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An independent magazine rooted in Istanbul. Exploring ideas, perspectives & connections in business, global affairs and life. Issues 1 & 2: Sold out!
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An empire can leave behind many things. Buildings, borders, monuments. But some of its most enduring traces are much smaller: a pattern woven into fabric, a flower painted onto a ceramic tile, a decorative detail borrowed by an artist hundreds of years later.
Opening in London on November 7, the V&A's (@vamuseum) Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires is the first major UK exhibition to explore the city's 1,600-year history as the capital of two successive empires. Bringing Byzantine and Ottoman artistic traditions into a single narrative, it traces the cultural exchanges that shaped Istanbul and carried its influence far beyond its borders.
Realised in partnership with Koç Holding @kocholding and with support from the Huo Family Foundation, the exhibition brings together works from the V&A’s collection and lenders in Istanbul, Venice, Athens and across the UK, many of which have never been shown in Britain before.
One of the exhibition's highlights is Gentile Bellini’s portrait of Sultan Mehmed II, painted shortly after Venice and the Ottoman Empire had been at war, revealing how artistic exchange could continue even between political rivals. The 14th-century Lincoln Typikon, an illuminated Byzantine manuscript returning to public display after 60 years, offers another glimpse into the city's rich artistic traditions.
Across the centuries, the city changed rulers, religions and names. Yet it remained a meeting point for artists, craftspeople and merchants, whose ideas travelled far beyond its borders. The exhibition follows those connections into 19th-century Europe, where designers such as Owen Jones and William Morris continued to draw inspiration from Byzantine and Ottoman art.
Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires opens November 7, 2026, and runs until May 9, 2027.
'The Sultan riding out in procession to Friday Prayers', watercolour by anonymous Greek artist, about 1809, Istanbul, Turkey
Tim Stanley, curator of Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires, on the city’s lasting artistic influence.
'Aya Sofia Constantinople', hand-coloured lithograph, by Gaspare Fossati, published by P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852, London
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05 Nov 2026
When John D. Rockefeller was sitting on the largest private fortune in the world, he didn't leave instructions in a will and call it done. He built an institution around the money, a family office, staffed and structured, built to manage the wealth according to values that had been spelled out instead of assumed. Almost a century later, the Rockefellers are still recognizably a family. Still philanthropically active. Still intact, which puts them in rare company.
A family constitution today is a more accessible version of the same idea. Take something that could easily be left to chance, sentiment, or whoever talks loudest at Thanksgiving, and turn it into a system.
It's not really about the money. It's about what a family agrees it stands for, and making sure that gets passed down as deliberately as anything else does. A mission, written out loud. A way to make decisions before there's a decision that needs making. Somewhere for disagreement to go besides silence.
04 Nov 2026
Emmanuel Foyatier's inheritance is unlike most: thousands of designs spanning almost a century. Decades after they were last printed on fabric, he began asking what they could become next.
Maison Martin Morel (@maisonmartinmorel) began printing textiles near Lyon in 1896. After the family company closed in the 1980s, nearly a century of drawings, fabrics, colours and patterns remained behind. Then, in 2013, descendant Emmanuel Foyatier returned to the archive and started looking at it differently.
Today, patterns once created for fashion are being resized, recoloured, reworked and printed again, this time as wallpaper.
We spoke with Emmanuel about growing up next to the old factory, rediscovering thousands of forgotten designs, changing what previous generations left behind and why an archive should not be treated as untouchable.
Read the full interview on our website.
22 Oct 2026
For Lian Penso, Burgazada is a place measured in summers.
Growing up, she would arrive for two or three months at a time and stay until school called her back to the city. In between were days spent wandering the island on her own, trips to the bakery and ice-cream shop, familiar faces behind familiar counters, and the smell of pine trees and the sea.
Known as Antigoni in Greek, Burgazada has always been a meeting place of different communities, languages and traditions. For Lian, this was just part of growing up on the island. Different languages heard at the market, church bells and the call to prayer, and neighbours who had known one another for generations.
There were places and sounds that made each summer feel familiar. The ferry approaching the pier, Turan Amca calling “Tazeler galeta!” through the streets, and afternoons at Kalpazankaya, a beloved island institution since 1959.
In A Love Letter to Burgazada, Lian takes us back to the island of her childhood, where even the smallest memories have stayed with her long after summer ended.
Read Lian's full story on centremag.com
14 Oct 2026
Last Friday we got to host a Delicate Pleasures dinner at a special location in Emirgan and filled one very long table with friends, familiar faces and some people we’d been meaning to meet.
Chef Sinan Karaahmet (@karaahmetov ) and Chef Cihan Kesmez ( @chnksmz8 ) took care of the pleasures, and delicate they were.
Smoked mussel butter with charred lemon, ember-roasted plums over buffalo yoghurt, bacon-wrapped prawn swimming in shellfish bisque, bluefish with shiitake and many, many more reasons to keep passing plates around. Glasses turned white, conversations travelled across the table and somewhere between one course and the next, new acquaintances started feeling a little less new.
