desirePlate 484 · Istanbul, Turkey

Dolmabahçe Palace

A European palace on the Bosphorus, because an empire wanted to look like the West.

1856 · Garabet and Nigoğayos Balyan · Europe

The chamber score

Mevlevi Ayin in Rast

Ottoman court · Istanbul

Domes built to turn.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The 19th-century imperial palace, a crystal hall of Ottoman modernity.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Dolmabahçe Palace through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Dolmabahçe Palace was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.