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Buy a digital subscription Go to the Digital EditionWith architecture at the forefront of this issue, Berrin Torolsan and Jürgen Frank take a tour around Serdar Gülgün’s gorgeous Bosphorus house, originally built as a retreat for a Hungarian pasha; Paolo Girardelli highlights the work of Raimondo D’Aronco, whose mastery of art nouveau changed the face of Istanbul. Plus: Magdalen College’s precious Kütahya porcelain; and the green pea – still a favourite after 11,000 years
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The potters of Kütahya designed their ware to brighten monastic settings. Today these ceramics bring a glow to the old Oxford college of a discerning collector. John Carswell follows in the tracks of their journey from 18th-century Anatolia to English academe. Photographs by Lottie Davies
He was an Italian with a powerful affinity for the historic buildings of Ottoman Istanbul. But the architect Raimondo D’Aronco was destined to leave his own very stylish stamp on the city. Paolo Girardelli tells the story of a great European innovator
A handful of green peas improves not only the flavour but the look of many a winter dish. Celeriac hearts, for example, are unthinkable without a garnish of peas. Pea soup and pilav with peas bring a beam of spring sunshine to the table.
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Set amid pines with a glimpse of the Bosphorus is a romantic house built in the 19th century by a Hungarian-born refugee for himself and his young wife. Many such wooden houses nestle in the hills and valleys on the Asian shore. But, as Berrin Torolsan reveals, its restoration by the designer Serdar Gülgün has been a rare labour of love. Photographs by Jürgen Frank
Osman Hamdi and the American’s rocky start in the Ottoman Empire, by Robert Ousterhout and Renata Holod
Furnished and burnished: the varnished hulls of three of Rıfat Edin’s 12-foot dinghies in his Istanbul seaside garden. He has built more than 30 of these nippy wooden sailing boats to original Edwardian blueprints preserved in a Bosphorus yalı
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