Classic style with a bohemian twist, but London-based jewelry Pippa Small’s aesthetics is strongly tied up with an eco- friendly manufacturing. So, after ethical Bolivian gold and recycled brass originate from handles and faucets, here the new pieces of The Turquoise Mountain collection, made Afghan young women and men. Talented craftsmen, who due to the Turquoise Mountain organization set up by the President of Afghanistan and supported by the Prince of Wales, can revive traditional Afghan craft of jewelry-making, woodworking, calligraphy and ceramics.
If the main idea is to lead to entrepreneurial careers, Small’s collaboration came out with a charity collection inspired by the gold jewelry hidden by the museum director in Kabul during the Taliban era. Extraordinary pieces that have driven the designers anthropologist to contact the local expertise to make a line to sell a few pieces in the museums of the proceeds went to charity, then a second a bit wider for Barneys, and finally a collection available on her website. Here the new pieces inspired by ancient jewelry Afghan and Turkmen in silver gold plated with lapis lazuli and tiger eye from local mines.
