The Eiffel Tower made of matchsticks sets a world record.

Richard Plaud said he experienced an "emotional rollercoaster" this week, after spending 4,200 hours over eight years building a model of the Eiffel Tower from more than 706,000 matchsticks and 23 kg of glue.

Richard Plaud's Eiffel Tower made of matchsticks.

He told Reuters : "For eight years, I always thought I was building the world's tallest matchstick tower."

However, Guinness World Records initially stated that he did not use "commercially available" matches.

Plaud began by using commercial matches, cutting off the ends of each matchstick. Tired of this tedious process, he asked the manufacturer if he could buy headless wooden sticks, which led Guinness World Records to reject his record.

Richard Plaud and his Guinness World Record certificate.

Richard Plaud, a local council member, wrote in French on his Facebook page: "The Guinness World Records 'judges' made their verdict without actually seeing how I did it. Disillusioned and disappointed. Explain to me that 706,900 individual sticks aren't matches? And that they're cut so much that they're unrecognizable!"

The current record holder is Toufic Daher from Lebanon, who built a 6.4-meter-tall Eiffel Tower out of matchsticks in 2009 using 6 million matchsticks.

Richard Plaud spent 4,200 hours over eight years building a model of the Eiffel Tower from more than 706,000 matchsticks and 23 kg of glue.

According to the French newspaper Le Parisien , since December 2015, Plaud has been working extensively to build the tower, aiming to surpass the 2009 record. Plaud told Le Parisien : "Setting a world record is a childhood dream. I've always had it in mind."

Plaud completed the tower on December 27, 2023, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the death of French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel – the creator of the world-famous Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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