Taso (Anastasios Haidemenakis) was born in Chania, Crete but grew up abroad, mostly in Honolulu, Hawaii. He currently resides in Chania or at his house in Bali, Indonesia.

     His inspirations are created by hand using exquisite silversmith traditional techniques. He uses various semiprecious stones in his designs but his favorite is Larimar which he discovered while living in Santo Domingo.

   He has extensive retail & wholesale experience & has participated in many US International Gift & Jewelry Trade Shows (JIS, JA, LA, NY, Gift Shows etc) & has appeared on tv introducing Larimar on QVC.

    He has exhibited his collection "Meninas del Mar" at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, at the Museum of Modern Art & at the Palace of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic & in Greece at the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Akropolis, Athens.

      Taso's jewelry & art is held in private collections all over the world. His Larimar jewelry has been worn by royalty (the Queen of Spain), heads of state (President of USA, President of Argentina), designers (Jean-Paul Gaultier), international diplomats & celebrities.

" I find inspiration for my designs everywhere, in everything that I have studied or experienced during my transcontinental life & many travels, in the expressions of nature, all the shades of blue in the flag & the waters of Greece and the Caribbean Sea, the elaborate decorative designs of South East Asia and in the creative work & company of artists all over he world. "