Lord Sainsbury didn’t like the design of the wing his family funded. He paid for it though, and slipped a 1990 letter into a pillar during construction. Construction workers found it 33 years later.
In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty ImagesLONDON – Hidden in a pillar he funded yet despised, Lord Sainsbury finally got the last word.
Sainsbury, whose family founded the Sainsbury's supermarket chain in the late 19th century, was then chairman of his family's conglomerate, which also owns Shaw's supermarkets in the United States.a major extension of London's National Gallery. The family also donated paintings to the museum, including works by Degas, Gauguin, Monet and Rousseau. The Sainsbury Wing was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II in July 1991.
"LET IT BE KNOWN THAT ONE OF THE DONORS OF THIS BUILDING IS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED THAT YOUR GENERATION HAS DECIDED TO DISPENSE WITH THESE UNNECESSARY COLUMNS," he wrote and signed, on Sainsbury's letterhead.that his father's brother and fellow donor, the late Simon Sainsbury, forged a"compromise," convincing John Sainsbury to go ahead with their donation, in exchange for registering his dissent about the design, in the form of this secret letter.
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