09/13/2026
There’s a game that travels. We call it tavla; cross a border or two and it answers to other names — but the clatter of the dice sounds the same in every language. Today two friends visiting from Chicago settled in with a board and two cups of Turkish coffee, and reminded us why we opened these doors: not to sell a thing, but to make a place where a shared afternoon feels a little like home — wherever home happens to be. Thank you, Anna and Caroline, for letting us capture it.