When Gustave Eiffel designed the most famous landmark in Paris, the Eiffel Tower, he included a private apartment for himself at the top.<\/p>\n
Find out more about the little-known space in the video below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Now that\u2019s an enviable penthouse<\/a>!<\/p>\n \u201cThe object of general envy\u201d among Parisians during his lifetime, no one else was allowed access to it.<\/p>\n In his book La Tour de Trois Cent M\u00e9tres <\/em>(The 300 Meter Tower<\/em>), author\u00a0Henri Girard\u00a0says Parisians offer up \u201ca small fortune\u201d to rent his private space for a single night.<\/p>\n But Eiffel consistently refused, preferring to do his work there in private with esteemed guests, including Thomas Edison according to Explorer Geo.<\/a><\/p>\n Unlike the steel and hard lines of the Eiffel Tower surrounding it, the pied \u00e0 terre is cozy.<\/p>\n It has paisley wallpaper, wood furniture, and oil paintings \u2013 and the best views of Paris. <\/p>\n The nest, which sits 1,000 above the ground, is now\u00a0open for the public to tour.<\/p>\n The post There is a secret apartment at the top of the Eiffel Tower<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Gustave Eiffel designed the most famous landmark in Paris, the Eiffel Tower, he included a private apartment for himself at the top. Find out more about the little-known space in the video below: Now that\u2019s an enviable penthouse! \u201cThe object of general envy\u201d among Parisians during his lifetime, no one else was allowed access …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}