It’s not every day you see fine jewelry that looks this… blurry. Stolen Jewels are the creation of Mike and Maaike, who did a Google for low-resolution images of various famous, priceless pieces of jewelry — such as a ruby and diamond necklace made by Van Cleef and Arpels for Imelda Marcos — and then made them even lower-res before transferring them to leather. The result is what you see above: stunning, and arguably much, much preferable to their original, heavy counterparts. There’s one more photo after the break — hit the read link for the whole, beautiful line.
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