Asiaminor Atelier is a small jeweller’s workshop located in the cosmopolitan centre of Istanbul and mainly works with silver. Combining the ancient and modern aesthetics, the Atelier creates meticulously and elaborately handcrafted, unique and contemporary jewellery by combining its distinctive technique, experience, materials and artistic style with historic artistic and cultural means of expressions, such as Anatolian motifs and techniques.
Based on becoming a place of co-expression of artistic creation and taking its current name in 2016, Asiaminor Atelier produces each piece by merging craftsmanship and art, infused with patience. In the Atelier, a primitive art regime prevails where ancient technologies are employed, kinesthetic memory and skill are relied upon, no moulds are used and no electrical devices exist, except for a punching and polishing machine.

Asiaminor Atelier takes pleasure in creating its distinctive style by blending contemporary appreciation with the rich and colourful world of the past, distilled through the ages from all peoples and arts of Anatolia and Mesopotamia, which is regarded as the birthplace of jewellery and metalworking. Rooted in old İstanbul’s jewellery craftsmanship and born in Beyoglu, the culture and art centre of the cosmopolitan city, Asiaminor Atelier’s sources of inspiration are very diverse, reflecting these locations’ abundance in cultural richness: The aesthetic relationship between the primitive use of jewellery making technique and pre-historic motifs and patterns; interpretation of religious symbols; figurative calligraphy; Middle Age Seljukian and the Ottoman tulip and carnation motifs laden with Sufi and earthly concepts; patterns and motifs from woven scatter rugs; works of modern art and architectural structures; day to day objects; music; human forms and actions; the nature itself and the images found within it such as flowers blossoming with an awe-inspiring delicateness and harmony or a tree branch laden with fruits; movements of substances, and states of materials when they melt together, integrate with and transform each other… In other words, man-made and nature’s battleground of the cosmopolitan world inspires Asiaminor Atelier with all its figures, textures, melodies, structures, images, sensuality, states and conditions.
Asiaminor Atelier is enthusiastic and eager to make discoveries while playing with variations of shape, colour and texture while allowing materials organically evolve into new forms. This approach manifests in designs with a touch of functionality, simplicity, beauty and precision as well as combining the past and present of Anatolia.
Jewellery reflects cultural characteristics and elements, yet it is also a personal form of expression. Asiaminor Atelier seeks to create pieces of jewellery with such uniqueness so it can be passed down through generations and to reflect both personality and inner world of the user.