Design Ateliers Set Up Shop in Istanbul
Monique Jaques for The New York Times
Serdar-I Ekrem Street near the Galata Tower; designers have followed artists to the Galata neighborhood.
By ROBYN ECKHARDT
ON an unseasonably warm day last winter the tap-tap of a jeweler’s hammer mingled with the clink of espresso cups in Istanbul’s Galata neighborhood. Just a few strides from the neo-bohemians idling at tables outside the cafe-cum-boutique Mavra, the jewelry designer Janset Bilgin hunched over a workbench in her tiny atelier fusing silver, gray labradorite and strips of silk into a bold, chunky necklace.
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