ileana de la guardia is still in exile in paris. 1995, artists christo and jeanne—claude wrapped the former german parliament building, the reichstag, in fabric. more than 5 million people came to see it, and it became a symbol for berlin's renewal after the fall the wall and the collapse of communism. christo tells witness history how they did it. news archive: it's an eccentric dream but one that a husband and wife team have cherished for nearly a quarter of a century, and this weekend, the bulgarian—born artist and his wife jeanne—claude began wrapping the german parliament building in silver fabric. it is very difficult to explain if you don't see it. no drawings, no sketch, no scale model can match the complexity of the project. the fabric is actually not completely touching the stone, the surface of the structure. the project started in 1972. the cold war is still in full speed the berlin wall was built, permission to wrap the reichstag was refused three times. if the wall will not fall down, probably we'll never do the reichs

ileana de la guardia is still in exile in paris.sto and john claude wrapped the former german parliament building, the reichstag, in fabric. more than a million people came to see it and became a symbol of early and's renewal after the fall of communism. one that husband and wife team has cherished. christo and his wife began wrapping the german parliament building in fabric. no drawing can match the complexity of the project. the project started in 1972. the cold war is still in full speed and the berlin wall was built. it was refused three times, to wrap the reichstag. if the early wall didn't fall, we would never do it. for more than two decades, the artist christo and his wife wanted to wrap the building that symbolised the cold war. i was born in bulgaria in 1935. i escaped to the west, speaking only russian and bulgaria. coming from a communist country, i want to do something involving it. ella make it has been bombed and set on fire, seen warand has been bombed and set on fire, seen war and revolution but never before had the