\u00ab\u00a0Figures of the Cathedral Our Lady of Strasbourg\u201d is a publication that came out of a ten-month photographic examination conducted by Laurent Weyl on the iconic semi Romanesque Gothic landmark. With texts from Guillaume Jan in French, German and English the book tells the story of the people that constantly work to maintain this what Goethe named a \u201csublimely towering, wide-spreading tree of God\u201d build in various temporalities by countless hands.<\/p>\n
The cover is referencing the typical reddish-brown sandstone from the Vosges mountains that was used to erected the Cathedral. Spotting some Medieval Proto-Renaissance inscriptions in the images of Weyl we opted to use the typeface Albertus that was named after the medieval philosopher and thinker Albertus Magnus. It was an uncanny fact that we learned later that the iconography of the tympanum and archivolts of the late 13th-century portal of Strasbourg Cathedral was inspired by Albert\u2019s writings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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