5 African Luxury Interior Designers You Should Know

Words by Tia Muhammad

Looking to match your love for African fashion with your home or office décor? Look to these luxury African interior designers to make your style of choice look immaculate, across the board. Read on for some heavy interior inspiration…

Mlondolozi Hempe

Most known for his interior collaborations with luxury knitwear designer, MaXhosa by Laduma in 2014, Mlondolozi Hempe is a creative in architecture that explores design by tapping into numerous avenues of spaces. He not only curates product and furniture design, but also spatial planning for exhibitions, design events and interiors. Through his keen eye for detail, he pushes the envelope of design through his creative product consulting and brand development projects. Learn More

La Grange Interiors

Founded in 1996 in the heart of Franschhoek, South Africa, La Grange Interiors was created by Sumari Krige. Inspired by effortlessly blends old with new, classic and contemporary style with easy, elegant living, her brand provides soft furnishings in 100% linens to timeworn antiques, custom designed wooden furniture, lamps, accessories, glassware and interior design services.Learn More

Eva Sonaike

Nigerian-German interior designer and home décor expert, Eva Sonaike, has a perfect stake in the growing global interest in African design, textiles and products. Taking the world by storm, her aim is to position the 'African' aesthetic in the global textiles and interior industry as part of luxury interior and lifestyle brands. London-based with a distinctive and vibrant West-African aesthetic, her interiors and lifestyle brand creates luxurious textiles, home-décor, accessories and interior design services. Learn More

Bolé Road Textiles

Ethiopian, Brooklyn based designer, Hana Getachew started Bolé Road Textiles out of a desire to merge her love of Ethiopian handwoven fabrics with her career in interior design. Her affinity for vibrant colors and graphic patterns finally merged with her upbringing infused with traditional Ethiopian textiles, and Bolé Road Textiles was born. Her designs for Bolé Road are an homage to that cultural inheritance and a reflection of her own personal global modern aesthetic. Learn More

Nthabi Taukobong

Exclusively designed and made in South Africa, Nthabi Taukobong started Ditau Interiors to provide an exclusive design service to a niche clientele, she likes to call ‘barefoot luxury’. An interior designer based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nthabi has a luxurious, yet effortlessly functional design style and a strong focus on creating liveable interiors created with an African touch. Learn More