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Issue 67, December 2024

Beauty in the Wilderness

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Iris paradoxa by the acclaimed botanical artist Işık Güner graces the cover of Issue 67. Güner is currently leading a team of 89 botanical artists creating the new Illustrated Flora of Turkey – a phenomenal undertaking. In the arid southeast of Anatolia, Don McCullin captures the incredible power of Nemrut Dağı, sacred mountain of Mithras. Malika Browne goes riding with the intrepid Alexandra Tolstoy in Kyrgyzstan. The old schooner Hulda is where the self-exiled İlhan Koman conjured up his visions, which are both mathematical and numinous. The photographer Annette Louise Solakoğlu follows his journey from Edirne to the Hulda’s old mooring near Stockholm, where he lived and worked until his death in 1986.

Highlights

  • Bring on the Boza

    Sweet but with a tang, boza is a favourite winter drink. Restorative, gently uplifting, it inspires mellow conversation and is a cornerstone of Istanbul life, while the nocturnal cry of its street-sellers, a not-quite-distant memory, is still the stuff of poetry. By Berrin Torolsan

  • Connoisseur 67: Words of beauty

    Joachim Meyer, of Copenhagen’s David Collection, on the powerful aura of Islamic calligraphy


  • Connoisseur 67: Worlds apart

    An exhibition in London reveals the Islamic art that captivated William Morris. By Thomas Roueché


  • Connsoisseur: The eyes of Elisa Zonaro

    She was the wife of the Sultan’s court painter and mother to four children. But Elisa Zonaro was also an artist in her own right, a pioneering female photographer in Abdülhamid II’s Istanbul. Philip Mansel celebrates a free-spirited trailblazer


  • Where Gods Salute the Dawn

    Don McCullin and Barnaby Rogerson travel back in time, elated by the enduring power of Mithras, god of the sun

  • Drawn to Nature

    The botanical artistry of Işık Güner, by Harriet Rix



Inside the issue

PEOPLE AND PLACES

  1. Drawn to Nature: The botanical artistry of Işık Güner, by Harriet Rix [extract available online]
  2. Where the Gods Salute the Dawn: Don McCullin on Nemrut Dağı, by Barnaby Rogerson [extract available online]
  3. Horseback in the USSR: Malika Brown finds a Garden of Eden in the Tien Shan Mountains
  4. A Will of Iron: Annette Louise Solakoğlu on the visionary sculptures of İlhan Koman · 104

CONNOISSEUR

  1. Words of Beauty: Joachim Meyer on spellbinding calligraphy in the David Collection [extract available online]
  2. Travels Unravelled: Caroline Eden on the early treasures of the Silk Road ·
  3. Worlds Apart: William Morris’s love of Islamic art, by Thomas Roueché [extract available online]
  4. Istanbul Encounters: Exhibition highlights, by Alexandra de Cramer
  5. The Eyes of Elisa Zonaro: A female photographer at the Sultan’s court, by Philip Mansel [extract available online]
  6. Soft Power: Carpets: a woven world, by Cosima Stewart

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. Swansong of a Gentle Scholar: John Carswell’s Benaki triumph, by Tim Stanley
  2. A Bumpy Ride: 1930s Balkans on a bicycle, by Christopher Trillo
  3. The Sultan’s Secret: Andrew Finkel’s riveting new novel, by John Murray Brown [available online]
  4. Life and Death in the House of War: Simon Mayall’s cautionary tale

COOKERY

  1. Bring on the Boza The mellow drink of winter, by Berrin Torolsan [extract available online]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS

  1. Private View: Andrew Finkel's Istanbul diary
  2. Scaling the Heights: Istanbul’s Queen of Jazz talks to John Shakespeare Dyson
  3. Eating out: A new cachet for the classics, by Andrew Finkel
  4. Eating out: A new cachet for the classics, by Andrew Finkel
  5. Postscript" My Father, the Beautiful Dreamer. The novelist Selin Tamtekin on the many talents of a diplomat-artist
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