Forget Me Not / Vergissmeinnicht

Stéphanie Baechler

BOO 293 N
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CONDITION & NOTES
New

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Softcover

2024

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Building Fictions 34 x 23 x 4 cm
CONDITION
New

TYPE
Softcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2024

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Building Fictions

DIMENSIONS
34 x 23 x 4 cm

ABOUT

The picturesque landscape of northeastern Switzerland is home to a diminishing number of Tröcknetürme and Hänggitürme: peculiar yet monumental wooden towers once used for drying dyed textiles. These structures are architectural remnants of the 19th century, when the region was a booming global centre of textile production.

 

This book records the life of these towers in two ways. First, photographer Ladina Bischof’s photo series documents the last remaining towers in Switzerland. Second, I share my research and process behind the production of a monumental public artwork installed at the Tröckneturm St. Gallen. Once myself a textile designer in St. Gallen, my intrigue for the towers soon became determination, not only to trace the histories of these structures and the work they accommodated but to give them visibility once again.