Adieu Vieille Europe by François Wavre and Chris Gautschi
To commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War in 2018, Swiss photographer François Wavre and designer Chris Gautschi teamed up to conceive and design a book entitled Adieu Vieille Europe (“Farewell Old Europe”).
The book is meant as a window on the intimacy of war protagonists through transcripts of letters and shipped photographs. All of them are from Wavre’s personal collection. He began collecting them after being moved by the reading of a letter he found by accident.
Designed with a combination of SangBleu Kingdom and Suisse Int’l by Gautschi, the book is constructed as a cinematic narrative and not as a documentary work.
This project has been crowdfunded on the wemakeit platform.
24 pages, 170×250 mm, available from Payot bookshop.
