Saimir Starti seeks new Guinness record for largest coffee bean mosaic

TIRANA, Nov. 15 – Already a holder of four Guinness World records for the largest mosaics, Albania’s Saimir Strati is seeking to set another record for biggest mosaic using coffee beans. The new mosaic, which Strati is already working on, will be created on a 25 m2 area featuring five continents.
“This time I wanted to feature the world as a family. The mosaic has five characters representing one character each,” the artist told reporters this week.
The one-month new venture, which will take Strati 12 to 13 hours a day, will be ready on December 10, when a World Guinness team from London is scheduled to arrive and assess the artwork.
The Albanian artist is already on the Guinness World Records for the largest metal nail, cork, paint brush, and screw mosaics.
Strati’s Guinness journey started in Sept. 2006 when he created the largest metal nail mosaic. The 8m2 (86.11 sq. feet) mosaic featured a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. Two years later, he entered the Guinness World Record for the largest cork mosaic is 91.87 mҠ(988 ftҩ with the theme ‘Mediterranea.’
In Sept. 2009 he created the largest paint brush mosaic measuring 26 mҠdepicting pop star Michael Jackson.
His latest World Record was set in Nov. 2010 when he made the largest screw artwork which contained 235,500 metal screws in an artwork depicting the poet Homer on a banknote.
Strati’s largest toothpick mosaic set in 2007 was broken one year later by students of Tsugeno High School Japan, according to the official Guinness World Records website.
Born in Vlora, Saimir Strati, 45, is an Albanian artist who is regarded as one of the world’s most well-known modern mosaic artists.
Saimir Strati is primarily an artist who works in mosaics. He has used materials including nails, toothpicks, corks, sea glass, eggshells, compact discs, coffee beans, porcelain and mirror glass among other materials. He is also a painter. The diversity of the artist’s subjects, material and technique distinguish Saimir Strati as being traditional and contemporary with his approach on reviving the old technique and professionalism in antiquity and the mingling of daily/ industrial material.