书名：The Eiffel Tower/埃菲尔铁塔
作者：Bertrand Lemoine
出版：TASCHEN，2021
装帧：精装，176页
语种：英语/德语/法语
尺寸：29.6 x 42 cm

当古斯塔夫·埃菲尔（Gustave Eiffel）于1889年为世界博览会完成他在巴黎战神广场（Champ de Mars）的铁塔时，他自认为这是世界上最高的建筑。尽管纽约的克莱斯勒大厦在41年后超过了埃菲尔铁塔，但它并没有失去其崇高地位：最初只获准存在20年，后来却成为巴黎天际线上一个令人着迷的永久建筑物。埃菲尔铁塔每年接待约700万游客，它白天居高临下，夜晚熠熠生辉，让世界各地的法国爱好者、作家、艺术家和梦想家都为之着迷。

本书在古斯塔夫·埃菲尔本人撰写的原版限量版对开本基础上，探讨了这座非凡建筑的概念和结构。埃菲尔的标志性设计通过双页图版、细致的图纸和现场照片得以展现，包括新的图像和更多历史背景。本书既介绍了这座复古建筑瑰宝，又提供了对这一代表性作品背后思想的独到见解。

“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, scrape an even higher sky, the Eiffel Tower lost none of its lofty wonder: originally granted just a 20-year permit, the Tower became a permanent and mesmerizing fixture on the Parisian skyline. Commanding by day, twinkling by night, it has mesmerized Francophiles and lovers, writers, artists, and dreamers from all over the world, welcoming around seven million visitors every single year.

Based on an original, limited edition folio by Gustave Eiffel himself, this fresh TASCHEN edition explores the concept and construction of this remarkable building. Step by step, one latticework layer after another, Eiffel’s iconic design evolves over double-page plates, meticulous drawings, and on-site photographs, including new images and even more historical context. The result is at once a gem of vintage architecture and a unique insight into the idea behind an icon.