ORIENTAL MONKEY
Brand name Oriental Monkey, drives from Zeynep Orberk Büyükuğur’s interest of Far and Middle East, and love for nature and animal kingdom.
She aims to combine the mystery of East with the aesthetics of West, with a touch of zest of cultures that was once alive on Anatolian lands. Rich and playful, carrying the flavors of the ancient times, Oriental Monkey is a synthesis of the past and the future.
All pieces 18 k gold, precious Stones like diamond, red coral, topaz, and semi precious stones like amethyst, chrysophase, lapis lazuli, turquoise, moonstone, aquamarine, peridot, citrine are the materials.
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ZEYNEP ORBERK BÃœYÃœKUÄžUR
FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Born in İstanbul, 1968, she started her professional career Gelişim Publishing House, one of the biggest and finest publishing houses of Turkey, at the advertising department in at a very young age between 1989- 1993. She continued working in advertising since 1997, in the advertising department of Hürriyet Newspaper before she become the fashion editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. Being a huge fashion lover herself, it did not take long for her to become the first fashion director of ELLE magazine in 1999.
After 7 years in ELLE magazine, she became the editör in chief of Madame Figaro magazine for 6 years until 2010. Following up the as the editor in chief of Martha Stewart magazine, she moved to London. She lives in London and Istanbul, travelling between the two cities.
She founded her personal jewellery brand in 2020. But before that she already started designing pieces for herself, family and close friends working with the artisans she became friends through years, in Grand Bazaar, for almost 10 years. Being an avid traveller, she used to collect jewellery from around the World and getting inspiration from all these different cultures, she created an understanding of a design attitude which mixes all these cultures and approaches with her sophisticated style.
With an understated and non-flamboyant, yet sophisticated and timeless approach to jewellery, she started to work with a group of Turkish and Armenian artisans who come from families from the industry in Grand Bazaar, for at least 100 years.
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