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Eiffel Tower
$22.00
Three hundred metres of wrought iron above the Champ de Mars. Built for the 1889 World's Fair and meant to come down after twenty years; it stayed because the engineers found a way to make it useful as a radio tower. The current paint is a custom three-tone brown, darker at the base and lighter at the top so the upper levels read against the sky. After sundown the gold lighting comes on and stays on, and for five minutes at the top of every hour, until one in the morning, the whole lattice sparkles. The closer you walk to it, the less of it you can see in a single frame.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.