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While Kaya Kalaycı was telling his story, we looked unwillingly to copper works
some of whose are hanged on the wall, some are one tables, some are on
the floors like works of art. All of them are marvellous..
Kaya Kalaycı tells his family’s story starting from the great grandfather
Artin Usta 6 . Artin Usta who is the greatest grandfather
that influenced copper with his hammer, immigrated
from Yalova to Istanbul in World War I, in the
beginning of 1900s and he set up his copper studio
in Grand Bazaar, in this beautiful city that he
opened a new page in his life. He dealed with
the manufacture of pots and pans for long
years. Because of the old age of Artin
Usta, Haçik Usta took over the studio as
second generation. When the Word
comes to his grandfather Haçik, Kaya
Usta can’t help mentioning where
the ‘Kalaycı 7 ’ surname comes from.
Haçik Usta manufactured copper
pots for Ataturk and dealt with
their maintenance and tinning.
Ataturk, by taking into consideration
his work, gave ‘Kalaycı’
surname to Haçik Usta, or as he
called ‘Haçan Usta’, in 1934.
After Haçik Usta, as third generation,
Artin Kalaycı headed the
studio. The flag that the Kalaycı
family carries for more than one
century, now is in the hands of
Kaya Kalaycı.
He Could Enter the Boğaziçi
University, He Chose Coppersmithing
We asked to Kaya Kalaycı that dealing
with family bussiness is whether his
choice or not. According to what Kalaycı
told, the father Artin Usta wanted his son to
be educated. He was insistent about his son’s,
who was in Alman (German) High School, education,
not his being a shammer. But Kaya Kalaycı refused
university education although he could enter the
Boğaziçi University, the department of Tourism and Hotel
Management.
Kaya Usta connects his choice and seeing his future in coppersmithing
somewhat to the studio atmosphere and says: “In that period, all the well-
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