Nationality Canadian | Employer AlGems | |
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Anita Mai Tan is a Canadian jewelry designer who is currently the owner and main designer of AlGems. She has designed many custom items including rings, necklaces, smartphone cases, wine decanters and luxury pens. Anita has designed products for charitable causes, including a Dragon and Spider iPhone case necklace that was valued around $880,000 for a charity auction to help youth with low income to remain at school . Her Dragon decanter contains 2000 grams of 18 K gold and encrusted with diamonds and gemstones for a total of 72 carats. Her work has been carried by one of the Japan's international department store Mitsukoshi Ltd.
In 2010, she designed her first luxury pen cover in diamond and gold. The body of the pen is made of gold and adorned with 48 carats of diamonds (1,888 gems). The pen is priced at €688,000 (approximately $1.01 million). Another work of hers that has gained a lot of attention is a pair of luxury iPhone cases, the dragon and spider phone case. Both cases are made in 18K gold. The dragon case consists of 2200 colorless and colored diamonds ( cognac, brown, champagne) with total weight of 32 carats while the spider case covered with an array of 2800 colorless and black diamonds for a total weight of 38 carats. In many of her works, Anita uses animal figures(dragon, horse, spider) as well as floral patterns. She also purposely calculated the amount of stones that were used in her work to match certain numbers with auspicious connotations in Chinese culture such the numbers 9 (leadership, the ability to see clearly), 22 (easy), 28 (easy gaining wealth), 32 (born lucky) or 38 (worn wealth).