{"id":8997,"date":"2023-12-24T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2023-12-24T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T11:31:47","slug":"when-science-meets-art-recycled-metal-and-lab-grown-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/24\/when-science-meets-art-recycled-metal-and-lab-grown-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"When science meets art: Recycled metal and lab-grown gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>London: For some a natural diamond, created over billions of years, is the ultimate luxury, but an award-winning British designer sees greater worth in jewellery crafted using laboratory-grown gems and metal from recycled cans.<\/p>\n<p>Anabela Chan said she chose her materials after witnessing what she said were poor working conditions in diamond mines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are some of the most precious and valuable commodities in the world, that just didn&#8217;t make any sense to me,&#8221; she said, in her Knightsbridge boutique in central London.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, her designs rely on lab-grown diamonds, recycled aluminium from cans and pearls grown using regenerative farming techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Chan&#8217;s company does not give sales figures but said it had seen strong demand since the COVID-19 pandemic. She won the &#8220;Game Changer&#8221; category at the British Luxury Awards in November.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, her designs rely on lab-grown diamonds, recycled aluminium from cans and pearls grown using regenerative farming techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Chan&#8217;s company does not give sales figures but said it had seen strong demand since the COVID-19 pandemic. She won the &#8220;Game Changer&#8221; category at the British Luxury Awards in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events London: For some a natural diamond, created over billions of years, is the ultimate luxury, but an award-winning British designer sees greater worth in jewellery crafted using laboratory-grown gems and metal from recycled cans. Anabela Chan said she chose her materials after witnessing what she said were poor working conditions in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}