30 Years On, Looking Back At The Fights Over The Louvre’s Pyramid

I.M. Pei’s glass structure may be a beloved icon now, but from the time the design was revealed to opening day, the resistance was ferocious. “A foreign body, showing such disregard for history.” “It’s not Dallas here!” One Académie Française member wrote an “appeal for insurrection.” And when Pei showed his design to the relevant national commission, his interpreter burst into tears. – The Art Newspaper

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