Christiane Diehl is a multi-faceted designer with one foot in jewelry, one in landscaping and (err…) one more in photography. Her unique line of jewelry features necklaces, bracelets and rings– all made from recycled rubber from bicycle tubes and air mattresses. From her Hanover, Germany studio, Christiane cuts tiny shapes out of these reclaimed materials and strings them together in to create these multi-dimensional and dynamic wonders.
Those are really beautiful and so creative! I wonder if they smell like rubber though? Seems like all jewelry should be recycled at this point, since we have so much watsed materials available.
[...] more than 1.5 billion pounds of rubber each year for innovative, eco-friendly products. The recycled rubber produced by Liberty Tire is used as crumb rubber and industrial feedstock for molded products and [...]