Tag archives: Steve Thompson

Real New Neighbors
By Richard Mineards   |   April 23, 2024

Real Housewives of New Jersey alumna Dina Cantin is our rarefied enclave’s latest celebrity resident. She and her husband David Cantin have just snapped up a nearly 6,000 square foot five bedroom, five-and-a-half bathroom Tuscan-style villa for $16 million in Montecito. The tony twosome relocated to the Left Coast in 2015, settling in Malibu. Originally […]

Art in the Cabana
By Richard Mineards   |   September 12, 2023

Funk Zone dynamic interior design duo Steve and Caroline Thompson held a double celebration at Cabana Home when they celebrated the opening of the new West Coast boutique of the historic wallpaper and furniture maker Thibaut and a new exhibition of art works by Chris Trueman, presented by Los Angeles dealer Edward Cella. Thibaut, which […]

Honoring the Bucket Brigade
By Lynda Millner   |   July 19, 2018

Caroline and Steve Thompson, who own Cabana Home at 111 Santa Barbara Street in the Funk Zone, gave one of their artists’ receptions with a new twist. A portion of the sales from artist Robyn Geddes’s works will be donated to refresh supplies and spirits of the Bucket Brigade. In case you haven’t heard of […]

Cement Not Taken for Granite
By Richard Mineards   |   July 5, 2018

Cabana Home, the interior design store owned by Steve and Caroline Thompson, was socially gridlocked when an old friend, artist Robyn Geddes, launched his latest exhibition of 21 works. Robyn, who I knew in New York in the late 1970s when he worked at Andy Warhol’s Factory – Andy’s East 66th townhouse was just a […]

Cabana Home
By Lynda Millner   |   February 1, 2018

Besides being able to furnish your digs at Cabana Home, you can find interesting art for the walls. Caroline and Steve Thompson, who own the business, continually hold openings for various artists from up and down the coast. The latest wine reception was for Robert Stone, who was raised in Santa Barbara and is now […]