When I got married a few years back, my father picked out a few traditional items for me to have in my wedding such as these antique rosewood baskets for Chris (my nervous husband) and his family packed with gifts and blessings and brought over to my house to start the wedding day court ship. We first played the traditional games then Chris had to serenade me, and offer my family gifts in those large baskets. For my wedding ceremony, I wore the traditional qipao (long dress) and around us, we had much of the antique furniture that you can find in our showroom. We kept the wedding very “traditional.”

Fast forward to the present and you can see that our concepts and designs are very much inspired by our traditional values and rich Asian heritage as well as today’s contemporary fashions. With every design, we want to keep the fashion chic but at the same time keep a sense of Asian heritage within it. Tiffany and I are avid shoppers so designing comes very naturally for us. We have a lot of traditional housewares, clothing, and accessories, but where we really let the creative juices flow is when we design our style of home decor, clothing, and accessories. We design it with today’s style trends in mind.

Tiffany and I started off working in our father’s stores at very young ages and today, we add the something “new” to Old Shanghai.

-- Renee Tam