WITHIN WALLS

Şebnem Buhara is a person in motion — even when she is standing still. Founder of BOU Design Studio and one of Turkey’s most recognized interior architects, she has spent the better part of three decades pushing herself and her work toward something more. This year, she chose a different direction: inward. Inside her Istanbul…

  Designer Doruk Kubilay on rhythm, layering, and the restless mind that refuses to simplify.   Doruk Kubilay does not seek stillness. He seeks density — in thought, in texture, in the spaces he creates. Inside the Studio Lugo atelier, where surfaces accumulate meaning and nothing is placed without intention, he speaks about what it…