Our Founder
Sandy Ip’s love affair with jewelry began with a single dazzling red stone—an heirloom passed down from her great-grandfather to her grandmother, and finally, to a young Sandy at just seven years old. From the moment she held the ring, she was spellbound. As her mother shared stories of her grandmother, Sandy would cradle the ring in her palm, tracing its facets, lost in the way light pooled and shimmered within the stone. That first spark of wonder never faded; it became the quiet compass of her life’s work.
Years later, another kind of stone called to her—this time, not a gem, but a mountain. During a journey from Beijing to New Delhi, she found herself in the presence of Mount Kailash, Tibet’s sacred peak. Beneath its golden-hued slopes, stark against the endless sky, she felt something rare: a deep, wordless kinship. The mountain’s stillness seemed to mirror the quiet intensity of her grandmother’s ring—both timeless, both speaking a language beyond words.
That moment began a pilgrimage to stand humbly before the world’s most majestic heights. She wandered the Annapurna range and Everest Base Camps in Nepal and Tibet, traced the snow-laced borders of India and Pakistan, felt the ancient breath of Cotopaxi’s volcanic earth in Ecuador, walked the glacial whispers of Patagonia, and stood in the thin, sacred air of Mt. Roraima in Venezuela and Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Each journey was a lesson in listening to the silence of stones, to the way light moves across landscapes, to the stories etched into the earth itself.
Returning to Hong Kong, her hands and heart full, Sandy poured these revelations into Sevun, founded in 2015. The name is an ode to those who shaped her: each letter plucked from the names of people she loves, a hidden lattice of devotion beneath every piece. Like the mountains that taught her to see anew, Sevun’s designs honor the quiet dialogue between raw beauty and human hands—jewelry that carries the weight of place and memory.
Before Sevun, Sandy honed her craft in New York City, launching a jewelry line in 2005 that graced cases at Bloomingdale’s and Saks Fifth Avenue. Today, Sevun’s atelier in Hong Kong crafts pieces that feel unearthed yet refined, as if each gem has absorbed the light of distant peaks.
Sandy holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Babson College and an MBA from Pace University, but her true credentials are written in the stones she chooses and the slopes she’s walked. A GIA-accredited Graduate Gemologist and holder of the GIA Jewelry Design Certificate, she bridges the empirical and the poetic—a rare alchemist of earth’s treasures.
