Botter appartements, Art Nouveau apartment building in Beyoğlu, Turkey.
Botter Apartments is a residential building on İstiklal Avenue featuring Art Nouveau design elements. Its limestone facade spans multiple stories and is decorated with carved stone ornaments, stained glass windows, and wrought iron details throughout.
The building was designed in 1901 for the imperial court tailor, with his workshop and shop occupying the ground floor. An Italian architect created the design using innovative approaches for its time.
The building shows how European design arrived in early 20th-century Istanbul and mixed with local architectural traditions. Walking past it, you notice how the ornaments and proportions reflect this meeting of different worlds.
The building is located on a busy pedestrian street in the main commercial area, making it easy to view from the sidewalk. Some of the decorative details on the surface have worn away over time, so studying them closely requires attention to the better-preserved sections.
The Italian architect who designed it drew inspiration from Japanese graphic art, incorporating these elements into the geometric patterns of the stone ornaments. This unexpected blend of Asian and European influences appears subtle in the building's decorative details.
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