Restoration work has begun on the 123-year-old Botter Apartment, one of the symbolic structures of Istanbul’s historical Beyoğlu district.
Casa Botter (Botter Apartment), which was built in the 1900s on today’s Istiklal Street, was commissioned by Sultan Abdülhamid II for the palace’s fashion tailor Jean Botter. It was constructed by Italian architect Raimondo Tommaso D’Aronco to serve both as a fashion house and a home for the Botter family. It was the first building constructed in the Art Nouveau style in Istanbul.
