An upmarket mall with 250 shops, a food court, cinema and one of the city's better Italian restaurants, Paper Moon. But its infuriating design means it's hard to find your way...

A shop attracting a more sophisticated breed of antiquarian, with three spacious display rooms and a prime location in the passage just across from KV Café. It has a fine...

Beymen started life as a men's clothing store, but is now synonymous with designer clothing and accessories for men and women, combining own-label products with select...

Tins, pins, coins and toys, from clanky cars to planes and tanks. There's a surprising amount of Turkish stuff, dating mostly from Ottoman and early republic times, including...

Europe's biggest mall, and the second largest in the world; its six storeys can seem confusing, especially in the absence of floor plans - there seems to be just one on each...

A select assortment of furniture, doors, oil lamps and copperware, mostly picked up in rural Anatolia. You'll find things like low-legged dough-rolling tables, wooden butter...

Ethnicon (short for 'ethnic contemporary') creates kilims with a modern twist. They are made without child labour and using environmentally friendly processes, so colours tend...

The latest addition to Istanbul's mall society, this is a mall with a difference. Open to, yet sheltered from, the elements, its canyon-inspired design houses 170...

A massive selection of antique clothes, costumes, hats, embroidered linens, wall hangings and tapestries collected by Leyla Seyhanlı, an old hand in the business. Prices are...

Like Kanyon across the road, this four-storey mall is served by a direct link to the metro. What's different is that it pitches to a far more middle-of-the-road clientele....

The east end of the Egyptian Bazaar was once crammed with stores in the trousseau (çeyiz) business. In days of yore, young ladies were wheeled along by their female relatives...

This stylish shop on three floors, a favourite with Istanbul's upwardly mobile, is Turkey's answer to Habitat. Head to the basement for kitchenware, basic china and glass, the...

A favourite with visiting artists and locals alike, this eclectic shop specialises in rare books, furniture and knick-knacks from the 1950s.

Once a week, in most Istanbul neighbour-hoods, a few streets are taken over by the mahalle pazarı, or local market. The awnings go up, wooden stalls jam the streets, and...