Turkey for Connoisseurs

Contents

Cover Story

Rapt in Silk: The bolder face of Ottoman imperial fabrics · 40

Profiles

Love at First Sight: the linguist Geoffrey Lewis, by Andrew Mango · 37 Rough Journeys: the scholar-explorers George Bean and Terence Mitford,

by Barnaby Rogerson · 82

Travel

La Vie en Rose: in search of the rose harvest, by Martyn Rix · 54

Between the Taurus and the Deep Blue Sea:

Kate Clow and Jacqueline de Gier sail Turkey’s eastern Mediterranean shore · 66

Arts Connoisseur

Some Enchanted Garden: Islamic art from the Gulbenkian, by John Carswell

Plus news of auctions and a textiles fair · 9

Dance

Memories of Madam: Dame Ninette de Valois and the birth of Turkish ballet,

by Elizabeth Meath Baker and Bernard Burrows · 12

Photography

Shots of Empire: the royal photographer Vassilaki Kargopoulo, by Philip Mansel · 28

Books

Turkish delights, Byzantine building, blue and white porcelain, the Eastern Question revisited,

new fiction, walking the Lycian Way.

Reviews by Alistair McAlpine, John Julius Norwich, Julian Thompson, David Barchard,

Ali Erginsoy and Andrew Finkel · 19

Cookery

Perfect Peach: Berrin Torolsan on summer’s ultimate thirst-quencher · 88

Regular Features Trade Secrets: Master of Plaster, by Berrin Torolsan.

Photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg · 98

Village Voices by Azize Ethem · 109 Letter from Istanbul by Andrew Finkel · 115

Cover

Ottoman ceremonial kaftan of the sixteenth century in serâser silk – see Page 40.

Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul. Photograph by Hadiye Gökçe