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ANGELA LINDVALL 2014 PRESS KIT

JOHN HARDY’S ECO PARADISE

On the remote island of Bali, John Hardy creative director Guy Bedarida has created an eco-paradise. Anne Slowey made the trek to find that you really can change the world one bracelet at a time...

Myths abound about the paradisial beauty of Bali, Indonesia. But truth be told, on the beaten tracks of Kuta, Legian, or Seminyak, it's a bit of a treasure hunt trying to find a spot that's not overrun with doughy tourists in skimpy bathing suits, whooping it up to beach-house club beats. Getting to the island's heart, Mount Batur, or to Ubud, the soul of its artistic community, often requires navigating bumper-to-bumper traffic, with locals piled three to a scooter. As Noël Coward might've said after visiting the place in the 1930s, "There's far too much Bali in Bali" to get any rest.

Yet near the lush, inland jungles of Ubud lies an oasis of creative calm and pristine beauty that makes it easy to understand why the Canadian artist John Hardy moved here in 1975 to study Balinese jewelrymaking, his teacher an artisan whose ancestors had been goldsmiths to the island's former royal court. By 1989, Hardy believed he'd mastered enough of the traditional forms to start his own brand—large, silver hammered, woven, and filigree-embellished jewelry of a kind that one rarely saw outside of antiques shops and history books. Hardy not only commercialized the look—at a price—but popularized it at a time when tribal and ethnic-inspired jewelry was becoming all the rage.

Original Article on Elle: http://www.elle.com/fashion/spotlight/john-hardy-in-bali

GREEN GODDESSES: ANGELA LINDVALL OUR FAVORITE EARTH DAY LADIES The beauty teamed up with Guy Bedarida of John Hardy for an eco-jewelry collection.

Angela is affliated with the National Resources Defense Council.

Lindvall lives green and is the founder of the Collage Foundation, a non-profit organization that encourages a trend for environmental, social and political concern.

Original Article on Harper’s Bazaar: http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/health-wellness-articles/earth-day-2012-green-celebrities-0UhPH3#slide-3