Romancing the store


Besides these marquee names, others like Anna Hu from Taiwan, Edmond Chin from Singapore and Hong Kong's Austy Lee have also made their mark in the overseas market with their Chinese-heritage-and-mythology-inspired jewelry. Hu, for example, was the only jewelry artist from Asia to be invited to the European Fine Art Foundation fair in Maastricht, Netherlands, in 2022. Chin made waves with his incredibly detailed landscape brooch, depicting a pagoda-roofed structure with trees and a flowing stream, carved entirely out of jade and embellished with green tsavorite, sapphire and white diamonds. Lee, on his part, has reinvented jade. In his capable hands, what is sometimes perceived as an unexciting gemstone, favored by ladies of a certain age, takes the shape of intricately carved bangles and earrings, laden with Chinese symbolism.