MANA Recycled Jewelry
Brazilian designer, Mana Bernades works with teenagers and students in Brazil teaching jewelry making and creative re-use. She sees luxury in seemingly unusable materials using mini-flasks, PET bottles, phone cards, toothpicks, hair clips, plastic netting, pearls & silver to create unique, modern jewelry crafted by hand. By using recycled materials, the Mana collection demonstrates that re-use can be beautiful and this is done through collaborative education engaging young people to create beauty through eco-friendly design.
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Sansia
These are absolutely stunning. Essentially wearing trash around you neck can be beautiful
Nov 10th, 2008
Kate
This jewelry is really beautiful. I love the glass necklace with matching earrings and bracelet. The pearls with toothpicks are beautiful as well; I do not think I have seen such beautiful jewelry made from recycled materials.
Thank you for the great post!
Nov 10th, 2008
Randy Burks
I love Mana’s jewelry! It is amazing to see what can be done with a litte ingenuity, a little creativity and a whole lot of talent. I can’t wait to see what she will come up with next. Nicely done!! Recycle Renew Reuse Re-adorn Rebeautify Reinvent
Nov 10th, 2008
Emerald
Very inspiring! Great pieces.
Nov 10th, 2008
august
absolutely beautiful…does anyone know what the first piece of jewelry is made out of?
Dec 1st, 2008
Matt
@AUGUST
I believe that they are little circles cut out of plastic bottles.
Dec 1st, 2008
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