Profile

The Designer

Yen Duong is the founder and designer of Yen Jewellery. She remains uncompromising in her passion for distinctive jewellery since establishing the company in 1996 and continues to uphold her design ideals. By experimenting and reinventing her work, she maintains a freshness and energy while retaining the essence that gives distinction to the Yen Jewellery brand.

Yen has worked from her Bloomsbury studio for 15 years, exploring jewellery beyond traditional conceptions making her work exciting and rich in depth. She sells directly to her loyal customers from her London studio through a range of prestigious exhibitions and galleries such as Sotheby’s, The Goldsmiths’ Company, The Fine Art Society and The Crafts Council. The Yen Jewellery collection has sold through retails stores including Liberty of London, Selfridges and Harvey Nichols.

Background

Yen won the Designers’ Award on graduation from Sir John Cass in 1995 for her distinctive work and has continued to be acknowledged throughout the industry for the outstanding quality of her work.

Yen was born in Vietnam in 1973. She came to England as a refugee in the 1980’s fleeing the conflict brewing between China and North Vietnam. Her early childhood was spent in the countryside of the Brecon Beacons in Wales. The rolling hills and sheep were a far cry from the dangerous and courageous boat journey that took her and her family to Hong Kong then on to Britain.