MARMARA CINI

The foundation of the firm is based on the indivudual research and implementations of Ismail Yigit who was graduated from Department of Ceramics, Faculty of Fine Arts at Marmara University during his education period. Ismail Yigit established a small workshop by the encouragement of Prof. Dr. Erdinc Bakla. After spending for years on the basics of the art his activities were classified as artistic and commercial productions. In a private workshop he started to produce the replicas of tiles belonging to the 14^th, 15^th, 16^th centuries which are the golden times of the Classical Ottoman Ceramics. The replicas produced by Ismail Yigit have been exhibited several times in the most famous art galleries and grand hotels in Turkey. Marmara Cini was established as a commercial branch of the art, constituting a group of selected artists trained for years.

Marmara Cini has had a goal to enrich the art in term of forms, patterns and concepts based on the handcraft. Regarding this idea, Marmara Cini has addressed its own target group and become a precious model for the amateur tile-makers. Through the competition on the traditional Turkish ceramics art, Cini production reached to a tempo which had not been seen in the near past and gave valuable examples.

Marmara Cini has enlarged its products by adding chinaware wall panels and tiles to the classical dishes, plates, vases, jugs, jars and bowls. The products of Marmara Cini has also served as a cultural attaché through the activities in Europe, the USA, the middle East Countries and Turkic Republics, aiming at publicising this art throughout the world. Intensive researches and efforts have helped Marmara Cini to produce “outdoor tiles” and “floor tiles” which are successful examples of recent times in spite of the difficulties in the nature of the art.

The restorations, “Istanbul Abdulmecit Pavilion” and Kazakhstan “The Complex of Hodja Ahmet Yasawi” and the decoration of pavilion belonging to the Jordanian Princess, Basma Binti Talal are among the most successful credentials of Marmara Cini, proving itself to be famed all over the world.