The provocation of Anna Barbara: with the design she creates necklaces and earrings reusing the poor materials ♦ ︎
Jewels produced / cut from fresh bricks. A collection of lost lenses. Jewels made with industrial waste. Let’s say the truth: only an avant-garde project can replace sapphires and gold, diamonds and lapis lazuli in the imagination of a jewelry designer. This minimalist, somewhat provocative way is the one followed by Anna Barbara, founder of the SenseLab architecture studio in Milan. Graduated in architecture, designer, Anna Barbara aims to be a reference to the circular economy, that is to say the principle that nothing is thrown away.
Bricks, quarry stone or beached debris: with an echo to Jonathan Safran Foer, “everything is illuminated with new life”.
These humble materials are transformed into rings, necklaces, pendants and earrings. The Mare Nostrum collection, subdivided into Rosita, Titanic and Migrante, alludes to the difficulties, but also to the cultural context of migrations. Also for this reason the poor jewels (of materials) and rich jewels (of ideas) become an alternative reference point and a message. Giulia Netrese