Patricia Daunt

Sir Timothy and Lady Daunt



		ANKARA: PALACES OF DIPLOMACY by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg Cornucopia Issue 39, 2008 'A new capital called for new architecture. Ankara in the 1920s and 1930s produced a fascinating diversity of styles as the foreign powers decided to abandon their buildings on the Bosphorus and set up anew. Patricia Daunt, who came to know the embassies when her husband served as British envoy in the late 1980s, picks her favourites, while Fritz von der Schulenburg captures them on camera. Featured Embassies: The British, French, Italian, Austrian, Russian, Belgian, Polish, German, Hungarian and Swiss Embassies. View highlights Issue39 Quintessentially English, the green walls and silk curtains and the low stripey sofas in the drawing room are from Patricia Daunt's days at the British Embassy.

		ISTANBUL: PALACES OF DIPLOMACY part 1 by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg Cornucopia Issue 5, 1993/94 'The former embassies of Ottoman Istanbul, like opulent country houses in national costume, have more of a consular role today but their vast chambers still evoke the diplomatic rituals of their nineteenth century heyday. In the first of two articles Patricia Daunt traces the history of these spectacular winter palaces, and Fritz von der Schulenburg assembles a unique photographic record of the treasures they contain.' Featured Embassies: The British, French, Russian, American and Swedish Embassies, The Embassy of the Netherlands, and The Venetian Palace. View highlights Issue 5

		ISTANBUL: PALACES OF DIPLOMACY part 2 by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg Cornucopia Issue 6, 1994 'When the summer heat made cool-headed diplomacy impossible, the European ambassadors to the Sublime Porte and the viceroys of Egypt retired to remarkable residences lining the Bosphorus. Today these noble monuments languish, weathered and overgrown. Patricia Daunt probes their rich diplomatic history, while Fritz von der Schulenburg captures on camera the faded glory of the buildings and their grounds.' Featured Residences: The Austro-Hungarian, Egyptian, Italian, Spanish, and German Summer Residences. View highlights Issue 6



		THE JEWEL BOX by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Simon Upton Cornucopia Issue 7, 1994/95 'The Curuksulu Mehmet Pasha Yali once saw diplomatic service as the home of the ambassador Muharrem Nuri Birgi. Successively remodelled in the past, today it is beautifully preserved, its restrained exterior and spacious interior evincing the classical age of Ottoman style, and its clifftop position providing timeless views. It is a house of memories, where only Freya Stark was permitted breakfast in bed, and where before Nuri Bey's time the beautiful Belkis Hanim held court in a cloud of pink gauze.' View highlights Issue 7

		THE VIZIER'S RETREAT by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Jerome Darblay and Simon Upton Cornucopia Issue 8, 1995 'The Kibrisli Yali is one of the largest old summerhouses to survive on the Bosphorus. Its rambling architecture mirrors the fluctuating fortunes of the statesman who gave this house its name, and his colourful heirs.' The Kibrisli Yali is featured in At Home in Turkey

		WATER'S EDGE by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Simon Upton Cornucopia Issue 10, 1996 'Hekimbasi Salih Efendi was the last Chief Physician to the Ottoman court. He was also a scholar and reformer. But plants were his passion, and the grounds of his yali were filled with the scent of carnations, lilies and peonies. The gardens have gone, but the house lives on.' View highlights Issue 10

		THE GREAT YALI OF ZEKI PASHA by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Jean Marie del Moral and Simon Upton Cornucopia Issue 17, 1999 'Built as a glittering prize, then closed through war and exile, this flamboyant survivor is one of the last of the great waterfront mansions of theBosphorus.' View highlights Issue 17

	Princess Fazileh at the Ratip Efendi Yali, Yeniköy 1957 Archive photographs courtesy of Mrs Suna Mardin	SOME ENCHANTED EVENING by Patricia Daunt with interior photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg Cornucopia Issue 18, 1999' 'In the 1950s, a palely beautiful summerhouse on the Bosphorus made tbe perfect playground for the cream of café society. Now its luminous, airy rooms, emptied of fuss and Colour, reveal their natural beauty. Patricia Daunt uncovers the colourful past of Ratip Efendi's yali. View highlights Issue 18

		THE HOUSE THAT CAME OUT OF THE BLUE by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Jean Marie del Moral and Berrin Torolsan. Cornucopia Issue 21, 2000' 'It was only to stop a property dealer painting the selamlik blue that the Germen family acquired a Bosphorus yali to look after. This pavilion, on a glorious stretch of the Anatolian shore, enjoys southerly views all the way to the Topkapi and sunsets to die for. Patricia Daunt meets the latest owners of this former royal retreat.' View highlights Issue 21

