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A Dutch artist has created the next edgiest type of jewellery – the edge being that it is made from air.
Studio Roosegaarde, the lab of Daan Roosegaarde and his team of designers and engineers, has found a way to compress carbon particles sucked out of the air into miniscule cubes and then set them in super sleek jewellery pieces.
Each cube made, he says, cleans 1,000 cubic metres of completely purified, clean air.
The “smog free” designs are available as rings…
Cufflinks…
Or you can just buy the air cubes themselves and transform them into your own accessories…
The jewellery is part of Roosegaarde’s Smog Free project, which has seen him work on a number of creations to promote clean air in public spaces.
His latest venture was to introduce his portable air-cleaning tower, already tested out in Rotterdam, to Beijing – one of the world’s most polluted cities. And it wouldn’t look out of place put up outside the Tate Modern.
In an interview with the BBC World Service, he explained that it works by “sucking up” polluted air, and purifying the air particles on a “nano level” before “spitting out” clean air.
He said: “The tower makes a park or playground about 75% more clean than the rest of the city. It purifies around 30,000 cubic metres per hour, using no more electricity than a normal water boiler.
“It’s the beginning of the future. The big idea is clean air for everyone.”
And it’s those leftover smog particles, which are essentially carbon, that he has used to created the snazzy rings – with funding from a Kickstarter campaign which generated 100,000 euro.
His overall inspiration for finding innovative ways to combat pollution, he said, was the idea: “What is more beautiful than clean air?”
“We need to be creative in our solutions. It’s the beginning of something beautiful, I think.”
Daan, we couldn’t agree more.
