Thidarut Kongwithayakij

That year marks the start of the family's work in jewelry, which the company still carries on today. Our brand describes itself as a luxury jewelry maker since 1988.

That work grew into Manee Mongkhol Gems Factory Co., Ltd., a Thai jewelry manufacturer for export. It specialises in invisible setting, a way of setting natural gemstones so that no metal shows between them. Its pieces are handmade by skilled artisans in silver and gold. It has more than 6,000 designs and also makes jewelry for other brands (OEM and ODM).

The same craft is the basis of AVALON Artisan Gallery, where Thai artisans now shape jewelry and objects from MyraGem and MyraShell, two materials made from discarded green mussel shell.