RUYA MOCAN

RM has built its name from elegantly unrestrained magnificence on the aesthetic sensibility and talent of its founder, Ruya Mocan, who once said of herself: "I am an Ottoman, and I want a mix of cultures." This is true in a number of interesting ways... Among her ancestors she can count Fethi Ahmet Pasha, who in the 18th century served as the first Ottoman Ambassador to Vienna. In 1732 he also built the famous Mocan Yali (also known more simply as the Pink House), which is the perhaps most elegant of all Istanbul's waterside mansions.

Primary location: London United Kingdom