It took four years of planning and 270,000 square feet of silver polypropylene fabric to wrap the Arc de Triomphe from its crown to its giant feet. It cost over $16 million to install, but will only ...
In Paris this weekend, traffic stopped and crowds gathered to see the Arc de Triomphe transformed: the huge monument wrapped in shimmering, fabric, tied in place with red rope – the colors subtly ...
When famous artist Christo died in 2020, many people assumed his work would come to an end too. However, his team, including his nephew, has come together to finally realize his decades-long wish to ...
Christo’s unrealized final dream to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris has finally come to fruition, more than a year after the artist’s death. French president Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the ...
Over the course of his iconic career, the artist known as Christo has navigated extraordinary logistics in order to wrap buildings and bridges in his signature colorful fabric. He and his wife ...