About Us
Thai Design is a jewellery design and production partner for designers, retailers and wholesalers across the globe.
We’re here to help you transform your ideas into tangible,
thoughtfully designed and highly crafted pieces of jewellery and giftware.
Our Story
We’re here to support you in the development, manufacture and supply of your collections - all whilst offering exceptional flexibility and customer service. We stand in excellent stead to do so, because we’re a family-run business with over 50 years of experience in sourcing, crafting and distributing beautiful jewellery and silverware across the globe.
Our Mission
The industry has changed a lot in five decades. Today, Thai Design combines the stability of family ownership and time-honoured heritage of Thai craftsmanship with a dynamic spirit and an innovative outlook. In our mission to share the genius and creativity of jewellery with the world, we remain committed to learning and evolving with our clients.
Our Values
As the first Fairmined Authorized Supplier in all of Asia, we’re committed to practices and processes that foster social impact and minimise our environmental footprint. It’s really important to us that your jewellery tells a wonderful story.
United Kingdom
Thai Design was founded in London in 1975 and moved to nearby Berkhamsted in 2022. Our office is the heart of a historic market town with quaint cafes, boutique shops, and a wide-range of excellent restaurants, all conveniently located within 30-minutes of London by road or rail.
Our proximity to Heathrow airport, a world-class hub for international travel, is a strategic advantage for importing and exporting
Thailand
Located in a part of Chiang Mai that is renowned for high-quality handicrafts, we are able to draw on the rich talent of the local community. Just down the road are artisans of ceramics, wood carving, silk weaving, paper, and more.
Surrounded by lush mountains, and with far less concrete and traffic than Bangkok, time in Chiang Mai is more peaceful. The local artistic spirit extends to its cuisine and locally-grown coffee. A hotspot for digital nomads, Chiang Mai blends modern life and technology around the preserved walls and canals of its historic heart.
Sustainability
PUSHING FOR PROGRESS
METAL
Since March 2019, Thai Design has been registered as a Fairmined licensee, exclusively representing the first Fairmined Authorized Supplier in all of Asia. We also support additional artisanal and low-carbon mining sources. While our recycled silver is RJC-certified, we are actively working to identify alternative sources from circuit boards, x-ray film, and other waste streams.
PACKAGING
Thai Design uses bioplastic zip lock bags that are biodegradable. We are also proud to collaborate with another Thai & female-owned business using dried water hyacinth stalks as an environmentally beneficial alternative to Styrofoam and bubble-wrap.
COMMUNITY
Dangerously poor air quality due to agricultural burning is an increasingly large problem in Southeast Asia, and can be particularly bad in Chiang Mai. Thai Design invests a portion of sales in a local charity, Biochar Life, to provide farmers with an alternative that not only mitigates the smoke issue, but also creates an amazing soil additive that enhances soil fertility and water retention.
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WAGES & CONDITIONS
Meeting minimum legal requirements is not enough, we strive to enhance the comfort, safety, and development of our people. Bonuses for performance, salary increases for skill development, support for learning new roles, and pension funding are available to all staff. We are a family business, and we have a lot of families working with us, which drives our sense of responsibility and duty of care.
SHIPPING
We are proud to be early adopters of DHL’s GoGreen Plus program, which covers all parcels sent from Thailand to the UK and many of our onward shipments to customers. The program not allows us to “inset” the carbon emissions of shipments, but also to promote increased use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
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Our Team
As the daughter of co-founders Lilia and Bill, Kim, has been immersed in the jewellery industry her entire life. She leads all the customer-facing aspects of the business: Marketing, sales, design development, and customer service. Cultivating relationships is her favourite part of the job, and she always does her best to be available to every customer. Even when she is behind-the-scenes, she is diligently focused on ensuring that each customer is served well and cared for. A Londoner by birth and at heart, she is loving life in Thailand, where is she best able to bridge the unique needs of customers with the expansive capabilities of our dedicated crafting facility. Kim is deeply committed to all the staff in the UK and Thailand, and strives for progress throughout the business to ensure that it can carry on serving customers for many, many years to come.
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