Out and About: Cabana Magazine Pop-up at the Mayflower Inn

Continental curation comes to Connecticut in a color-saturated collection of table linens, glassware, china, fashion, and books

Wicker, linens, and china from Cabana. Paul Arnhold glassware vase and candlesticks.

This past weekend, Cabana Magazine, based in Milan, brought their layered, textile-centric aesthetic to the Litchfield foothills with a pop-up at the storied Mayflower Inn.

The boutique hotel's parlor offered a cheerful, golden yellow embrace for Cabana Magazine's pop-up trunk show of artful goods for home and hosting.

Ginori 1735 for Cabana. Paul Arnhold vase.

The Cabana team is on tour, so to speak, to bring their Milan-based lifestyle vision abroad to discerning, daring design-lovers with a respect for heritage and craftsmanship.

Tabletops arranged with Ginori 1735 china patterns, including "Martina" for Cabana, as well as colorful linens and rattan accessories, were ornamented with posies of ephemeral seasonal flowers casually arranged in Paul Arnhold's glassware.

Hand painted Murano glass for Cabana.

A collection of Cabana publications, including their new travel guides, was crowned by deputy editor Miguel Flores-Vianna's Sabbatical 2012, a beautiful blue reproduction of his daily diary entries and Polaroids from a year of travel and reflection.

The Mayflower Inn's bookshop curated by Johnnycake Books in Salisbury

Cabana's own ready-to-wear and designer collaborations are ready for travel, with cooling cotton caftans printed in brilliant traditional patterns, accompanied by accessories showcasing modern interpretations of beading, macrame, and embroidery.

I only wish I had more time to sit and chat and absorb all the color and joie de vivre. The book signing and dinner at the Mayflower's Garden Room on Sunday look to have been a spring night to remember.

You can find the Cabana team and their treasure trove next at The Ticking Tent event on May 3.

My short visit on Monday was sun-drenched, balmy, and the perfect, inspiring way to start my week.

After over a century of hospitality, the Inn reopened in 2020 as an Auberge property, with interiors by Celerie Kemble, and seasonal farm-to-table fare for dining in.