Andrew Leahey on Nostr: I like to imagine Gustave Eiffel dropping the news that it'd have to be repainted ...
I like to imagine Gustave Eiffel dropping the news that it'd have to be repainted every 7 years at the ribbon cutting.
"The Tower has been re-painted 19 times since… construction, an average of once every 7 years. It has changed colour several times, passing from red-brown to yellow-ochre, then to chestnut brown and finally to the bronze of today, slightly shaded off towards the top to ensure that the colour is perceived to be the same all the way [to] the Paris sky.”
https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/painting-eiffel-towerPublished at
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