A big thank you to Beylerbeyi for giving Centre a home for the night, to Sinan for feeding us so beautifully, and to our wonderful community for showing up hungry, curious and ready to stay a little longer than planned. 🤍
Until the next table!
07 Oct 2026
Streaming didn't kill vinyl. It changed what vinyl was for.
Print is going through something similar.
When information became instant, infinite and free, magazines lost their advantage as the fastest way to distribute it. But the same shift gave physical media something digital couldn't replicate: scarcity, permanence and presence.
A limited-edition magazine can sit on a coffee table for years. It can become collectible. It can say something about the person who owns it.
Brands have noticed. Chanel, Armani, Dior, Acne Studios and others are investing in publications designed less like marketing material and more like cultural objects.
In a world saturated with content, perhaps the most powerful thing a brand can make is something you don't want to throw away.
Read the full article at centremag.com
21 Sep 2026
Nobody knows exactly how Istanbul's parrots got here. A cargo ship on the Bosphorus. An overturned smuggling truck. Pet owners who got tired of the noise. There's even a legend that they arrived fleeing the first Gulf War.
Today, more than 5,000 Rose-ringed and Alexandrine Parakeet call Istanbul home. Halfway around the world, the story runs in reverse. A South American parakeet has been busy colonizing the rest of the world. Barcelona alone has counted thousands of them nesting in its parks. Spain has since banned keeping them as pets entirely.
So how did thousands of birds that nobody ordered end up defining skylines on opposite sides of the world?
Read the full article at centremag.com 🦜
08 Sep 2026
What if the cities of the future aren't shaped by history, but by intention?
Around the world, a new generation of cities is being built from scratch. They promise cleaner infrastructure, smarter planning and solutions to problems older cities were never designed to solve.
But they also pose a question that's much harder to answer.
Can you design a city's soul, or is that something only time, contradiction and the people who inhabit it can create?
Our latest feature explores what these ambitious projects might tell us about the future of urban life—and what they never can.
Read the full feature at centremag.com.
02 Sep 2026
What determines where you can go?
For most people, the answer is simple: the passport they were born with.
But a growing global industry is changing that equation. Around the world, investment visas, residency programs and second citizenships are giving those with sufficient capital new ways to access borders, opportunities and mobility.
The result is a new geography of citizenship… One where some inherit a single passport, while others strategically assemble several.
Our latest feature explores how citizenship is evolving from a legal status into something increasingly treated as an asset—and what that shift could mean for the future of borders, identity and belonging.
Read the full feature at centremag.com.
25 Aug 2026
The family business doesn't usually fail because of business. More often, they unravel because of old rivalries, unclear succession plans, disagreements over ownership, or one sibling feeling overlooked. An inheritance passes down wealth, yes, but it also reshapes relationships.
To navigate that transition, many ultra-wealthy families turn to a little-known field called family governance. Rather than focusing on investments or tax strategy, family governance is about preserving the family itself.
Advisors in this field facilitate difficult conversations, prepare future generations for the responsibilities of ownership, mediate conflict, and help families establish governance systems that can last for decades.
One of the most interesting tools they use is the family constitution. Despite the name, it's usually not a legally binding document. Instead, it's a shared framework that records a family's values, expectations and decision-making processes, covering everything from leadership and ownership to conflict resolution and long-term stewardship.
Some of the world's longest-lasting business dynasties have adopted formal governance structures like these, including family councils, education programs for future generations and constitutional-style frameworks designed to answer one question:
How do you preserve a family after you've preserved the fortune?
We're diving deeper into the hidden world of family governance in our third issue, coming very soon.
12 Aug 2026
Name a truly global Turkish brand.
Not an exporter. Not a manufacturer. A brand with the cultural pull that makes Hermès mean French craft, or Rolex mean Swiss precision.
Harder than it sounds, even though Türkiye has the history, the geography, and the creative energy to get there.
In our new piece, Youri Sawerschel and Bengül Melis Sawerschel unpack why: a manufacturing-first entry into global markets, a domestic economy that lets most brands skip the harder test of global competition, and a macro environment where long-term brand investment doesn't always pencil out.
But this is an invitation, not a conclusion. The same cultural depth that hasn't yet been translated into brand value is exactly what makes the opportunity so significant.
The conversation starts here.
Read the full piece on our website.
13 Jul 2026
The industry that preaches the 100-year life is still marketing like it ends at 50.
The longevity industry has built a compelling story about longer, healthier, more active lives. It has the science, the data, and the cultural momentum. What it has not done is follow its own logic. People over 55 control more than half of global spending and are roughly 10 percentage points more likely to stay loyal to everyday brands than the average consumer. They are, by any commercial measure, the most valuable audience in the market. They receive less than 10% of marketing investment.
If that does not make you uncomfortable, it should.
Read the full article at centremag.com
08 Jul 2026
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