Our Mission
The Eighth Wonder is a family-owned company offering finely crafted jewelry designs in sterling silver, precious and semiprecious gemstones for women and men.
We are a vertically integrated company, meaning we design, manufacture, market, and sell our products. Additionally, to enhance the experience of shopping in our store, we provide custom made home décor from handmade lanterns, rugs, pottery, and much more.
We offer over 10,000 designs from jewelry items to small gifts all around the world. So, allow us to give you exotic shopping experience as you’ve never had before!
Come shop the world without jet-lag!
Our Design
The Eighth Wonder’s designs reflect things that are important to craftsmanship.
We offer handmade jewelry from simple hand assembled pendants and bracelets to intricate designs that take months or years and skilled techniques to finish. What they all have in common though is that jewelry and pottery artists make each individual piece using only their hands and simple tools. When you choose to purchase a piece of handmade jewelry or ceramic or rug, you're going to get a unique keepsake each time. There may be slight imperfections but there will always be a story behind not only the design but the artist your buying.
Our History
Mehmet Shon Celik, a visionary businessman with over two decades of creating and managing successful ventures in hospitality, retail, and global trade. Expertly creates demand for compelling offerings to a diverse customer base and innovative value propositions.
In the summer of 1998, Mehmet Shon Celik started his first retail business in the United States, Another Time & Place. His store consisted of variety of designs that he personally designed and manufactured in his own company.
He established a multi-million-dollar revenue generating retail store which focused on exotic apparel, furnishings, and goods in the heart of the affluent Legacy Town Center district of Plano, Texas.
He also owns a boutique hotel and restaurants—Aristocrat Hotel, Turkish Cafe & Lounge, and WooodTop Tavern. While he continues to successfully oversee management of an 18-room boutique hotel in the heart of the historical district of Istanbul, he runs a multimillion-dollar restaurant and sports bar in the heart of Plano, Texas.
Turkish Cafe & Lounge
In 2013, Mehmet Shon Celik decided to bring a taste of home to Texas when he struggled to find authentic Turkish and Middle Eastern cuisines while traveling the world.
Today Turkish Café & Lounge, at Preston Road and State Highway 121, has become the largest such restaurant of its kind in the area and sponsors cultural events on weekends that attracts 600 to 700 people.
Co-Owner
After several years growing under the roof of self-affluent entrepreneurial household, Dilayda Celik decided to share the same passion and love for entrepreneurism as her parents.
Dilayda Celik, is a current senior at The University of Texas at Dallas studying Accounting with a minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship in hopes to attend law school in Fall 2022. After firsthand experiencing her parents’ entrepreneurial path she decided to follow their footsteps and take the business into another step by opening a retail store, The Eighth Wonder, an online boutique that shares exotic and unique jewelry collections, handmade rugs and lanterns. Sharing the same passion as her parents, Dilayda, wanted to provide a a unique shopping experience that showcased gifts from all round the world to everyone.