William McNicol Whyte, a Scottish architect introduced ‘French Second Empire’ to Glasgow. In doing so he put two fingers up to ‘established taste’:
[to play a short film about William McNicol Whyte please click here]
Music credit: Emigre – by Alela Diane
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