Marquetry art creates a Guiness World Record

Within the sphere of woodworking, Guiness World Records have been made for the tallest wood sculpture (2023), the longest wood carving (2019), and as of 2024, for the largest example of marquetry art.

Winning a Guiness World Record in 2024 for the Wavy Marquetry Divider represents the culmination of a childhood ambition for co-creator Konstantinos Chadoulos. ‘Years later this thought resurfaced, not as a dream, but as an ambitious project that merges technical perfection with artistic expression.’

Maria and Konstantinos Chadoulos, co-founders of Mockinbird Studio in Greece, drew inspiration from the 70s to design a 12.5 square metre surface ‘where the traditional technique of marquetry is reimagined as a form of modern applied art’.

While the scale was record-breaking, the real challenge was ‘to take a classic technique and push it into a new realm, where tradition meets contemporary art’, said Konstantinos.

Mockinbird Studio’s Wavy Marquetry Divider is entered in Maker of the Year 2025, presented by Carbatec.

The video belows shows some of the making process.

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