There are many services that I offer as designmixer. But, I must admit one of my most favorite and funnest job of all is cross-cultural design items sourcing since it is involved with lots of traveling, searching and discoveries. Finding the most beautiful fabrics, decorative items, antiques, arts, crafts, and right pieces for the specific […]
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Haziran ayında Trabzon, Rize ve Artvin yaylarına, doğanın kalbine yaptığımız gezide zihnime adeta mıhlanmış yeşilin tonları, bol oksijenli mis gibi havanın tazeliği özellikle yazın bu kavurucu sıcaklarında hayallerimi süslüyor. İşte tam da bu yüzden gürül gürül sularıyla, yağmurun cila gibi parlattığı yeşiliyle biraz da içinizi rahatlatmayı arzu ettim Ağustos ayının bu sıcak köşesinde. Türkiye’ […]
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Here today, I would like to share with you Serdar Gülgün‘s hilltop home viewing Bosphorus located in Istanbul which I came a cross in Elle Decor magazine. The beautiful house was originally built for an exiled Hungarian pasha in the 1850s Macar Feyzullah Pasha. The house has renovated by the new owner interior designer, author, Ottoman Art […]
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Peace, love and harmony are 3 things speaking the common language of humanity. Those are the feelings which create the real purpose of our being and we go after them all throughout our lives. They deeply rise in heart and soul. Once we find them we never want to loose them ever again. No doubt, since […]
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İstanbul’ un kalbinde yer alan, her geçen gün sürpriz mekanları ile şehre renk katan Karaköy’ de yepyeni bir Hotel açıldı, The Haze. Otel’ in iç mimarı GC mimarlığın kurucusu,yetenekli iç mimar ve peysaj mimari, Şebnem Gürcün ile giriş katında Forneria restaurant da lezzetli pizzamızı yerken hoş bir sohbet ile mekanın tasarım hikayesini konuştuk. Ardından tüm binayı […]
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This weekend, I visited the exhibition called “Japanese wind at the Ottoman palace” at the National Palaces Museum in Istanbul. The story of the Japanese culture and influence on Ottoman empire by the late 19th century was quite interesting, and there I wished I could travel in time machine, witness all the relations build up […]
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The rock houses and the fairy chimneys of Zelve are one of the most important site of Cappadocia which is visited as a open-air museum today. Maybe, Zelve does not have the frescos as the other dwellings of Cappadocia but the rooms and passages in the rocky slopes are as interesting as the other ones. It is amazing to think how people settled in these […]
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Originally posted on munahome:
İlyastepe Cottage If you are a well-traveled person, you most probably have eclectic style based on your own travel experiences. Your house has objects, kilims, fabrics and furnitures from different parts of the world collected within time. Eventhough, there is a limitation to ship or carry the stuff around, one can be find…
This weekend, I visited the Contemporary Chinese Art exhibition called Transformation: A view on Chinese Contemporary Art at Istanbul Modern Museum featuring the 15 artists from China. I think we as Istanbullers are lucky to have a chance of viewing these wonderful Art exhibition as part of the celebrations of 2012 Chinese Cultural year in Turkey until […]
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Bodrum seyahatimin son duraklarından biri Türkiye’ nin tek Relais Chateux ünvanını kazanmış muhteşem Ada Hoteliydi. Osmanlı dönemi konusunda uzman Ahmet Iğdırlıgil’ in mimarisini ve stil sihirbazı Hakan Ezer’ in dekorasyonunu gerçekleştirdiği; tarihi dokunun ve estetiğin birleştiği bu mükemmel projenin beni adeta büyülediğini itiraf etmeliyim. Gördüklerimi ve hakkında öğrendiklerimi sizlerle paylaşmak için heyecanlanıyorum… Türkbükü sırtlarında […]
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