A house of provenance
African Luxury Group restores, makes and sources for those who ask that a thing be flawless — and draws on a network that reaches from a weaver's loom in Persia to a dealer's floor in Paris.
African Luxury Group is a specialist house of restoration, bespoke making and prestige styling, built for a narrow and demanding category of work: environments and objects where the standard is not “good”, but flawless, and where the audience may be a head of state, a collector, or a camera.
Under one roof we hold what a fine interior usually has to gather from a dozen separate hands — conservation and gilding, upholstery and cabinetmaking, carpet care, interior decoration and event styling — carried in our own four ateliers and answered by a single accountable eye.
And when a piece must be found rather than made — a particular Tabriz, a signed French bronze, a Georgian tea service — we do not send the client to the market. We go to it, through a network built over three decades.
Whatever the piece, wherever it must come from.
Contacts in the countries the finest things come from
Provenance should never be a barrier. Over thirty years we have built trusted relationships with agents, dealers, restorers and makers across the world — so that a single instruction to us sets sourcing, authentication, export, shipping, restoration and placement in motion, and the client deals only ever with African Luxury Group.
Persia & the Levant
Carpets & textilesAntique Persian carpets — Tabriz, Kashan, Isfahan and Heriz — tribal rugs and kilims, sourced close to the loom and restored, washed and rewoven in our own workshop.
France
Antiques & ormoluFrench antiques: Louis XV and XVI furniture, gilt-bronze ormolu, Sèvres and Limoges porcelain, Aubusson tapestry, and Baccarat crystal and chandeliers.
Italy
Giltwood, glass & marbleFlorentine giltwood and mirrors, Murano glass, marble and pietra dura, and Baroque and Renaissance pieces with documented provenance.
United Kingdom
Silver & fine artGeorgian and Victorian silver and Sheffield plate, mahogany and walnut furniture, and fine oil paintings and prints.
Belgium & the Low Countries
Tapestry & Old MastersFlemish tapestry, Old Master and 19th-century paintings, and Delft — the traditional heart of the European trade.
Morocco & North Africa
Silver & metalworkHand-raised silver tea services, engraved trays and lanterns, and the metalwork traditions of the Maghreb.
Switzerland
HorologyFine timepieces and clocks, sourced and serviced through the horological houses — a relationship of long standing.
Japan
Ceramics & kintsugiCeramics, lacquerware and the masters of kintsugi — the art of the golden repair that is the philosophy of this house.
India & the East
Carpets & carvingHand-knotted carpets, carved hardwoods, brass and fine textiles from the workshops of the subcontinent.
South Africa
Home & the ateliersOur four ateliers, and a new generation of African makers, artists and designers — the local hand behind every project.
One house, every provenance
A fine piece bought abroad usually means a chain of strangers — a dealer, a shipper, a customs agent, a restorer, an installer — and the risk sits with the buyer at every link. We collapse that chain into a single relationship.
You tell us what you are looking for. We find it, verify it, negotiate it, bring it home, restore it in our own workshops, and place it in the room. One point of contact, one standard, one account.
Sourced & authenticated
We buy at origin and confirm provenance and condition before a rand is committed.
Shipped & cleared
Export, insurance, freight and customs handled end to end, with chain-of-custody throughout.
Restored in-house
Whatever arrives is brought to condition in our own restoration and gilding workshop.
Placed with discretion
Delivered and installed to the room, quietly, and never publicised without consent.
The people behind the house
For more than three decades a defining figure in South African luxury — founder and publisher of DEKAT, executive producer of DEKAT-TV, and a trusted consultant to The Presidency, for whom she delivered the dignitary lounges of the G20, BRICS and African Union summits. Her thirty-year network is the reach African Luxury Group brings to your treasures.
Maria is co-owner of African Luxury Group and its designated successor, on a structured five-year path to take over the leadership of the company. She brings meticulous operational command — overseeing projects, people and the house to head-of-state standards — while mastering every part of the business she will one day lead.