In Autumn 1998, after the trees around Fondation Beyeler and in the Berower Park had shed their leaves, **Christo and Jeanne-Claude** wrapped 162 trees-some up to 25 meters high-with 55,000 m2 of polyester fabric and 23.1 km of rope. For wrapping they used the type of veil that is traditionally used in japan to protect trees against the winter snow and frost. The effect of the wind on the translucent fabric and the rope created and ever-changing variety of shapes, surfaces, and colors.

Many years of research had gone into reaching this stage, at which point Christo and Jeanne-Claude had worked on trees for over 30 years. In 1966, they wrapped a 10-meter high tree in a personal exhibition in the Stedelijk van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. In the same year they worked on a wrapped trees project for Forest Park in Saint Louis, Missouri, and in 1968 for the Museum of Modern Art In New York. In 1969 "Two Wrapped Trees" were exhibited in Sydney. In the same year an ambitious project to wrap 330 trees along the Champs Elysées failed to gain authorisation from the Prefect of Paris. **This project in the park of the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Basel, Switzerland (until January 24, 1999) was thus the largest "Wrapped Trees" to be realized at that time**. This volume traces the conception to the realization via preparatory drawings, collages, and plans as well as photographs of the Wrapped Trees.

**Limited edition of 1,000 copies worldwide, each numbered and signed by Christo, Jeanne-Claude and Wolfgang Volz with an original cibachrome and a piece of the original fabric.**