The Eiffel Tower

by Bertrand Lemoine

Book Overview

"The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn't made, somehow, in the Tower's name."
-- Roland Barthes

When Gustave Eiffel completed his wrought iron tower on Paris's Champ de Mars for the World's Fair in 1889, he laid claim to the tallest structure in the world. Though the Chrysler Building would, 41 years later,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836584417
• ISBN13: 9783836584418
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.7" x 16.8"