Eternity projects
When the British Museum in London was in the process of acquiring its spectacular wave-form roof in the late 1990s, I contemplated donating a single triangular pane to sit among some 3,000 other non-identical panes making up the Museum’s iconic ceiling. I was tickled that my name would be engraved on a singular piece of strengthened glass and that all it would cost to bind myself into the fabric of this magnificent building was a couple of hundred pounds – the price of a pair of Eurostar tickets or a splash-out family meal. What motivated me was a feeling that I wanted to give something back to the old British Library, with its cartwheel seating
