A conversation with Hikmet Şükrü Ertangün, founder of Standart Consultancy — on the invisible order behind high-value private residences. 1. Let’s start at the beginning. What is Standart Consultancy?...
Türkiye is one of the world's most desirable wedding destinations. The hard part is not the venue — it is knowing who represents you, and how. On independent oversight...
The Aegean is a fire landscape and always has been. A house cannot argue with that — it can only be ready. And readiness is measured on the way...
For most of their history, significant private residences have been run the way they were run a century ago: through the memory of trusted people, the habits of a...
A superyacht and a significant villa are, in most respects that matter operationally, the same problem. Both are complex, high-value assets exposed to a punishing environment, staffed by a...
A family of significant wealth governs almost everything it owns. The operating companies have boards. The portfolio is reported on quarterly. The aircraft flies under a management agreement with...
Residence governance is the owner-side discipline that gives significant private homes structure, memory and accountability. A first-principles guide to an emerging field.
A marina story is usually told in three numbers. The real change is quieter: a harbour changes not access but arrival — and how a peninsula is remembered.
Two houses on the same coast can age in opposite directions. The difference is rarely money. It is residence governance — the quiet constitution behind a private house.
Bodrum's next houses are already built — in miniature. The summers of 2027 and 2028 exist as scale models, signed by SAOTA, Han Tümertekin and Jean-Michel Gathy. One question...