Watch the creation of a stunning matchstick town, complete with beautiful houses and a clock tower. This match art project builds intricate structures, only to be set on fire for a breathtaking ...

Richard Plaud's matchstick dreams have been rekindled. Earlier this week, the Frenchman was crestfallen when he was told his 23-foot model of the Eiffel Tower — made from 700,000 matchsticks ...

A French man spent eight years building his dream of being a world record holder stick by stick, only to have judges disqualify him for using the wrong materials for the tallest matchstick ...

Guinness World Records on Thursday told Frenchman Richard Plaud that his 7.2 meter (23.6 feet) matchstick Eiffel Tower was a record height, a day after rejecting it for using the wrong matches ...

Weeks after disqualifying a 24-foot tower made of matchsticks, Guinness World Records apologized and said it had been too “heavy handed.” By Jenny Gross Richard Plaud toiled over eight years ...

LONDON — You could say Richard Plaud's dreams of making the world's tallest matchstick sculpture may have gone up in smoke. The Frenchman spent the last eight years painstakingly piecing ...