Chevrolet isn’t the only company to have its centennial this year; so is Ford, or to be more precise, the Blue Oval is celebrating 100 years of Ford in Britain as the company itself was founded in 1903.
As part of the company’s Centenary Tour, which is a month-long event, Ford of Britain commissioned Cornish designer, Katherine Hawkins, to craft a unique piece of jewelry made out of select Ford Focus parts.
The twenty-six year-old designer who runs her ‘Crème Nouveau’ business from a studio in St Columb Major, came up with a vintage-style necklace that mixes rhinestones and crystals with reversed instrument dials, needles, nuts, bolts and springs, and all this on a template made from car seat material.
Katherine commented: “When the box of car parts arrived, I didn’t really know what to expect. It doesn’t help that I can’t actually drive so at first I didn’t know what the parts were for! But once I got them spread out to see how they look and sit and how I could work with them, the idea came very quickly and I was able to use really cool metals, plastics and rubbery bits!”
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