İSTANBUL’DA FAAL OLAN OSMANLI KAHVEHANELERİNDE İÇ MEKÂN TEFRİŞ VE DEKORASYONU

As a place of socialization, coffeehouses have played an important role in the social and cultural life of Turkey since the Ottoman Empire. Istanbul, the capital of the Empire for 470 years, is home to many places that reflect the rich history and traditions of these coffeehouses. However, the Ottoman coffeehouses, which continued their activities from the 1500s until the early 1900s, gradually began to close down due to the effects of the changing social life and were replaced by places such as casinos, patisseries, tea gardens, and today they are replaced by modern cafes. Due to this change, the interior designs of coffeehouses, which are an important component of urban culture and architectural heritage, are a phenomenon that is about to be erased from urban memory. In this study, it is aimed to determine the changes in the interior furnishing and decoration designs of the coffeehouses that continue to operate in Istanbul from the Ottoman period to the present day. Field researches and on-site observations were carried out in parallel with the literature review. The information on the past obtained from the literature was supported by the information obtained from the interviews with the venue operators and compared with today's data obtained from on-site observations, and a change analysis and situation determination was made. As a result of the research, it was observed that Kadırga Havuzlu Kahve, Pierre Loti Kahvehanesi and Kanlıca İsmailağa Kahvehanesi are the places that best preserve the period characteristics with the furniture that constitutes the main elements of decoration and the space formatting that continues the classical order in the twelve coffeehouses examined.