The Arc de Triomphe wrapped >> original and stunning

From September 18 to October 3, 2021 – Free for the view from the outside — Beautiful at night!

The principle : to make the Arc de Triomphe disappear under 25,000 square meters of recyclable fabric
The artists : this is Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s last temporary work
When : September 18 to October 3, 2021
Opening hours : to see it from the inside: from 10 am to 10 pm
Age : for young and old
Location : Arc de Triomphe, at the top of the Champs-Elysées
Price : to climb to the top of the Arc de Triomphe: 16 euros per person
Free : for children under 7 years old

To admire the Arc de Triomphe wrapped, you just have to pass in front of it. This is probably the best way to see how Christo’s installation will look. And it’s free!. It’s a nice family idea for this fall. At night the effect is absolutely magnificent. It’s spectacular, the drapery is luminous and gives mystery to the Arc de Triomphe.

La dernière oeuvre de Christo

This temporary installation is the last work of the artist Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude.

The artist Christo, well known to Parisians since the wrapping of the Pont-Neuf in 1985, had planned to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in 2020
The installation was cancelled due to Covid. It was finally carried out posthumously, according to Christo’s wish who wanted the project to continue after his death (in May 2020)
The Arc de Triomphe is packaged by “Les Charpentiers de Paris” in 25,000 square meters of recyclable fabric in bluish silver polypropylene and 3000 meters of red rope of the same material

Why wrap the Arc de Triomphe?

“It will be like a living object that will come to life in the wind and reflect the light. The folds will move, the surface of the monument will become sensual,” Christo explained when presenting his final project, two years before his death. We were doubtful! We saw it during the day: ok! We saw it at night: SPECTACULAR!!

Why this choice of colors?

It is a reference to the colors of the French flag (bluish fabric, white of the sky and red strings),

What technical feat?

To wrap the Arc de Triomphe, it took 25,000^m2 of canvas on which was sprayed 1 kg of aluminum, 3,000 meters of ropes, 312 tons of steel structure.
1,000 people were mobilized, including 50 rope access workers rappelling down from the top of the Arc de Triomphe to deploy the canvas from eight-meter-wide rolls weighing more than a ton.
In all, 2 months of assembly and 5 weeks of dismantling…