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mostexpensivehouseheaderApart from a top of the range car, perhaps the greatest status symbol anyone can have is a house that is literally worth a fortune. But you can forget about any house owned by superstars or ex-presidents and as for houses owned by such as Bill Gates well, to be frank, they just don’t cut the mustard when compared to this particular abode.

With a cost per meter of a startling $80 billion ($150 billion USD) this is officially the most expensive house in the world based on size – but you can forget about ever living in it.

Crated by artist Willard Wigan, the house in question, based on a Huf Haus timber and glass design, took the artist seven weeks to create and measures a mere 0.5mm across – about the size of a full stop. Boasting spectacular views from the top of a pin head, the house is so small that its creator had to use a hair from the leg of a dead spider as a paintbrush.

The Pinhead House

Willard Wigan is no stranger to working in such minute detail, however, as his work is invariably mounted either on pin heads of in the eyes of sewing needles.

A Cat on a Hair
Another of Willard Wigan’s art works
- a cat on a single hair

You can visit Willard’s website via this link for more information and pictures concerning his intricate work (just don’t sneeze).

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Related Comments

  1. claudia |

    wow - maybe that is how we look to God

  2. Andrew Tingle |

    Just imagine if you locked yourself out - the front door key must me tiny!

  3. randolph |

    you can see a movie of the amazing willard the microsculptor in 1993.
    taken from the pogus caesar film [an eye on x], it shows the early days of willard carving on toothpick.
    i also believe that caesar has many hours of rare footage, willard carving, flying light balsal wood plane, his early days in birmingham ….see if you can get access as this.

    film clip: oom gallery film page

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