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Thomas Hope by Sir Thomas
Beecham. National Portrait Gallery, London. |
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CORNUCOPIA HIGHLIGHTS #5
Winter
embassies II Hope in
the East I I Hali Magazine:
the carpet bagger's bible I I Vanmour and Guardi I I Pomegranates
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CORNUCOPIA 5: HISTORIC ISTANBUL
INTERIORS |
ISTANBUL'S
PALACES
OF
DIPLOMACY The embassies
of
Ottoman Pera By
Patricia Daunt Photographs by
Fritz von der
Schulenburg | 
| 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 | Part II. The Bosphorus embassies.
See
Cornucopia
6 |
|
Cover Story A CASE OF REGENCY EXOTICISM By David
Watkin and
Fanni Maria Tsigakou Drawings from
the Benaki Museum | 
| In 1983 Fani-Maria
Tsigakou of the Benaki Museum in Athens found five volumes of late 18th-century drawings of Ottoman Empire
subjects by Thomas Hope. So finely drawn were they that they had been mistakenly catalogued as engravings.
Hope had travelled to Turkey on his Grand Tour, falling in love with the customs, costumes and artefacts of
the Ottoman Empire, influences he took back with him to London. David Watkin assesses Hope's orientalism and
its place in the development of Regency style, and the artist's depictions of Istanbul, among them this
pen-and-sepia drawing, are published here, courtesy of the museum, for the first time | |
CORNUCOPIA 5: TURKISH RUGS AND TEXTILES |
BY HALI WRIT The story of Hali Magazine By Madeleine Marsh | 
| Rug enthusiasts
have their own unique bible in Hali Magazine -not a staid academic journal but an accessible and even
irreverent guide to the global antique textile scene. | |
CORNUCOPIA 5:
TRAVEL AND BIRD WATCHING IN TURKEY |
LIFE IN
THE
SULTAN
MARSHES The migrating birds of central Anatolia Text and photographs
by
Chris Hellier | 
| Turkey's Sultan
Marshes are a veritable magnate for countless flamingos, teals and other winged visitors, all of them
enriching these wetlands with colour and sound. Chris Hellier moves in for a closer look | |
CORNUCOPIA 5: TURKISH COOKERY |
Cookery SOUL
FRUIT Pomegranate recipes Text and photographs
by
Berrin Torolsan | 
| Pomegranates, long enjoyed for their succulence and their inner beauty, have been credited with
uplifting properties. Berrin Torolsan presents a selection of recipes using these fascinating jewelled winter
fruits Pomegranate recipes: - Kisir
- Parsley and Bulgur Salad
- Bildircin
Kebabi
- Grilled quails
- Acem Yahnisi
- Braised Chicken with walnut
- Narli Dondurmasi
- Pomegranate
Sorbet
- Nar Surubu
- Pomegranate Syrup
-
- Sorbets are always wonderful to look at, but pomegranate sorbet served in a crystal or silver
bowl is perfection...'
| Index of cookery
features |
CORNUCOPIA 5:
ANATOLIA TODAY |
A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES Turkey's Abkhazians By Jeremy
James Photographs
by
Simon Upton | 
| The Abkhazians are among
they many peoples who have fled in waves from the Caucasus to find refuge in Turkey. The photographer Simon
Upton captures the rural face of Abkhazian culture as it has survived in the valleys of Adapazari east of
Istanbul since the 1860s. And the writer Jeremy James crosses the Black Sea to discover the proud people's
original homeland in the former Soviet Union and witness their struggle to preserve it | See The People That Time
Forgot: Russia's Love Affair with the Caucasus, Cornucopia 28 |
CORNUCOPIA 5: CONNOISSEUR |
ART FROM A DISTANCE Vanmour and the Guardis By Jean Michel Casa An exhibition at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice | 
| In 1699, when the Marquis Charles de Ferriol d'Argental was appointed French ambassador to the
Ottoman court by Louis XIV, he took in his entourage a little-known artist from Valenciennes to paint the
costumes and customs of the Ottoman capital and to record his mission. The marquis returned to France in
1711, but Jean-Baptiste Vanmour stayed on in Istanbul... Vanmour was never a great artist, but he was in
effect the first of the orientalist painters. Charles de Ferriol, for his part, was whimsical and
quick-tempered. But in 1712, soon after his return to Paris, he did have the genius to publish engravings of
a hundred Ottoman portraits which he had ordered from Vanmour in 1708 and 1709. The work was an overwhelming
success. Jean Michel Casa tells the story of how many years later it came to the aid of the celebrated Guardi
brothers, then at the height of their fame, commissioned by the great marshal von der Schulenburg, who had
defeated the Ottomans at Corfu and retired to a palazzo in Venice, to paint fourteen oriental
scenes. | See Philip Mansel's review of Eyewitness of the Tulip Period, Jean Baptiste
Vanmour, in Cornucopia
30 |
CORNUCOPIA 5:
ISTANBUL'S NEW CAFE SOCIETY |
BARS
AND
STRIPES Nisantasi's
bars and cafes By
Nicholas Haslam Photographs
by
Simon
Upton | 
| Coffee has come home to
roost (and to roast) in the smart new haunts of Istanbul, where the chattering classes meet for conversation
over steaming cappuccini and filling fettuccine. Nicholas Haslam discovers the latest café
society. | |
Book reviews in Cornucopia
5 John Carswell reviews Sinan: Ottoman Architecture and its Values
Today, by Godfrey Goodwin (buy from
Amazon) and A Late 19th-century Tailor's Order Book, by Hülya
Tezcan, published by the Sadberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul Penny Oakley
reviews carpet and textile books from ICOC Hamburg (buy from
Amazon) Plus books in
brief: Splendours of the Bosphorus: Houses and Palaces of Istanbul, by Chris Hellier (buy from
Amazon) ; Flammarion's L'Art de Vivre a Istanbul, with photographs
by Jerome Darblay (buy from Amazon) ; Ottoman Embroidery, by Roderick
Taylor (buy
from Amazon); Kaitag: Textile Art from Daghestan, by Robert
Chenciner (buy from Cornucopia)
|
Short features in
Cornucopia 5 Making airwaves: Media report by David
Barchard Trail of Silk: A mission to tie up the loose ends of Ottoman silk weaving.
By Tim Stanley (see cover story, Cornucopia 23) Waterway madness: the Bosphorus shipping
crisis, by John Murray Brown Istanbul Design Directory: a 9-page guide introduced by
Amicia de Moubrey with photographs by Simon Upton Hidden Treasures of the Seraglio:
Dyala Salam's London shop, replete with riches from the Eastern Mediterranean, by Patricia
Jellicoe Bagging the best: Penny Oakley picks the cream of carpets and
textiles Sheer revelation: skiing in Turkey Restaurant
reviews: The Gravy Train, by Christopher Ryan, including Club 29, Kuruçesme Divan, the Marmara and the
Tugra Restaurants |
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