Eiffel Tower secret apartment opened to public

After being off limits for many years, a private apartment that nestles at the top of the Eiffel Tower has opened to the public.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel himself, the luxurious private apartment is small, but it’s location on the tower’s third tier, 276 metres above street level ensured it immediately became Paris’s most salubrious address. Members of late nineteenth century Parisian high society would frequently offer small fortunes to rent the space for a night, but Eiffel always refused. The engineer preferred to use the apartment to entertain prestigious guests such as Thomas Edison.

The small flat is decorated with soft chintze, oil painting, wooden cabinets and a grand piano - interior design described in 1889 as "furnished in the simple style dear to scientists."

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