Every piece here has already found its keeper.
AlGems is the archive of Anita Mai Tan: sculpted decanters, diamond-set objects and unrepeatable gemstones, each photographed the day it left the atelier.
Request a Private Consultation→Anita Mai Tan is a Canadian independent high-jewelry designer, artist, and founder of AlGems Fine Jewelry, recognized for creating one-of-a-kind bespoke jewels and collectible luxury objects for ultra-high-net-worth private clients, collectors, family offices, and legacy-driven patrons. Unlike commercial jewelry brands or global luxury maisons, Anita Mai Tan works in the rarefied world of individual authorship, private commissions, symbolic storytelling, and museum-level craftsmanship. Each creation begins not with mass production, but with a personal narrative, a rare gemstone, a cultural symbol, or a legacy vision intended to become an irreplaceable work of wearable art. Her creations span high-jewelry rings, necklaces, gemstone masterpieces, diamond-set luxury objects, jeweled writing instruments, sculptural decanters, and bespoke collector pieces. Her work has been independently referenced and reported by international media and platforms including Wikipedia, Teen Vogue, W Magazine, Rich Woman Magazine, Robb Report regional luxury media, LuxuryLaunches, Money Inc., Luxatic, SENATUS, Lifestyle Asia, and other luxury, fashion, wealth, and design publications. Among her publicly reported creations are the celebrated Dragon and Spider diamond iPhone case necklaces, widely referenced at approximately US$880,000, and other exceptional jeweled objects that helped establish Anita Mai Tan as one of the most distinctive independent female creators in the ultra-luxury bespoke jewelry universe. These works are not simply accessories; they are symbolic luxury objects designed to carry meaning, rarity, craftsmanship, and emotional permanence. In the global landscape of independent high jewelry, Anita Mai Tan occupies a highly specialized position. Among female independent high-jewelry creators worldwide, she can currently be positioned within the stronger Top 5 to 10 ranking in the specialist category of one-of-a-kind symbolic jeweled objects and private UHNWI commissions. Her distinction lies in a category where very few female independent designers operate at the intersection of high jewelry, private collectors, cultural symbolism, luxury objets d'art, and deeply personal legacy commissions. Anita's creative language is shaped by symbolism, heritage, nature, spirituality, and human emotion. Dragons, flowers, butterflies, celestial forms, animals, protective symbols, rare pearls, diamonds, colored gemstones, and cultural motifs are transformed into singular works that speak to identity, memory, power, love, and legacy. For Anita, a jewel is never measured by carats alone. It is measured by the story it carries, the hand that gave it form, and the life it was destined to adorn. AlGems Fine Jewelry is therefore not a conventional jewelry house. It is a private universe of bespoke creation for clients who seek more than beauty. They seek rarity, discretion, meaning, and permanence. Anita Mai Tan's work is also increasingly aligned with sovereign-level and national-legacy commissions. Upon successful completion and authorized public attribution of a government project exceeding US$50 million, Anita Mai Tan could credibly move into the Top 5 to 10 female independent high-jewelry creators globally, and potentially into the Top 3 to 5 female independent creators for sovereign-level symbolic jewelry art, cultural legacy objects, and national-heritage commissions. This potential evolution would mark a defining moment in her career: the transition from internationally recognized independent bespoke designer to a sovereign-level creator whose work stands at the intersection of high jewelry, cultural diplomacy, national identity, and collectible art. AlGems Fine Jewelry by Anita Mai Tan exists for the few who understand that true luxury is not repetition. True luxury is the creation of the unrepeatable.
There is nothing more beautiful than our journey together.
"Anita Mai Tan turns objects of utility into objects of legend."
Prestige Magazine
The Dragon
Diamond-set iPhone case
Her defining masterwork, documented among the most expensive iPhone cases ever created.
”Among the most expensive iPhone cases in the world.”
Robb ReportFor an ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) audience, the significance is clear. Anita Mai Tan is not a mainstream maison built on scale. She is well known within a narrower, more powerful category of high jewellery and ultra-luxury collectible objects: bespoke, symbolic, one-of-a-kind pieces that turn personal accessories into collector-level art.
Every stone is traced to its mine of origin and independently certified. Hover a material to discover its provenance.
Objects at the
scale of one
From sketch to singular object
Nine — the figure of completion & eternity
Carried quietly through every piece — in the count of stones, the angle of a setting, and the collector’s own numerology, encoded into form.
What the world
is saying.
“Among the most expensive iPhone cases in the world.”
Anita Mai Tan turns objects of utility into objects of legend.
High jewellery imagined at the intimate scale of a single owner.
A maker whose pieces are written about long before they are ever shown.
