Abstract:

Indoor outfit culture which was shaped with structures such as couch, alcove and niche in Turkish-Islamic culture get into Westernization/Modernization process in 19th century. Intense political, economic and cultural relations with European countries were also effective in the initiation of this process. After the second half of the 19th century, Western style furniture started to be used instead of fixed indoor outfit which was shaped with the structure first of all in palaces and then in the houses of aristocracy. Use of Western style furniture became common in other sections of society in time. The first Western style furniture production began in the carpenters sections of Yıldız Palace which was named as Tamirhane-i Hümayun (Imperial Repair-shop) and founded by II. Abdulhamid. Carpenters, upholster masters and engravers who were trained in this workshop where Sultan Abdulhamid, as a skilled carpenter himself, also worked and made great effort for its development left the palace after the section was closed and founded their own furniture workshops which resulted in the improvement of furniture production in the final period of Ottoman Empire and first years of Republican Period. Within the scope of this study, the reflections and contributions of development of furniture production in the last period of Ottoman Empire on primarily Tamirhane-i Hümayun and Istanbul School of Industry (Dersaadet Sanayi Mektebi) and on furniture production in cities such as Izmir, Bursa, Diyarbakır, Kastamonu İşkodra, Bosnia and on institutions which give technical education about furniture and furniture production becoming a sector in Republican period. It was aimed that the study would serve as a written resource for other studies in art of Turkish furniture and furniture production.

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