- 14 May 2024
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Casa Botter Art and Design Center
Casa Botter Art and Design Center, designed by İBB Miras, is located in Beyoğlu.
Botter Apartment Building, one of the unique pieces of Beyoğlu’s treasure with its history, story and spirit, is being improved from top to bottom with works applied with original materials and techniques in line with IBB Heritage’s restoration approach representing universal conservation principles.
From its facade adorned with the most original details of the Art Nouveau movement to its colorful stained glass windows, from its elevator, which is one of the firsts of the city, to its stair railings, from its walls to its flooring, the meticulous work not only strengthens the historical building against time and a possible Istanbul earthquake, but also restores its soul that has been lost over the years.
The ground floor of the apartment building hosts an exhibition hall, while the first floor hosts workspaces that keep the enthusiasm of the 100th anniversary of the Republic on the pulse.
Once the restoration process, which continues unabated on the other floors of the building, is completed, Casa Botter will also house a screening center, the conference hall of the IBB İBB Belgesel Film Arşiv Merkezi [Documentary Film Archive Center] (DOCIST) established under IBB Miras [IMM Heritage], design workshops and artist offices. The additional building in the garden of the Botter Apartment will host city residents as a café and the outbuilding as a design house.
With Casa Botter Art and Design Center, which aims to be a center of attraction that inspires Istanbul with the power of design, culture and art, dreaming and producing together, “UNESCO Design City” Istanbul will have another design center.
History
Botter Apartment is one of the important buildings that reflects the apartment building process in Beyoğlu and Galata region and has survived to the present day.It was built for Jean Botter, a Dutch national who was the official tailor and couturier of the palace during the reign of Abdülhamid II.The construction was completed in 1901 by the Italian architect Raimondo D’Aronco.Raimondo D’Aronco graduated from the Venice Academy as an architect in 1880, and in 1893 he was invited by Abdülhamid II to work as an architect in the Agriculture Department. D’Aronco lived in Istanbul between 1893 and 1909 and designed many important buildings in the city.The building is the first example of art nouveau architecture on an urban scale in Istanbul. The ground floor of the Botter Apartment was used as a fashion house, the first floor as a workshop and the other floors as the family’s residence. The “Botter Fashion House” on the ground floor is known as the first fashion house in Istanbul. It is known that the showcase of the fashion house facing the street was adorned with silk evening dresses displaying the most popular “haute couture” examples of the period. While Jean Botter received his guests in the large hall on the first floor, the back rooms were reserved for assistants. It is known that Jean Botter designed clothes for the palace and Ottoman nobility for many years. In 1917, The Botter Family sold the apartment building to Mahmut Nedim Bey, the son of Nedim Pasha, one of the Ottoman viziers, and moved to Paris. The curvilinear lines and elliptical balcony with floral motifs, laurel tree abstractions, rose motifs, women’s heads, medallions on the exterior of the Botter Apartment; the elliptical stair railing, elevator, stained glass windows with rose motifs and lighting elements in the interior reflect the general characteristics of art nouveau buildings.
Exhibition Works
Botter Apartment hosted 13 works by 12 artists curated by Melike Bayık between April 14 and July 16, 2023.
From July 24 to October 30, 2023, the exhibition curated by İzzeddin Çalışlar, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mehmet Alkan, shed light on the Lausanne Peace Treaty signed in 1923 and the diplomatic processes that determine even the present day of the Republic of Turkey, which was established immediately after the treaty.
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