During the 1960s Christo embarked on a series of works entitled The Store Front Project, in which he created architectural-scale sculptures in the form of commercial store façades. The glass windows were partially covered from the inside with fabric, paint or wrapping paper, thereby obstructing one’s view from the outside, alluding to the politics of public and private spaces. The potential of the vacant commercial units with this disturbance of their original function is recognised by Christo. The symbolic purpose of windows and doors is subverted by the artist, and the fact that they are architectural exteriors displayed indoors, compounds their multiple metaphors. Before building a life-size Store Front, Christo always made preparatory sketches, collages, drawings and scale models. The collaged brown wrapping paper on this lithograph mimics the use of the material in the sculptural works. Christo and JeanneClaude continued to propose and develop ambitious large-scale projects located in the public domain. The large costs of realising their elaborate projects were raised through the sale of their drawings, prints and collages in which various elements of their projects were visualised, and previous projects were revisited in two-dimensional formats.