Christo and Jeanne-Claude

 

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On September 22, 1985, a group of 300 professional workers completed the temporary work of art The Pont Neuf Wrapped. They had deployed 40,876 square meters (454,178 square feet) of woven polyamide fabric, silky in appearance and golden sandstone in color, covering:

The sides and vaults of the twelve arches, without hindering river traffic.

The parapets down to the ground.

The sidewalks and curbs (pedestrians walked on the fabric).

All the street lamps on both sides of the bridge.

The vertical part of the embankment of the western tip of the Ile de la Cité.

The esplanade of the "Vert-Galant".

The fabric was restrained by 13,076 meters (42,900 feet) of rope and secured by 12.1 metric tons (11.8 long tons) of steel chains encircling the base of each tower, 1 meter (3.3 feet ) underwater.