Was eine Kiefer ist

In every story in this book, it resonates: plants show us every day that everything is connected to everything else. They always create their own basis for life, time and again. And so they repeatedly become the center of our lives: In Hong Kong, the spider people build the tallest skyscrapers in the world on bamboo scaffolding. In Flanders, in the midst of a battlefield full of poppies, a poet finds hope once again. In Lusatia, people extract fibers from the stalks of flax using an ancient method and weave them into a fabric called linen. And in Vienna, the stars of the Alps sparkle in the hair of the empress. Florian Weiss and Lucia Jay von Seldeneck gather 30 plants in their new work and tell a story for each plant through text and image. Inspired by historical plant books and the aesthetics of old index cards, the Berlin design studio Wu combines the narratives and illustrations into a total work of art.