Bespoke commissions
Design your ring with the person who will make it
This is for you if you are choosing who will design and make an engagement ring, or any piece that has to mean something and cannot be replaced with something similar.
A free, private design session in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, or by video call wherever you are. No fee, no card details, and nothing is cut until you have approved the design yourself.
Why it matters
Most rings are chosen, not designed
Most engagement rings are chosen, not designed. You stand at a counter, under time pressure, picking from what is already made. Someone who did not design the ring, and cannot change it, tells you what it costs. If a detail bothers you, the usual answer is that it cannot be altered, or that altering it costs more than the ring itself.
You are being asked to spend several thousand pounds on something you will wear for the rest of your life, decided in twenty minutes, by someone whose job is to close the sale rather than to understand what the ring is meant to say.
That is a lot to get wrong quietly.
The difference
Sitting with the maker
A design session is different in one respect that matters: you sit with the person who will actually make the ring, not someone selling on his behalf. You describe what the piece needs to say, whatever it is drawn from, a shared history, a place, a stone that matters to your family, a line from something you both love. Hamed sketches as you talk, and nothing about the design is fixed until you have seen it modelled and said yes.
No counter, no pressure to decide today, and no salesperson standing between you and the person doing the work.
The session
What actually happens
One conversation, unhurried, with the person who will make the piece.
You talk, and it is a conversation rather than a form
What the piece is for, who it is for, what it needs to survive day to day, and what it should never look like. The brief comes out of this, not out of a dropdown.
Hamed sketches, with you there
By hand, as you talk, working through shape, stone and detail. Proportion and weight are easier to feel with a pencil than with a mouse, and it is far cheaper to change an idea at this stage than at any later one.
You get honest numbers
What the design would cost to make, broken across the metal, the centre stone, the design and modelling, and the making. Not one number with nothing behind it.
You leave, owing nothing
There is no obligation to commission anything, and nothing to pay for the session whatever you decide afterwards.
Who you are dealing with
An honest account
Studio Saina Ltd is a registered, VAT-registered UK company trading as Silux London. Every piece is designed, modelled and made by Hamed personally, working from a studio in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. He is a published author on jewellery design and manufacture, and a catalogue of original design work is published on this site alongside the full design process, from first sketch to finished piece.
There is no press coverage or industry recognition to show yet, so none is claimed here. Client stories and photographs of finished pieces will appear as commissions complete and clients agree to share them. Silux London has not yet completed a commissioned piece this year. That is the truth of a young studio, and this page will be updated as it changes rather than filled with something borrowed.
Afterwards
What happens if you go ahead
The session is free, and it is genuinely free rather than a discounted trial with a catch attached. The design conversation is where a commission is really decided, whether it happens here or somewhere else, and it deserves to happen properly before anyone spends a penny.
If you decide to go ahead afterwards, you receive a full written quotation. A deposit of half starts the work, your piece is then modelled in three dimensions for your approval, and the balance falls due once it is finished and ready to post.
Hamed designs and makes every piece himself, so only a limited number of commissions run at any one time. If a date sits behind your piece, a proposal, an anniversary, a birthday, start earlier than you think you need to. The full commission process, pricing and lead times are set out in detail if you would like them first.
No fee, no obligation
Book your design session
Tell us a little about the piece and how to reach you. Hamed replies personally.
- 1About the piece
- 2Budget and timeline
- 3Review and send
What are you looking for?
Piece type
Occasion (optional)
Questions
Before you book
Is the session really free, and is there a catch?
It is free and there is no catch. No fee, no card details, and no obligation to commission anything afterwards. You keep the sketch either way.
How long does a commission take?
Once you have approved the model, the piece is made, finished and hallmarked in three to four weeks. From the point you approve the design, six to ten weeks is the honest working range, because the modelling and approval stages sit in between, a printed prototype too if you would like one, and a particular centre stone can take time to source. If you are working towards a fixed date, say so at the start and it will be worked backwards from that date before you commit to anything.
Do I have to come to Birmingham?
No. The session runs in the Jewellery Quarter studio if you would like to visit, or by video call wherever you are. Commissions are made for clients outside the UK as well as in it.
What if I do not like the design once I can see it properly?
That is exactly what the approval stages are for. Nothing is cast, set or cut until you have seen the piece modelled in three dimensions and confirmed it is right, and if the model does not match the design you approved it is remodelled at our cost.
What if I change my mind after paying the deposit?
If you decide not to continue after the model has been made but before you approve it, your deposit is refunded less £250 for the design and modelling already done, and nothing will have been made. A piece made to your own specification does not carry the usual fourteen-day right to change your mind, which is exactly why every decision sits before the making rather than after it.
I do not know what I want yet. Is it too early?
No, and that is usually the better time to have the conversation. Coming with a feeling, a story or a single detail is enough to work from. Arriving certain of every specification is rarer than people expect.