Island gave us much it's a fair return of things added

Tropics. But if it was in Bali, these buildings have nothing to do with the hotel of luxury. They are home to the showroom and John Hardy jewelry workshops. Created by a Canadian hippy arrived in the Indonesian island at the end of the 1970s, the trade mark, well known in the United States and the Japan, include scarce luxury operators engaged in a process of sustainable development. The "Financial Times" and the Mitsui Sumitomo insurance company come to award him the Asian Leader in Environmental Sustainability Award. Damien Dernoncourt, 37 years old French CEO, recently visiting Paris, explains that it is fixed as objective complete neutralization, or even reverse, the carbon footprint of the company.

Engaged since 2006, the process provides for full compensation for advertising pages, transport costs and freight (a big position since clients are delivered within 72 hours wherever they are in the world) and this year, the power consumption of the workshops of Bali and Bangkok. 80 of the money they use comes from recycling and gold is refined and polished without addition of cyanide. Living in symbiosis with the Balinese people, society is involved in the rescue of ecosystems threatened by the archipelago. Example to Nusa Penida, a tiny island damaged by agricultural over-exploitation and deforestation. John Hardy and a local Foundation succeeded to maintain its inhabitants on the spot and to perpetuate their traditional activity of dye indigo with a bamboo plantation programme. "Instead of buying emission rights to London and Chicago, we have preferred investing in reforestation." said Damien Dernoncourt. Brand clients are involved in the effort as a percentage of the sales of the Bamboo Collection contributes to the funding of this program. Another initiative, the creation, one of Bali orphanages, of a school and a centre of learning for girls and women. About 800 employees of the island, they are fed by three farms and the rice fields of the business. "Our"team building"exercise is to plant rice", pleasant Damien Dernoncourt, defending to the com. "we are not trying to give good conscience and our commitment is not a marketing gimmick." "Island gave us much, it's a fair return of things," added.

An ethnic look

Living between the Indonesia and Hong Kong, the young manager was the witness of the great Chinese industrial development. Leaving of IUT in 1995, he left to settle in Shengzhen where he made his first weapons in tooling hand before boarding his own plant. Graduate of Insead, he joined John Hardy four years ago to redress accounts and became shareholder when the founder sells the company.

Heavy bracelets cufflinks in silver and gold pounded strings at head of dragon Naga, John Hardy creations are inspired by Balinese ancestral techniques of metal working. They are also much in the eye and the paw of the artistic director, Guy Bedarida, another Frenchman, fallen under the spell of Bali after fifteen years place Vendôme in the workshops of fine jewelry Van Cleef & Arpels. Sold the Japan addition to Atlantic in Neiman Marcus and Isetan, John Hardy, recognizable by their ethnic look jewellery were selected by the cheap for its catalogue of Christmas with a spectacular ring of marrying the shell gold and precious stones.