The record-breaking amber sculpture is exactly 1.532 m long, 0.154 m wide, and 0.367 m high. Approximately 40 kg of selected amber (from over 100 kg!) was used to create it, choosing the perfect yellow and cherry colour shades. Carving the amber replica of what is probably the most famous ship took about 1 month of continuous work \u2013 an average of 12-14 hours a day, 7 days a week (the original took 26 months to create \u2013 and each is unique in its own way).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although this will undoubtedly be the most famous (after the original) Titanic, it is not the first amber replica of this ship to be created in Tomasz O\u0142dziejewski's workshop. He made the first one shortly after the Polish premiere of the film \u201eTitanic\u201d, when he noticed his wife's tearful eyes at the end of the film (as he admitted himself, his own eyes also unexpectedly welled up), and he thought that this ship and the associated film story evoked huge amounts of emotion. \u201eThese earlier replicas were smaller, not entirely made of amber, and not as proportionally perfect as this last one. After I made these first replicas, I knew literally everything about this ship \u2013 where the benches were and where the railings were that Kate and Leo held onto,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his career spanning over thirty years, he has built more ships \u2013 including, among others, the Black Pearl inspired by the film \u201ePirates of the Caribbean.\u201d And, as he proudly announces, these will certainly not be his last nautical works. A visit to the mine in Santiago, Dominican Republic (immortalised in one of the episodes of the second series of the show \u201eBaltic Gold\u201d<\/a>) inspired him with the thought of carving a replica of the three ships from Christopher Columbus's first voyage: the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Ni\u00f1a. However, they will not be made in Dominican amber<\/a>, only Baltic<\/a> (and it's supposed to have a Polish accent) and they will be donated either to the Krzysztof Kolumb Museum in Santo Domingo, or to one of the local amber museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His amber Titanic boasts two certificates \u2013 one confirming its entry in the Guinness Book of Records, whilst the other, issued by the Laboratory of the International Amber Association, certifies that the work was crafted from 100% amber. But for Tomasz O\u0142dziejewski, that\u2019s not enough. \u201eAnyone can have one record; I\u2019d like to have more,\u201d he says. And he\u2019s already making plans to break his own record \u2013 three times over. \u201eI\u2019d like to carve another amber lighthouse, ideally modelled on the one in Krynica Morska or Ko\u0142obrzeg, at least 1.7 metres tall, as well as the Eiffel Tower. I\u2019m also thinking of carving a model of the Vistula Spit canal, ideally from amber mined there,\u201d he explains. All these efforts have a purpose: \u201eI\u2019d like to be remembered.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The record-breaking sculpture of the Titanic made of amber \u2013 and many other works by Tomasz O\u0142dziejewski \u2013 can be seen at an exhibition in the Gmina Culture Centre in Stegna from July 1st to August 28th, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new category has been specially created for the amber Titanic in the Guinness Book of Records: the world's largest amber sculpture. And it succeeded \u2013 after months of waiting, Tomasz O\u0142dziejewski's dreams of a world record have come true.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Bursztynowy Titanic w Ksi\u0119dze Rekord\u00f3w Guinnessa - Amber Portal","description":"A new category was created in the Guinness Book of Records specifically for the amber Titanic: the world's largest amber sculpture. And it succeeded \u2013 after"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"sekcja":[],"class_list":["post-18484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informacje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18484"},{"taxonomy":"sekcja","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sekcja?post=18484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}