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...love of his life, his muse and the woman who transformed his dreams into marketable realities. She hated him at first. ?I was dating Jet Skiers at the time,? Cynthia Hardy, a nonnative, says with a laugh. But she too was looking for something more meaningful in Bali and eventually fell under the spell of John's vision for a more perfect world?a world in which beauty and luxury could be a solution, not just a commodity. It is her ability to pluck the pearls from John's million-ideas-a-minute stream of consciousness and make...
Today, that empire centers on one of the most innovative and environmentally sustainable factories in Bali. The factory walls, made of recyclable mud brick, are topped with thorny bougainvillea, rather than razor wire. John Hardy calls them a ?sustainable solution to the international problem of security.? Workshop roofs are covered with creeping passion-fruit vines to insulate the interiors from the brutal equatorial sun. Their fruit makes for a handy snack. Lotus ponds punctuate factory floors. ?If the fish die,? says Hardy, ?we know something is wrong.? The compound is designed to be light...
...Midas brushed against a bamboo trellis covered in climbing flowers. ?In 200 years,? he says, ?you will see this on the block at Sotheby's.? He is not speaking of the design but of the exquisite craftsmanship. One of the great luxuries of working in Bali is the ability to draw from a tradition of jewelry making that goes back thousands of years?and the ability to lure Europe's greatest designers with the promise of working in paradise. Hardy's designers number in the eighties, something unheard of for most jewelry companies. That allows...
...That's what I love about how we make our jewelry,? says Cynthia Hardy. ?You have these wonderful craftspeople descended from artisans who worked for the kings of Bali hundreds of years ago sitting down with ceramic polymer from Liechtenstein. It's 21st century technology combined with the craftsmanship and talents of the 19th century...
...with the Hardys is living life as it should be lived: effortless, peaceful, sensuous. But it also takes into account actions and their repercussions. On the third anniversary of the terrible bombings in Bali that took 202 lives, and 11 days after another bombing that rattled the Balinese people's already shaky confidence, the Hardys discussed how they were helping their adopted home. ?At first I thought about raising money to build a hospital,? says Cynthia. ?But John said that we could do a better job looking after our own workers. So that's where we started...