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Architecture of Truth
The Cistercian Abbey of Le Thoronet
A pictorial tribute to one of the wonders of 12th-century architecture.
Photographs by Lucien Hervé
Editions:
Price: USD$59.95
600 points- Hardback
- English
- 290 x 250 mm, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in
- 160 pp
- ISBN-13: 9780714840031
- ISBN-10: 0714840033
- 67 Duotone Images
- A pictorial tribute to Le Thoronet Abbey in Provence, one of the wonders of 12th-century Christian monastic architecture
- Beautiful duotone reproductions of a classic set of photographs taken in the mid-1950s by architectural photographer and artist Lucien Hervé, who used the changing effect of daylight to present the building over the course of one day
- Includes a foreword by Le Corbusier and an essay by a monk of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Sept-Fons, providing an insight into the Cistercian order
- Elegant clothbound edition specially designed by architect John Pawson
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