Cornucopia No. 6: Palaces of Diplomacy II

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Issue 6, 1994, £8 (US$16)

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Cover: The Spanish Legation, Buyukdere by Fritz von der Schulenburg

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CORNUCOPIA 6 COVER STORY: HISTORIC ISTANBUL INTERIORS

Cover Story

THE PALACES
OF DIPLOMACY

Part 2

The Summer Embassies of the Bosphorus

By Patricia Daunt

Photographs:
Fritz von der Schulenburg

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.

Also see:
Embassies: Part I
The Palaces of Diplomacy
By Patricia Daunt
in CORNUCOPIA NO 5

How to see the palaces

None of the palaces in this article, with the exception of the Austrian Consultate (see below), are open to the public. They can all be seen from the water and are on the European shore of the Bosphorus. Write to the embassies in question to obtain permission

See the Austrian Consultate in Yenikoy is by attending one of the regular recitals held there. See Performing Arts in Turkey

CORNUCOPIA 6: OTTOMAN ART

SHEETS OF MARBLE

Traditional Arts

By Ali Suat Urguplu

Photographs: Simon Upton

The ancient art of ebru, or paper marbling, creates sinuous, swirling patterns of subtle colour which owe their appearance to processes as mysterious as the technique's very beginnings. Ebru apprentice Ali Suat Urguplu shares his master Fuad Basar's secrets.

Articles on
traditional
Ottoman art:

By the Light of a Silvery Moon
Trade Secrets,
by Roger Williamson
CORNUCOPIA NO 24

CORNUCOPIA 6: CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL INTERIORS

TRAVELLING LIGHT

Istanbul Interiors

By Amicia de Moubray

Photographs:
Simon Upton

Amicia de Moubray admires the pared down elegance of the apartment of a modern cosmopolitan couple in the Maçka district of Istanbul

CORNUCOPIA 6: OTTOMAN BOOK BINDING

BOUND IN
PERFECT GLORY

Ottoman book bindings

Excerpts from a new book edited by Tim Stanley

A new study of the art of book binding in fifteenth-century Turkey reveals the literary tastes and passions of three powerful Ottoman sultans. Cornucopia is dazzled by the contents of the Renaissance libraries of Istanbul and Bursa.

CORNUCOPIA 6: TRAVEL AND BOTANY

THE LAND
OF THE
FLOWERING
PENGUINS

Turkish flora

By Andrew Byfield

They are smelly and poisonous, and trick insects into doing their dirty work; but arums and aristolochias are among the most striking wild flowers in Turkey. The botanist Andrew Byfield tracks them down on the glaring limestone peninsulas of Marmaris and in the scruffier habitats of the high Taurus Mountains.

CORNUCOPIA 6: TURKISH COOKERY

FRUITS
OF
VICTORY

Cherry recipes

By Berrin Torolsan

Shining crimson globes bursting with tongue-tingling juices...
Cherries, the trophy brought back to the West by Lucullus, are truly fit for a feast. Berrin Torolsan's recipes capture the sweet taste of summer

Books reviewed in Cornucopia 6

Ömer Koç reviews The Imperial Realm: Women and Sovereignty, by Leslie Pierce and Classical Anatolia: The Glory of Hellenism, by Harry Brewster. (buy from Amazon)

John Freely reviews The Antiquities of Constantinople, by Pierre Gilles (Petrus Gyllius) (buy from Amazon)

Email Cornucopia with special requests for books published in Turkey.

Short features in Cornucopia 6

A minister with portfolio: the diplomat and watercolorist CG Lowenhelm, Connoisseur

Rifat Ozbek, by Nilgin Yusuf

Engineering a musical spectacular. John Murray Brown interviews the new director of the Istanbul Festival, Melih Fereli

Bricks and Torpor: Istanbul housing, by Andrew Finkel

Air raids: Turkey's precocious television industry has its wrists slapped. John Murray Brown reports.

A toast to good caviar. Rory Knight Bruce on Istanbul's new caviar mountain

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