		THE PALACE LADY'S SUMMERHOUSE by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg Cornucopia Issue 36, 2006 The descendants of a grand Ottoman family have restored the lustre to one of the pearls of the Bosphorus. In the new Cornucopia, Patricia Daunt charts the fluctuating fortunes of the Ethem Pertev Yali. The photographs of the magnificent interior are by Fritz von der Schulenburg. View highlights Issue 36



		THE COUNTRY HOUSES THAT RIDE THE STORM by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Simon Upton Cornucopia Issue 12, 1997 'In the rain forests of Turkey's Black Sea Mountains, where jackals howl and the River Firtina (the Storm) crashes towards the Black Sea, live the Hemsinli people, who were here when Jason came in search of the Golden Fleece. In more recent years they prospered as bakers and restaurateurs in Tsarist Russia, returning to their beautiful, haunting country houses hidden in the hills east of Trabzon. Patrica Daunt visits one family and shares their memories of a Chekovian rural life.' View highlights Issue 12 See At Home in Turkey featuring a tea planter's mansion in Findikli

		THE LAKE THAT TIME FORGOT: Lake Koycegiz: The Basket Houses by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg Cornucopia Issue 20, 2000 'Minutes from the Mediterranean, Lake Koycegiz is a beautiful backwater lost in time. Cornucopia devotes 40 pages to the lake, its people, its unique basket houses and the house that Ali Riza Pasha built.' 'The whole area is famous for its dwellings of woven wood. The best surviving ones are in Hamitkoy, on the lake's western shore. These unique primitive habitations, now abandoned for concrete apartments, probably date back to antiquity' View highlights Issue 20
		Lake Koycegiz: Artist in Residence by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg Cornucopia Issue 20, 2000 Sema Menteseoglu returned to Koycegiz in 1992 to find her family home in perilous disrepair. Her great-grandfather, Ali Riza Pasha had built the small but handsome and airy house in 1878 in the grounds of his forebears' ruined palace. Sema, an artist trained in Italy set about putting the house and estate in order. This house is featured in At Home in Turkey


		FROM LUNACY TO DIPLOMACY The Hotel de lamballe by Patricia Daunt, with photographs by Jean Marie del Moral Cornucopia Issue 30, 2003/04 'The Hotel de Lamballe was home to a doomed princess and an asylum for mad artists before it became Turkey’s embassy in Paris. In 1945 the young Nevin Menemencioglu came upon the elegant mansion when she was searching the city for a building where her uncle, the Turkish ambassador, could set up his mission. Patricia Daunt reveals the turbulent past behind its serene façade. Photographs by Jean Marie del Moral.' View highlights Issue 30

		TREASURES OF A LOST DYNASTY by Patricia Daunt Photographs by Jean Marie del Moral The Camondo family, once dubbed ‘the Rothschilds of the East’, amassed a fortune in Turkey before moving to Paris in 1869. There, in the rue de Monceau, they established an exquisite collection of 18th-century French art, which was bequeathed to the nation in 1935. Today the Musée Nissim de Camondo is all that survives of this magnificent but short-lived dynasty. View highlights Issue 26


		IN THE SPIRIT'S WAKE by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Jürgen Frank Cornucopia Issue 34, 2005 'At last there need be nothing between you and the Bosphorus. The launch speeding guests across the straits from the Asian shore is heading downstream from Istanbul’s chic new waterside hotel. Patricia Daunt tells the story of how two architects created Sumahan on the Water, breathing new life into an old Ottoman spirit factory.' View highlights Issue 34 including more on the architecture of the Eastern Black Sea region Read the full text


		NOT A PLACE FOR THOSE IN A HURRY by Patricia Daunt Feature photographs by Cemal Emden Cornucopia Issue 43, 2010 The Great Mosque and Hospital of Divigi, an imperilled masterpiece of Islamic art in the remote Upper Euphrates, is the only single building in Turkey given World Heritage status by Unesco. View highlights Issue 43

		NOTHING LIKE A GOOD RUIN by Patricia Daunt Turkey attracts hordes of professional scholars - archaeologists in particular - and other single-minded, well-informed visitors who know just what they are after. But the non-expert visitor in search of more than sea and sun, who wants to combine pleasure with ruins, may be glad of a hint or two... View highlights Issue 36
		A NEW GEM EVERY DAY by Patricia Daunt Continuing her series of drives across Anatolia, Patricia Daunt explores the historic southeast. Along the way she discovers a sixteen-arched Roman bridge and a hotel that used to be a soap factory View highlights Issue 37