of the 18th century, the Yorkshire castle was designed by titans of English architecture, John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, and bears all the hallmarks and secrets of their mastery.
“It’s a journey into beauty. Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there’s beauty,” says Nicholas Howard, whose family have lived at Castle Howard for more than 300 years.
Cabana Magazine is a biannual interiors and decorative arts publication, exploring the intimate relationship each person has with interiors.
Produced by Cabana FILMS.
Credits
Direction and editing: Luca Cèpparo
Camera: Luca Cèpparo and Erik Winterstam
Audio: Erik Winterstam
Location: Castle Howard, York, UK
“For me, walls are always rather loaded, decorated. For me, walls are dressed so you can put fewer things on them. That’s really, let’s say, a professional distortion of mine.”
Step inside the resplendent Milan home of textile designer, muralist and Arjumand’s World founder, Idarica Gazzoni.
Cabana Magazine is a biannual interiors and decorative arts publication, exploring the intimate relationship each person has with interiors.
Produced by Cabana FILMS.
Credits
Direction, camera and editing: Luca Cèpparo
Audio: Fabrizio Foti
Location: Milan, Italy
Follows a female student in Tehran who was hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defense against a rapist. For a pardon and after seven years in prison, she would have had to retract her testimony.
Director: Steffi Niederzoll
Year: 2023
IMDB rating: 7,6
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A mesmeric journey through thousands of years of Greek art, history and culture, guided by George Manginis, director of the extraordinary Benaki Museum in Athens.
From 3000-year-old jewellery to intricate tapestries, arresting sculptures and even the home of literary icon, Patrick Leigh Fermour, the Benaki holds treasures of unfathomable beauty and importance.
Cabana Magazine is a biannual interiors and decorative arts publication, exploring the intimate relationship each person has with interiors.
Produced by Cabana FILMS.
Credits
Direction and editing: Luca Cèpparo
Camera: Luca Cèpparo – Erik Winterstam
Audio: Erik Winterstam
Location: Athens, Greece
The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang and his lifelong obsession: the Sky Ladder.
Directors: Kevin Macdonald
Year: 2016
IMDB rating: 7,3
“Good morning Michael, I would like to thank you for the day we spent together for Cabana. It was really hard to select your audio and the words for the video. Everything you said was so interesting and inspiring. I hope you appreciate everything I decided to insert in the editing. It’s been a wonderful experience of life, really. Thanks again! Luca”
“Hello Luca, how nice to hear from you. I was just going to start to look for you. Thank you so much for doing such a beautiful job. You are very gifted and made such a perfect product. I love what you did , I feel it is honest and truthful. It was a pleasure to meet you and work together.
My very best
Michael “
Produced by Cabana FILMS.
Credits
Direction, camera and editing: Luca Cèpparo
Audio: Jon Russell
Location: West Cornwall, Connecticut – United States