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Giirsan Ergil points to atiny smudge inthe Sea of
Marmara. "That's where Ottoman ministers
were hanged after the 1961 coup," he says.
Ergil is leading me around Biiyiikada, one of
the Princes' Islands offthe coast of Istanbui,
and he's not afraid ofsprinkling in the (occa-
sionally gruesome) anecdote.
Itwas here on this stuck-in-time Shangri-La
- where horse-drawn carriages and bikes
are the only modes of transport - his love of
gardens was born. "In my grandmother's gar-
den, we had big lunches under the shade ofa
monumental flg, and my cousin and I wouldsneak out to spend whole nights under it," he
recalls. Last summer, Ergil initiated tours of
the islands' historic villas and their secreted
gardens; he is writing a "half-touristic, half-
academic" book about them - a couplet of
unprecedented, awareness-raising endeavors.
With the serenity of a metronome and an
artist's penchant for abstraction, Ergil is an
unlikely activist. But after six years studying
at Harward's Arnold Arboretum. he returned
to Istanbui alarmed at a construction boom
that Ieft each citizen an average ofone square
yard ofgreenery. That grim statistic inspired
him to present "mobile gardens" - portable
green spaces carried like a backpack or pulied
by a flatbed - at last year's Istanbul Design
Week. Though seemingly tongue-in-cheeh,
Giir s an E rg il's urniture de sig ns us e r e claime dmaterials, in a benchfrom old vats (top) and a
b ir dh o u s e fr o m a mmunit io n b o x e s (c ente r left).Sculpture, like this l6th-century tomb post(center right) orfrom modern Turkish sculptorMehmet Aksoy (bottom), plays arole inErgil'slandscape design.
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