Remember WALL-E, the little Pixar robot made from e-waste and tech junk? A new luxury jewelry collection, Oushaba, captures WALL-E’s landfill look — and beautiful soul — with designs made from e-waste mixed with precious gems and recycled gold.
The designs are made with 22-karat yellow gold, 18k white gold or sterling silver. All of the precious metal is 100 percent recycled, sourced from industrial waste.Gillian Carr, Oushaba’s managing director and cofounder, said it’s sad that so much e-waste ends up in landfill and “we wanted to think about it differently, to challenge people’s ideas about what is waste, and what is luxury.”
Likewise, Carr’s chunky brushed gold ring appears to be set with bits of turquoise. Instead, it’s dotted with tiny blue tubes cut from the inside of a mobile phone. Her cuff bracelet is made from a series of charging cables that look like black leather strips. The cluster of cables is fastened with circuit boards that have been cast in gold.
Carr, who studied art history at university and who later worked at Christie’s, added that she was always interested in creating wearable art.All of Oushaba’s jewelry is one-of-a-kind, made by hand in a family-run Sicilian workshop. The jewelers source the e-waste from a local electronics repair shop and work it into the jewelry using traditional, lost-wax casting techniques.
The Futurists, working in the early 20th century, embraced modern invention, technology and objects such as cars and planes. They worked propulsion, movement and machinery into their paintings and sculptures. In addition to making bespoke orders, customers can personalize certain pieces with initials. A diamond-edged initial mounted on a discarded charger cable certainly makes a strong statement about tech, wealth and waste.
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