Artwork Description
ON HOLD Christo and Jeanne-Claude – Wrapped Building, Project for 1 Times Square, New York, Allied Chemical Plant
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.75″ framed / 28 x 22.25″
Year: 1985
Medium: lithograph in colors, with collage of fabric, thread, polyethylene and staples
Edition: ed. SJC 11/26
The Wrapped Building, Project for 1 Times Square, New York, Allied Chemical Plant is a 1991 conceptual art project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. It proposed wrapping the iconic, then-Allied Chemical-owned tower in fabric and rope, visualized through collages featuring fabric, polyethylene, and twine, though it was never physically realized.