Öykü Thurston's history is tied to the magic of felt since childhood, when he was ten years in Japan begins to learn the secrets of the production. Many years later, in 2006 opened Art.I.Choke, his shop and workshop in Istanbul (Çukurcuma, Faikpaşa Sokuşu, 1 http://www.artichoke212.com/ ). Even today, when he speaks of the felt, with her big brown eyes, evokes an almost magical. He works alone in his studio, with its pure natural fibers, with the olive oil soap and hot water that are used for felting. He says he felt the soul lives and breathes. Remains enchanted while under the hand follows the soft wrinkles that are forming, and veins that unexpectedly show the path of a design, shape, and without prior notice giving rise to a stole or a flower hat.
The felt gives its leaders a sense of metamorphosis that cancels the boundaries between tiers of silk and wool and makes the subtle shift in the flax or hemp soft combinations of different types of fibers. Öykü also use hemp, soy, bamboo. The attention to the quality of the fibers is greatest. The wool is used exclusively Australian or English, the silk is bought in Japan. In a few scattered field goal in the studio you can see small skeins of raw linen or silk cocoons naturally. Even attention to the house is very much alive in the creations of Art.i.choke (are beautiful rugs and blankets). Öykü is an architect who studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. The site is well worth Art.i.choke of Çukurcuma a visit for the atmosphere of the rooms. Among bright windows and antique mirrors, exposed clothes, bags, slippers and even some small soaps wrapped in felt like soft beige and white pebbles .. Öykü loves to remember what the felt is deeply tied to ancient traditions of his homeland. At one time, to take refuge during the night, the soft downy fiber surfaces became insidious scorpions and secure shelter for the sleep of men. 
After millennia of history, this tradition of craftsmanship that just in Central Asia and Turkey has further improved, becomes, in the able hands of Öykü Thurston, a valuable source of inspiration unusual for elegance, sophistication, and also ... label. http://www.premionapoli.it/2008/istambul.html
(The Gazette Istanbul Year XVII, No. 3 March 2009)
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