Inside Casa Cabana, Martina Mondadori's Childhood Home

[Music] I have this memory of me coming back from school every day walking through the long Corridor very often I would hear voices coming from the living room and it was my mother with her guests with her friends entertaining always in this kind of very happy way constantly putting people at ease in such a way that when I started sort of growing older she would ask me to bring my friends and we would all sit at the table mixing Generations this I think brought me in a very natural way to creating not only a world of Cabana where we publish beautiful cozy intimate Interiors like probably this house felt but also the world we created with kazak cabana with the tabletop was never about the single plate the single place mat it was about the idea of gathering friends around the table Gathering your family and building [Music] memories I love entertaining at home nothing gives me more pleasure than setting a table obviously but welcoming friends and family and mixing people I certainly love connecting and and I think this has translated into Cabana in lots of different ways obviously everything comes from having grown up in a very open house a kind of a very welcoming place I think that's the basic philosophy behind my brand behind kazak cabana it's the idea of setting the table because you're preparing it with the thought of the people that will sit there of the conversations you'll have have being Italian plays a huge role in this creating a world of entertainment at home and because home entertaining a big table full of laughter is is a very Italian feeling small things it's the art of small things the art of entertaining at home is really an art of small things and the way I like to layer the table the way we build the collections at Cabana is by layering and this connects to the layered homes we publish in the magazine because it's in the layering I feel that the soul of a person comes out one of the founding figures of Cabana as I've said many times and I might be boring about it but is Rino mardino who played an influence when I started realizing consciously what an influence he had had on me and the way I see in tears he would come here once a week for lunch at least because in a very funny and eccentric way he didn't have a kitchen in his own house I think his big secret was to move in these very important people's lives in a very subtle and Silent way almost like a ballet that happens in front of you but you don't even realize what's happening and he would have this almost Magic Touch being able of convincing his clients that what he wanted to do what was they wanted for their own house and I think that's a real art he had a few things that were fundamental to every single project he did the first one was symmetry I'm sure if he could have named the Maestro from the past it would have been paladio and then light it was theater light if you think about it how you see it on stage it's what creates atmosphere and that was crucial to him and also a sense of mixing high and low the fireplace is a perfect example of his idea of make belief because nothing is real that's not real marble it's painted glass it's not real Stones it's painted wood to make it look like Stone but in that way he could achieve any look he wanted because it was all based on his imagination his knowledge of history and the incredible respect he had for Artisans Artisans are key to everything we do with kazak cabana there isn't a single objects that goes on our website that doesn't have behind it hours of love labor hand work that's the beauty of it for me craftsmanship and Artisans means that each object will never be exactly the same as another and in that lays its beauty a lot has happened in the last 5 years in my life losing my mother was a huge huge moment of sadness because we had such a close relationship but there's one thing that I will say which someone I very much trust and that played a role in my life said to me after my mom died and she said to me you know I believe especially for a girl you are born twice once when you're born and the second time when your mother dies because that's the moment you really grow up you don't have any protection left no one is there physically everything suddenly comes to you in ways that are imperceptible in moments of your daily routine that you don't even realize and you think you do things you act you talk you behave you react to things that happen in your life in a different way with a different maturity so I think that's where I am right now and she you know she lives on I really like to say that Cabana is a note to her she lives in the way I set the table she lives in the way that I look at things and the things she taught me in the last few years of her life she would see me walk into this house and every time she would be like okay what's coming next what's your next inspiration that comes from this from this house and she was right the collection we're coming out with now which is our 10th Anniversary Collection so it's obviously a very important one the Simplicity of the pattern on the tablecloth mixed with plates that the ginori plates that have the colors and a bit of the motifs of her dining room the use of very simple straw place mats but with a Twist is lots of different Inspirations and ingredients from all these years of Cabana but most importantly from you know my childhood with her that's all I know to [Music] her e

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Length: 7min 54sec (474 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2024