Wear This Fence From The Prison That Held Nelson Mandela

Charmaine Taylor's jewelry collection is styled out of a wire fence from Robben Island Prison, which for 18 years housed Nelson Mandela.

The 10-foot-high wire fence that once surrounded the infamous prison on Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town, has a second life as jewelry. The prison is where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before Apartheid collapsed. Though the prison gates were opened in 1994, it wasn't until 2009 that the eyesore of a fence itself was torn down. It was destined for the scrap metal heap--until a visiting artist, Chris Swift, intervened, and took pieces of the fence to display in art installations.

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