Our Story
Three Generations.
One Table. Your Story.
Before VANA had a name, it had a workbench. In 1965, in Taiping, Wayne's grandmother Madam Go founded Tai Hee Jade and Jewellery — sourcing jadeite and precious gemstones, and growing it into a wholesale house that supplied the trade across Malaysia.
Wayne Lau grew up learning stones the way most people learn their mother tongue: by handling thousands of them. Diamonds under the loupe. Jadeite held against the light. Pearls rolled between fingers to feel the nacre.
In 2016, Wayne and his wife Emily Tan — the woman our clients affectionately call Mrs. VANA — stepped away from wholesale to build something quieter: a private, by-appointment jeweller where you sit with the same two people every time, and talk about the moment you're marking.
Jewellery was never meant to be a transaction. It was always meant to be a story you can hold.
Our family's story was featured in The Edge Malaysia.