The Anonymous Widower

Irving Sellar Does A Guy De Maupassant

Prufrock in the Sunday Times reported that Irving Sellar, who developed the Shard, has his own table in the restaurant on floor 32.

He must only be following the reasoning of Guy de Maupassant, who often  ate lunch in the Eiffel Tower. Wikipedia says this.

Maupassant was but one of a fair number of 19th-century Parisians who did not care for the Eiffel Tower; indeed, he often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base, not out of any preference for the food, but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile.

So does Irvine Sellar feel like that about the monstrous Shard?

May 22, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | World | Architecture, London, The Shard