Bryan Berg is the only known person who lands up making a living by building playing sculptures. He is a Harvard educated architect, but Berg claims he’s learned all his techniques the old fashion way through trial and error
"I never knew a career in card stacking was something that could exist,” Berg says. “Even after all these years, I'm still learning how to be better at what I do." Check out his life's work below.
Disney’s Cinderella Castle
Berg created Disney’s Cinderella Castle 15 foot exact replica of the castle located at Disney world in the United States. Over a period of around 30 days he used around 3,000 decks to build this beautiful master piece. This actually set the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest House of Freestanding Cards
New York City Skyline
Berg joined forces with ‘Decked Out in Times Square’ as a fundraiser for tsunami relief. He spent 10 days at the ABC studios in New York’s Times Square to build this master pierce. The piece is made up of 178,000 cards.
The Las Vegas Sign
In 2006, Berg recreated the famous Las Vegas sign located at the beginning of the strip, and this piece was displayed at the 2006 WSOP. He used cards, dice, poker chips and wood to complete the project.
Rhode Island State House
Berg created this piece in 3 days using 22,000 cards. This was created in 2007.
The Bravery Music Video
In 2007, Berg appeared in a music video ‘Card World’ which he landed up building
Dallas Art Museum
Using 1,000 decks of cards, Berg broke his own Guinness World Record for the World Tallest House of Freestanding Playing Cards buy building this tower tyhan stands at over 25 feet tall!
Beijing Olympic Village
In 2008, Berg—who uses a strategic four-card cell structure he calls "grids" to arrange his cards—built a replica of the Beijing Olympic Village in 20 days using 140,000 playing cards
Keycard Hotel
In 2009, the Holiday Inn completed its twelve-hundredth hotel as part of a $1 billion relaunch. To celebrate, they commissioned Berg to construct a life-size hotel room, lobby and furniture, for which he used 200,000 cards.
Lexus City
In 2009, Lexus commissioned Berg to build an "any-city skyline" on the roof and surrounding a running Lexus ES to demonstrate the smoothness of the new model's engine. Berg worked on the project for three weeks and used 64,800 cards
Venetian Maco
In 2010, this 33' x 10', 218,792-card replica of the Macao, China, luxury resort—which Berg built in 44 days—beat out his own Cinderella Castle as the World's Largest House of Freestanding Playing Cards.