{"id":33266,"date":"2016-06-28T23:12:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T03:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=33266"},"modified":"2016-06-28T23:12:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T03:12:29","slug":"a-bit-of-beauty-for-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-bit-of-beauty-for-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Beauty for Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the jewelry designers I admire most is <a href=\"http:\/\/thewindow.barneys.com\/turkish-delights-meet-sevan-bicakci\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sevan Bi\u00e7ak\u00e7i of Istanbul<\/a>. In 2014, the New York Times described one of Sevan&#8217;s specialities as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/05\/style\/international\/sevan-bicakcis-jewelry-celebrates-istanbuls-heritage.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">dome-shaped rings that celebrate the city\u2019s Byzantine and Ottoman heritage<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example chosen by jewelry editor <a href=\"http:\/\/marionfasel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marion Fasel<\/a> as a tribute to the people who have been affected by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/06\/28\/europe\/turkey-istanbul-airport-attacks\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the attack on Istanbul&#8217;s airport today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BHOGH_cBTQP\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Ring by the one and only #Sevan of birds flying over the Bosphorus. \u2728 My thoughts are with my friends in #Istanbul tonight. ? Taken @sevanbicakcijewellery studio in that \u2728 magical city in 2009 #prayforistanbul<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A photo posted by M A R I O N   F A S E L (@marionfasel) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-29T01:38:53+00:00\">Jun 28, 2016 at 6:38pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Just a little bit of beauty to counter all the ugliness.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the jewelry designers I admire most is Sevan Bi\u00e7ak\u00e7i of Istanbul. In 2014, the New York Times described one of Sevan&#8217;s specialities as &#8220;dome-shaped rings that celebrate the city\u2019s Byzantine and Ottoman heritage.&#8221; Here&#8217;s an example chosen by jewelry editor Marion Fasel as a tribute to the people who have been affected by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-bit-of-beauty-for-istanbul\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,87],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-in-the-news","7":"category-jewelry-designer","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33269,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266\/revisions\/33269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}