A clash between artists and industrialists
"A half-built factory pipe, a carcass waiting to be fleshed out with freestone or brick, a funnel-shaped grill, a hole-riddled suppository" - Joris-Karl Huysmans.
Like many artists & intellectuals of the day, Huysmans really didn't hold back in his criticism of the Eiffel Tower.
Beginning construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1887. (FPG/Getty Images)
