Collection
Plaques, frames and little boxes that hold the details of the very first days.
The first days go by quickly; their details don’t have to. Name, birth date and time, first measurements, the first curl, a tiny handprint — kept on a plaque, in a box or behind glass, still in place years later. Every piece is made one at a time in İstanbul; you tell us the name, we keep the day.
The crafts, rituals and small moments behind these pieces — for the evenings when the house is finally quiet.
Plaster & Clay
When a baby arrives, everything turns towards them; the belly that carried them for nine months survives only in photographs. A plaster belly cast keeps that shape in three dimensions — an old craft mothers have rediscovered. The story of the cast we made in an İstanbul kitchen one Saturday morning while I was expecting Hamza Bera.
· 4 min read
Plaster & Clay
When my third son was a week old we pressed his palm into a handful of plaster. That hand is bigger than mine now — but the print is still a week old. Why plaster and clay make such tender keepsakes, and how to start at home.
· 3 min read
Mother & Baby
Zehra Topaç has taught English for many years. She recalls the moment her nine-year-old son fell into an excited conversation about Harry Potter with a guest from Greece — and why teaching a child a new language means opening a door onto the world.
· 2 min read