Ethnographic Museum - Sinop
Kefevi Quarter Kemaleddin Sami Paşa Street No: 9 is a typical late 18th century mansion. The foundation and ground floor are rubble stone and the main floors are wood carcass-brick mixture. The front facade of the mansion, which faces the street and the back facade of the building, is entered through the sentence door with skylight windows in the middle of the facade. The walls are built of rubble on the ground floor, which is separated by warehouse and large service areas, kitchen and fountain. The entrance to the right and left staircase leading from this dark floor to the upper floors is a wide pointed arch made of wood. The middle and upper floors, which have corner rooms with monumental protrusions on the sides, like the four-storey large Öküzoğulları Mansion, are similar in appearance to the symmetrical plan layout with a central hall, four iwans and a corner room at each corner. The wall painting combined with a rich wood carving on these floors, where all the walls and interior partitions are made of wood, shows how rich this house once looked. The sofas, which are bevelled square areas to give passage to the corner rooms, have elegant wooden chopped balustrades and poles on the iwan passages and stairways. In addition, flowers, bunches coming out of the vases between arches and ceiling borders show that they are made with a vivid contour and a romantic understanding with baroque color tone. The middle floor decoration, thought to be used as a salute, has a more measured and provincial character than the upper floor which should be used as a harem. In this floor, a wooden veneer with arched and striped slatted lining covers all interior and room walls, cedar shapes in corner rooms and rococo arched details such as bar and cavities stimulate the serious dimness created by this veneer. The upper floor, which is used as a harem, has been constructed with the same symmetrical planning, and has been decorated close to the contemporary Istanbul Rococo ornament with a color and light understanding appropriate to the other floors. On this floor, the room arrangement is cheered up by the effect of light coming from the window and sufficient light, the rich rococo floral curbs on the ceilings and the colorful flower bouquets on the cupboard doors are decorated with round arches and concave niches in Sinop. mansion. This magnificent interior effect should be considered together with the rich upholstered Ottoman life and the building that once opened to the whole sea view. The same kind of baroque folding, the romantic effect resulting from a bitter cheerfulness and opening to the landscape with this splendor, was created in Istanbul at that time in the rooms of the Abdulhamid I's Topkapı Palace harem apartment in a richer detailed and European rococo style. The red-veined marble imitating stukko application seen in a corner room in this baroque detail suggests that the craftsmen and calligraphers working in this mansion carried the Western-Christian influences of the capital or minority origin to Sinan's mansion in the 18th century. The mansion was restored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and today serves as the Ethnographic Museum.