ZANOVA
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Whether it's a luxury lodge, safari camp, hotel, Airbnb, residence, office, or restaurant, tell us what you need, and let our team help bring it to life.
From custom furniture and wood craftsmanship to complete interior concepts, we'll recommend designs, materials, and finishes that suit your space, environment and style.
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Furniture & Interior Craftsmanship
Made for spaces that matter.
We design, make and install furniture and interior joinery, from a single lounge chair to a forty-two room hotel package.
Shop by room
Every room, considered as a whole.
Catalogue pieces are the starting point. Nearly all of them can be resized, refinished and re-upholstered to your specification.
All categories
Featured
Pieces we return to.
A short list of the designs that leave the workshop most often, in stock or made to your dimensions.
Shop ready to ship
The workshop
Drawn, machined, hand-fitted and finished under one roof.
Nothing is subcontracted out of sight. Machining, joinery, upholstery and finishing all happen in the same building, which is why we can change a dimension on a Tuesday and still ship on schedule.
14
Years making
120+
Projects delivered
40
Craftspeople
Custom work
If it can be drawn, it can be made.
Work from your architect's drawings, a photograph, or a sketch on the back of an invoice. We produce general arrangement drawings for approval before anything is cut.
01
Consultation
We meet on site or online, take the brief, and establish budget, programme and access constraints.
02
Design
General arrangement drawings, elevations and, where volume justifies it, a full prototype for sign-off.
03
Material Selection
Timber, stone, metal and textiles selected against use, climate and maintenance capability.
04
Craftsmanship
Machining to jig, hand-fitted joinery, upholstery and finishing in our own workshop.
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Delivery & Installation
Crating, transport and installation by our own teams, including remote and phased programmes.
Projects
Delivered, installed, still in service.
Full furniture packages for lodges, hotels, restaurants and private homes across the region.
All projects
Materials
Chosen for the climate they'll live in.
Solid timber
01Iroko, mvule, African walnut and teak, conditioned to the climate of the destination.
Natural stone
02Worktops, tops and vanity surfaces cut and sealed for the way each surface is used.
Metal
03Blackened and powder-coated steel for structure, wear edges and fine detailing.
Upholstery
04Linen, wool and leather, cut and sewn in-house with removable, re-coverable panels.
Cane and woven work
05Hand-woven cane and rattan panels, produced by weavers we have worked with for years.
Responsible sourcing
06Locally sourced material where the specification allows, with offcut recovery in the workshop.
New & bestselling
Recently off the bench.
Clients
What they say afterwards.
“We're into our second high season and I keep waiting for something to fail. The spares crate they shipped with us is still sealed. The only thing we've broken is a mirror in transit, and that was our driver's doing, not the piece.”
Grace Mwaikenda
Lodge manager, Serengeti Safari Lodge
“They asked for our setting-out drawings before they would quote, which almost nobody does. The kitchen island landed three millimetres off our dimension. We checked expecting to find trouble. There wasn't any.”
Peter Kasilu
Project architect, Dar es Salaam
“We stayed open the whole way through: night installs in the public areas, floors done one at a time. The bar top took a full year of service before it needed anything more than an oil. That genuinely surprised our own contractor.”
Rashid Komba
Operations director, boutique hotel group, Moshi
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