Eiffel Tower model crowned world’s tallest matchstick building after record U-turn
Richard Plaud's model of the Eiffel Tower built using 706,900 matchsticks and which stands at 7.19m in Saujon, France. Richard Plaud/Handout via REUTERS
Guinness World Records told Frenchman Richard Plaud that his 7.2-metre (23.6 ft) matchstick Eiffel Tower was a record height, a day after initially rejecting it for using the wrong matches, to Plaud's dismay.
Plaud said he had been on an "emotional rollercoaster" this week, after spending 4,200 hours over eight years on building his model from more than 706,000 matches and 23 kilos of glue.
