This is a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci by the fantastic painter Saimir Strati, based on the portrait done by Leonardo Da Vinci, done in hundreds and hundreds and thousands of nails. In fact, there’s so many nails in this picture, it holds the world, the WORLD record for Largest Nail Mosaic according to the Guinness book of World Records. Imagine the amount of pounding that had to be done. Imagine the amount of WEIGHT this thing has in it. Imagine how much money you could get at the recycling plant for all that lovely metal!

But nay, this is worth more than money, yes? Yes!

Nails: 400 kg, industrial weight
Size: 2 meter by 4 meter wooden surface

World Record for Largest Nail Mosaic

I’m not quite sure where it’s sitting right now, but gosh I’d sure like to see it up close. It’s fun enough to pound nails into wood to connect the two, it must be just a blast to create magnificent pictures such as this with them.

This is another example of a project that was completed several years ago (4 years before this post was posted, in this case,) but the photos were only released to the world very recently. These sorts of situations often end up being my very favorite projects because they were so fantabulous that their impact had to be delayed lest the internet collapse on itself! That’s just how the world is today.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies metal category.