A Frenchman who spent eight years building a matchstick model of the Eiffel Tower more than 23 feet tall celebrated after Guinness World Records officially recognized his work.

Eiffel Tower in Paris, France Man who constructed Eiffel Tower model with over 700,000 matchsticks gets world record (Nikada/Getty Images) ByJessica Goodman, Cox Media Group National Content Desk ...

Earlier this week, the Frenchman was crestfallen when he was told his 23-foot model of the Eiffel Tower — made from 700,000 matchsticks over eight years — could not officially be called a ...

An 8ft Meccano model of the Eiffel Tower will be on display in the entrance, and there will be models of two Beamish trams, Sunderland 16 and Gateshead 10.

The record is 6 million matches by Toufic Daher, NBC News reported. His Eiffel Tower was about 21.4 feet high. The record was previously set in 2009.

The Eiffel Tower, a giant, 330-metre-tall, iron monument to France's pre-War industrial might, could tower over Georges-Eugène Haussmann's uniformly beautiful Parisian architecture like a brutal ...

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PARIS (Reuters) - Karl Lagerfeld presented Chanel's haute couture collection under a scaled-down version of the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday. Haute couture fashion week is open to an exclusive club of ...