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Anadol Antik
Fancy a wooden door from an Ottoman house? Or perhaps a ceramic-clad wood stove? This cavernous shop is filled with a hodgepodge of curios and collectables. If you brave the dust and the dim lights you just might find yourself a treasure.
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Art.I.Choke
Some places are as much art gallery as they are shop, and art.i.choke is most certainly one of them. A shrine to the wonderful art of felt, it creates and sells unique objects made from the fuzzy stuff. The clothes, slippers, cushions, shawls and rugs on offer here are truly exquisite. If there's no-one in the shop, try the upstairs studio.
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Artrium
This Aladdin's cave of a shop is crammed with antique ceramics, Ottoman miniature paintings, maps, prints and jewellery. It also has occasional pieces of Ottoman clothing and fabric. If you're after anything in particular, ask the owner, as she'll be happy to rummage upstairs in the storage area where excess stock is kept. Pricey but nice.
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Caferağa Medresesi
The rooms around this pretty medrese (Islamic seminary) are used as art-teaching studios and some of the product - jewellery, miniatures, ebru (marbled paper) - is sold here for reasonable prices. There isn't a lot to choose from, but it's certainly worth wandering in for a peek at what's on offer.
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Design Zone
Contemporary Turkish designers and artists show and sell their work here. There's nifty jewellery (we love the lale motifs), ceramics, furniture and homewares, as well as some less impressive painting and sculpture work.
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Er & Ne & Met
Need a few rugs for your palazzo? This is where to get them. Specialising in oversized rugs, it stocks a large range of new, old, antique and silk examples of the craft, all of which are top quality.
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Galeri Alfa
What makes this store special is its range of charming toy Ottoman soldiers and court figures - even Süleyman the Magnificent has been shrunk to 10cm tall. It also stocks old maps and prints.
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Gönül Paksoy
Paksoy creates and sells pieces that transcend fashion and step into art. She works in a number of forms, and these two shops stock her distinctive silk and cotton knits, jewellery based on traditional Ottoman designs, and silk and cotton clothing in rich fabrics with feature trimming.
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Hikmet + Pinar
An opulently decorated store filled to the brim with top-class Ottoman-era furniture, mirrors, glassware, textiles and paintings, Hikmet + Pinar is the type of place you enter only if you're ready to spend the cash equivalent of a second mortgage. We bet they furnish more than their fair share of İstanbul mansions.
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İstanbul Handicrafts Market
Set in the small rooms surrounding the leafy courtyard of the 18th-century Cedid Mehmed Efendi Medresesi, this handicrafts centre next door to the hotel Yeşil Ev is unusual in that local artisans sometimes work here and don't mind if visitors watch while they do so. Their creations are available for purchase; it's a great place to source beautiful calligraphy, glassware, hand embroidery, miniature paintings, ceramics and fabric dolls.
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İznik Classics & Tiles
İznik Classics and Tiles is the best place in town to source collector-item ceramics, including hand-painted pieces by accredited masters including Adnan Hoca, whose plates, vases and tiles are made with real quartz and metal oxides for pigments and retail for anything up to around YTL5000 . It also stocks some mass-produced stock, which is a lot cheaper but still beautiful.
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Mehmet Çetinkaya Gallery
When rug experts throughout the country meet for their annual shindig, this is where they come to check out the good stuff. You won't find any rubbish here, and you could quite possibly find a family heirloom or two. Just remember: quality never comes cheaply. It has a second shop selling textiles and objets in the Arasta Bazaar.
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Ortaköy Market
On Saturday and Sunday the laneways around the waterfront mosque in Ortaköy host a flea market. Merchandise is tacky - most seems to come from the Subcontinent and Africa and is found in flea markets worldwide - and the handicrafts on offer are firmly in the hippy camp, but it's still a pleasant spot to while away a weekend hour or two.
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Paşabahçe
Established in 1957, this local firm manufactures excellent glassware from its factory on the Bosphorus. Three floors of glassware, vases and decanters feature here and prices are very reasonable. Styles are both traditional and contemporary.
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Şamdan
Located on one of Beyoğlu's main antique strips, this small shop stocks quality antique furniture, china and glassware, specialising in Ottoman and Art Deco pieces.
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Sofa
What a treasure-trove of a shop! As well as its eclectic range of prints, textiles, ceramics, calligraphy and Ottoman miniatures, Sofa sells contemporary Turkish art and books. The range of pricey jewellery made out of antique Ottoman coins and 24-carat gold is particularly alluring.
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Ziya Aykaç
Established in 1910, Ziya Aykaç stocks antique watches, silk prayer rugs, silver jewellery and old porcelain. If you can't find something great to take home, you're just not looking hard enough.
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