It traces the popularity of coffee and tobacco, especially in the form of cigarettes, to Turkish origins, as well as sorbet desserts and croissant pastry. Turkish carpets were used for table coverings as well as for floors and Turkish tiles were used in a variety of decorative ways. The divan and ottoman for seating and portable tables known as tabourets were imported from Turkey. Garden tents, pavilions and kiosks of Turkish design became a European craze. Turkish cats were bred under the name Persian and became one of the most popular feline pet breeds.
Mohair comes from the Ankara goat.
J.E. Liotard, John Frederick Lewis, and Pierre Matisse, famous for his languid odalisques. In no other area was Turkish design more pervasive than in the production and design of fabrics, especially Ottoman silks with their stylized floral patterns of tulips and pomegranates that became the cloth of choice for royal and ecclesiastical robes in Europe beginning in the 16th century. It was to Turkish silks that Leon Bakst and Serge Diaghilev turned to costume their Ballet Russes in the early 20th century when Russian composers Aleksandr Borodin, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Mikhail Glinka were generous in their use of Turkish musical tonalities. The Orient Express railroad service made the cultural exchange even easier after it linked Paris and Constantinople in 1888. Turkish influence, except for coffee and cigarettes, was slow to infiltrate the United States, but a bandstand pavilion in the style of a Turkish tent was one of the first structures to be built in New York's new Central Park just after the Civil War.