Our Story
"UK Bespoke Jeweller of the Year 2024" and "Ethical Jeweller of the Year 2024"
Trailblazing and Award Winning Jewellers
Our Story
"UK Bespoke Jeweller of the Year 2024" and "Ethical Jeweller of the Year 2024"
Our Vision
“To celebrate everyone’s individuality with innovation and creativity”
We believe in innovation, excellence and sound ethics and we’ll work together to successfully tell your unique story with beautiful bespoke jewellery
Meet the Team
We’re a special mix of jewellery designers, CAD specialists, gemmologists, experienced goldsmiths and beyond, all based in the UK.
We’ve been delivering award-winning creative design, master craftsmanship and customer service since 1998.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do
- We warmly collaborate with each customer to tell their individual story and design for them, not ourselves.
- We want everyone to love the creative bespoke experience as much as they love the high-quality result.
- We promote innovation, expertise and education and celebrate traditional craftsmanship alongside cutting-edge technology.
- We use simple, heartfelt language and encourage lively inquisitiveness amongst ourselves, our industry, and our customers.
- We are open, authentic, honest, and transparent. We strive to be socially and environmentally responsible believing no one should suffer in the Jewellery supply chain.
- We believe in collaboration, inclusivity, and individuality and ensure our approachable bespoke design service is of exceptional value. We will always go the extra mile to offer treasured bespoke jewellery to everyone.
Our Journey
Brought to life in 1998, Harriet’s vision and drive didn’t stop in its starting point of her kitchen table. Her innovative concept was set for bigger things and by early 2000 had expanded, moving to her first studio in the North Hertfordshire village of Weston. Award followed award and by 2002 had received a special commendation from the judges at the National Jewellery Awards.
Alongside Harriet’s talent and prestige, growth continued. In 2004 we moved to a newly converted Tudor barn just down the road, in Halls Green near Hitchin. The studio was opened by Charlie Higson, better known as Swiss Tony from BBC TV’s The Fast Show! The Hertfordshire Jewellery centre offers a completely different approach to retail and bespoke design, with an open view to our onsite goldsmith’s workshop. In 2012, this concept led to the retail industry heralding it as one of the most significant achievements of the year.
In 2005 the vision of a ‘Design for the High Street’ concept store was realised through the opening of a new branch in Green Street in Cambridge. It’s a friendly, walk-in design studio that has achieved the UK Jewellery Award for innovation.
We continued to grow and in the year that marked twenty years since Harriet launched the business, our third location opened its doors in North London’s Primrose Hill. Just moments away from the green open spaces of Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill, the London Studio and Shop combines cutting edge retail with a working design studio.
Holding strong connections to her childhood, it was only fitting that her next venture was opening a 4th studio on Chequer Street, St Albans. Surrounded by history, iconic cobbled streets and a stone’s throw from the Cathedral, it’s the perfect setting to share our creativity.
Today Harriet Kelsall Bespoke Jewellery is a team of over 40, running events, seminars and building connections within each community the studios are a part of. We’re proud to be recognised in the UK and across the world as a leader in bespoke jewellery design and held nationally as an inspirational market-leading business.
Winner of “Best Start-Up Inspiration Book” at The Business Book Awards 2019, this is an indispensable book for anyone with a creative passion for making beautiful items and who want to turn their creativity into a career.
Do you have a passion for making beautiful objects? Do you feel dissatisfied by your current job or lifestyle? Are you wondering whether you can take the next step and turn your creativity into your profession?
Written by Harriet Kelsall, a highly successful creative business woman and mentor to creative start-ups, this inspirational guide offers easy-to-follow advice from talented and accomplished industry experts, including Keith Brymer Jones (BBC 2’s The Great British Pottery Throw Down), Richard Weston (BBC 2’s Britain’s Next Big Thing), Anna Scholz and many more.
There are practical exercises that will help you sell your creations, choose the right time to start your business, and guide you through as you do so. Take on board guidance on writing a business plan, identifying and reaching customers, researching your competition, pricing products and testing the market, and finally promoting your business successfully.
Packed with interviews, encouraging real life case studies and tips from successful entrepreneurs who turned their passion into their own successful creative business, this practical guide will take you through the very first steps of defining creative and financial success to ultimately establishing a rewarding start-up.
Our Awards
“We’re so proud to have been judged by our peers and the public as worthy enough to win a number of prestigious national and international awards.
It marks our work as jewellers, our contributions to ethics within the industry and our innovative approach to what we do. It’s rewarding to also be the industry’s choice for bespoke jewellery, where jewellery professionals such as diamond dealers, lapidarists and those working within ethics and responsibility choose us for personal commissions.
When I started the company, my vision was an organisation that was a force for good, both within the industry and beyond. It would champion ethical and environmental issues and promote skilled design and craftsmanship. I can say with confidence we have achieved this. And we will continue to make positive contributions that help the jewellery industry flourish, improving career paths for talented jewellery designers, and to help others in developing worlds through Fairtrade and other ethical initiatives.”
HARRIET KELSALL