Mavi Boncuk | Max Fruchtermann card No. 1609. Art Nouveau yali of Nazime Sultan in Kuruçeşme by Raimondo D'Aronco[1]. 1897Nazime Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Abdülaziz (1861–1876) commissioned this yalı from Raimondo D'Aronco, the same architect who built the Egyptian Consulate in Bebek. After Çırağan palace burned down, the Meclis Mebusan met here. When the imperial family left Turkey, it was used as a storage facility, and eventually was torn down. The land was used for many years to store coal from the Zonguldak mines.
.[1] Raimondo Tommaso D’Aronco (1857–1932) was an Italian architect renowned for his building designs in the style of Art Nouveau. He was the chief palace architect to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II in Istanbul, Turkey for 16 years.
Art Nouveau was first introduced to Istanbul by d'Aronco, and his designs reveal that he drew freely on Byzantine and Ottoman decoration for his inspiration. D'Aronco made creative use of the forms and motifs of Islamic architecture to create modern buildings for the city.
The buildings, which he designed at Yıldız Palace, were European in style. The best known of these are Yildiz Palace pavilions and the Yildiz Ceramic Factory (1893–1907), the Janissary Museum and the Ministry of Agriculture (1898), the fountain of Abdulhamit II (1901), Karakoy Mosque (1903), the mausoleum for the African religious leader Sheikh Zafir (1905–1906), tomb within the cemetery of Fatih Mosque (1905), Cemil Bey House at Kireçburnu (1905), clock tower for the Hamidiye-i Etfal Hospital (1906). Casa Botter (1900–1901), a seven-story workshop and residence building in Istiklal Avenue in Beyoğlu, which he designed for the sultan’s Dutch fashion tailor M. Jean Botter, represents a turning point in D’Aronco’s architecture.Mavi Boncuk Postings related to Raimondo Tommaso D’Aronco
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