Issue 5, 1993/94
Palaces of Diplomacy I
Cornucopia lifts the lid on the story of the spectacular winter embassies of Ottoman Istanbul, investigates Thomas Hope and the rediscovered drawings of this Regency dandy, journey to the Abkhazian homelands; hunt for Ottoman silks; and spot birds of the Sultan marshes. Finally feasting on pomegranates, the jewels of winter
Highlights
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Palaces of Diplomacy, Part 1
The former embassies of Ottoman Istanbul have more of a consular role today but they 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.
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A Case of Regency Exoticism
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. David Watkin assesses Hope’s orientalism and its place in the development of Regency style.
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Soul Fruit
The Romans consumed pomegranates in great quantities, made wine from the fermented juice and preserved the fruit, dipped in seawater and dried in the sun, for winter.
More cookery features -
Art from a Distance
Vanmour and the Guardis, by Jean Michel Casa. An exhibition at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, on Jean-Baptiste Vanmour perhaps the earliest Orientalist painter.
Inside the issue
Special Feature
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Palaces of Diplomacy, Part 1
The Pera Embassies, by Patricia Daunt
Art
- Trail of Silk, by Tim Stanley
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A Case of Regency Exoticism
Thomas Hope and the Benaki Drawings -
By Halı Writ
Madeleine Marsh on the rug enthusiast's bible
Interiors
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Istanbul Design Directory
Amicia de Moubrey hunts down the treasure troves of Maçka -
The Fourth Estate
Istanbul's stylish Press HQs, by Andrew Finkel -
Bars and Stripes
Café society by Nicholas Haslam
Commercial Affairs
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Waterway Madness
Shipping on the Bosphorus, by John Murray Brown
Country Life
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A Tale of Two Homelands
The Abkhazians in Turkey -
Life on the Sultan Marshes
Winged visitors to the southwestern wetlands
Cookery
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Soul Fruit
The Pomegranate, by Berrin Torolsan
Regular Features
Connoisseur
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Ancestors of the Iron Lady
Nine thousand years of the Anatolian Woman -
Art from a Distance
Van Mour and the Guardis -
Autumn Windfalls
The London Sales
Books
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Sublime to the Meticulous
Sinan: Ottoman Architecture and its Values Today, by Godfrey Goodwin.
A Late 19th Century Tailor’s Order Book, by Hülya Tezcan
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Books from Hamburg
Orient Stars A Carpet Collection by E. Heinrich Kirchheim.
Yayla, Form und Farbe in Türkischer Textilkunst, by Werner Brüggemann.
A Wealth of Silk and Velvet , Ottoman Fabrics and Embroideries ed. by Christian Erber
Floral Messages: From Ottoman Court Embroideries to Anatolian Trousseau Chests by Ulla Ther. Reviewed by Penny Oakley
Media
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Making Airwaves
Turkish television, by David Barchard
Shopping
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Hidden Treasures of the Seraglio
Dyala Salam's London shop, by Patricia Jellicoe
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