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Cafe Terrace

96 × 126 studs (77 × 101 cm) · 12 096 studs of color · parts ≈ €696

Original artwork Cafe Terrace as a brick mosaic
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About this build

Cafe Terrace rebuilt in bricks measures 96 × 126 studs — 77 × 101 cm once it is on the wall — and takes 8 948 plates. Each stud is one pixel of the original, and nothing is painted or printed: the colour you see is the colour of the plate underneath it.

The engine matched the artwork to 35 of the LEGO® colours we can actually buy. Pearl Titanium does the most work at 12% of the surface — 1 058 plates on its own, followed by Dark Bluish Gray (12%), Black (10%). That distribution is the fingerprint of this particular image: a portrait leans on skin tones, a night sky spends almost everything on two or three darks.

Buying the plates for this one costs roughly €696 at current second-hand prices, spread across 35 colours. That is the part most people do not expect, and it is why the instructions and the sourcing list are what we sell: the bricks you buy where they are cheapest, or take from what you already own.

Source image: Vincent van Gogh — PD-old. This piece is here to show what the generator does with a hard image. Upload your own photo and you get the same treatment — the same palette, the same bag-by-bag instructions, the same list of what to buy.

Plates
8 948
Colours
35
Finished size
77 × 101 cm
Main colours
Pearl Titanium (12%), Dark Bluish Gray (12%), Black (10%)

Image: Vincent van Gogh — PD-old