Luca Iaconi-Stewart (born around 1991) is an American designer who achieved widespread publicity in 2014 for building a 1/60-scale model of an Air India Boeing 777 using manila folders.[1]
Iaconi-Stewart began work on the model while a junior at San Francisco's Lick-Wilmerding High School in the late 2000s. He claimed it took 10,000 hours to complete and that he devoted an entire summer just to completing construction of the passenger seats.[2] CNET declared the model "the coolest paper airplane ever" [3] while WIRED named Iaconi-Stewart "the world's best paper plane maker".[4] According to Iaconi-Stewart, he dropped out of college at Vassar in order to devote more time to constructing the model. In an interview with The Independent, Iaconi-Stewart said his work had been inspired by an effort to "push the limits of what could be done" with manila folders.[5]
As of 2014, Iaconi-Stewart is employed doing odd jobs in the San Francisco area.[1]