Issue 44, 2010
Classics with a Twist
From the startling couture of Dice Kayek to the astonishing history of the Washington Embassy and its most famous inhabitants, the Ertegün family, via the groundbreaking photographs of John Henry Haynes. Meanwhile Ro Fitzgerald finds a sea of blooms on the Aegean coast, Griselda Warr relives 1960s Istanbul, Min Hogg takes the road from Kars to Van. Plus ethereal interior photography from Metehan Özcan; and a feast of plums from Berrin Torolsan.
Highlights
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Plum Perfect
Only Kastamonu in the hinterland of the Black Sea, boasts the naked plum (üryani erik). In Daday, a valley just outside the town, a handful of villages have been encouraged to keep cultivating this plump, purplish-blue variety. When it is ripe and oozing with fragrance and sweetness, the delicate skin peels off easily to expose the amber-coloured flesh.
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Sea of Blooms
The magic of southwest Turkey can still catch you unawares, especially if you sail. Botanist Ro FitzGerald boards a fine ketch and plots a course for that stunningly beautiful corner where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean.
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The Bottle-Top Mansion
An architectural extravaganza built in America’s Gilded Age for the man who invented the bottle top, the Everett House in Washington DC has a long and colourful connection with Turkey. Thomas Roueché charts its history. Photographs by Jürgen Frank.
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On the Road to Ruins
John Henry Haynes was the father of American archaeological photography. Many of his images are the only record of a vanished Anatolian heritage. On the centenary of his death, Robert Ousterhout pays tribute.
Inside the issue
Connoisseur
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Cover Story:
A Passion for Fashion
the cutting-edge couture of Dice Kayek, by Nilgin Yusuf - Arts Diary by Thomas Roueché
Travel
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The Aegean:
Sea of Blooms
Botanical travels in the coastal Southwest by Ro FitzGerald -
Central Anatolia:
On the Road to Ruins
Anatolia in the 1880s, seen through the lens of John Henry Haynes, father of American archaeological photography, by Robert Ousterhout -
The Eastern Border:
Queen of the Wild Frontier
Min Hogg journeys from Kars to Van
People & Places
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The Bottle-Top Mansion
The Ertegün family and the story of Turkey's Washington Embassy, by Thomas Roueché -
Adventures in Istanbul
Life in the Sixties, by Griselda Warr -
Silent Witness
The ethereal photographs of Metehan Özcan, by Maureen Freely
Book Reviews
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Priceless Panoramas
An album of early-19th-century engravings of Istanbul goes under the hammer -
An Ottoman Traveller by Robert Dankoff and Sooyong Kim.
Reviewed by Gerald MacLean. -
Kingdoms of Ruin by Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch.
Reviewed by Rupert Scott. -
Ionia: A Quest by Freya Stark.
Reviewed by Rupert Scott -
A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Atatürk by Mesut Uyar and Edward J Erickson.
Reviewed by David Barchard -
Essays on Ottoman Historians and Historiography by Rhoads Murphey.
Reviewed by Caroline Finkel
Food
Regulars
- Private View by Andrew Finkel
- Village Voices Azize Ethem's Iznik diary
- Eating Out Andrew Finkel's quest for the Perfect Watering Hole
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