For the Bulgarian artist Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff, known as Christo, wrapping monuments is a way of emphasising the everyday and provoking the eye in a different way. The artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon had the idea of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in 1961. Entitled “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, Paris (1961-2021)”, their installation covered the monument with 269,097 sq. ft. (25,000 m²) of silver tarpaulins, attached by 3,000 metres of red rope. The work is posthumous, as Jeanne-Claude died in 2009 and Christo in 2020. The artists had already covered the Pont-Neuf in 1985 and the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995.