Winter wraps: famous for draping the Pont Neuf in Paris with silky fabric, artists Christo and Jean-Claude turn to the natural world - covering trees in shimmering polyester. (project to cover 174 trees in silver fabric at the Beyeler Fondation Museum, Riehen, Switzerland, beginning Nov 1998)(Brief Article)

From: House Beautiful | Date: November 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

For their next project, Christo and Jeanne-Claude will swathe 174 trees in silvery fabric at the new Beyeler Foundation Museum in Riehen, Switzerland, near Basel. The couple, who have marked the contours of open land with miles of nylon ("Running Fence," California, 1976) and draped many historic monuments (an ancient wall in Rome, the Reichstag in Berlin), have been dreaming of a large-scale tree-wrapping project since 1966, but have had difficulty obtaining permits. After being turned down for such locations as the sculpture garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the ...

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