Custom Projects

Project Showcase

For over 30 years, The African Touch has created custom-designed hardwood furniture for safari lodges and hotels across Africa. Working closely with owners, designers, and decorators, we craft durable, beautiful pieces, from signature collections to bespoke commissions, built to perform in demanding lodge environments.

Project showcase

We have been making bespoke lodge furniture and safari furiture for Hotels, Lodges and Residential projects in Africa and around the world, for over thirty years, working with many leading architects and designers. Explore some past projects below.

Wilderness Destinations

Over the years we have supplied a many number of Wilderness Destinations camps and lodges with a wide variety of furniture. Not surprisingly, our camp

Time+Tide Luwi

TIME+TIDE Luwi is a remote and authentic camp set deep in the heart of South Luangwa, with no other camps for miles around. Tranquillity envelops

Machaba Mana River Camp

Mana River Camp, owned and managed by Machaba Safaris, offers a comfortable, authentic safari experience where guests are welcomed with warmth into a home away

Custom Lodge Furniture

Hwange Safari Lodge

Hwange Safari Lodge has recently undergone a long-await refurb managed by Turner & Townsend. The African Touch provided most of their bedroom furniture including, custom

Gmundner Lodge Namibia

Last year, Melanie van der Merwe from Women Unleashed Design in Namibia reached out to us to see if we could assist her and her

Verney’s Camp

Verney’s Camp is situated in Hwange National Park. A feature of their camp were the Roorkhee chairs we did for the tented lodges and the

The River Brewery

The River Brewing Company is the first micro-brewery in the resort town of Victoria Falls. Designer Mike Danes commissioned us to build the pub for

The Wine Cellar

We have built a number of wine cellars over the years, but never seem to get pictures once the commission is completed. This is an

Masuwe Lodge

Masuwe Lodge is situated close to Victoria Falls and commissioned Richard Lowe to design all the furniture for the lodge. We used combinations of teak,

Batonka Lodge

Batonka Lodge has managed to combine a modern, light atmosphere with old Colonial buildings. The African Touch were commissioned to build the furniture, pub, dining

Testimonials

Good to see you earlier and just wanted to say how fantastic it is to deal with your business and your staff. The fact that the broken Roorkee was fixed and returned to me while enjoying a cup of coffee in your showroom demonstrates a level of customer service and engagement that one simply does not find in many businesses and all with a helpful smile. Thank you for that and I would honestly have no hesitation in recommending you guys for the quality of your products, the excellent pricing and to top it all great service. Look forward to seeing you include the Abelana story and your products in a promotional piece.

Just to let you know that the furniture delivery arrived on Saturday morning. Thank you very much for all your assistance and we are very grateful for your excellent customer service – the furniture looks great and we look forward to enjoying it for many years to come…

Our consignment of Zambezi Teak furniture is now safely in our oak-framed house in Wiltshire. It is stunning. The Ngwezi table top was a six man lift an now I have oiled it, it is just fabulous.

We are still on a high from the Rhino Without borders function. It was a huge success and as always we will not be able to host such an event without the support from our suppliers and for that we would like to say thank you… This year we hosted 290 guest from Botswana, Zimbabwe as well as South Africa which gave our auction sponsors more exposure. The lot list went to the guests before the event with information of each item and the company who donated the item which allowed the guest to do research before the actual auction so they could pick their favourites they wanted to bid on. Your trunk was a favourite amongst the guest and our local Midas owner was the proud owner of the trunk at the end of the night.

Richard, The Bridge Table has been safely erected and is damage free. We are absolutely delighted, very many thanks. See you in November/December.

My beautiful purchase has survived 3 international moves, 6 house moves, and is still looking perfect! Such good quality. Thank you!

Such a quality product delivered in a blink. Excellent service – best online experience I’ve had so far.

Absolutely awesome, wow, wow our pub is looking incredible! thank you for all.

I wanted to drop a short note to thank you for the table I bought. The table is outstanding and the quality well exceeded my expectations. The service received from Kerry and Graham with the delivery was excellent. Thanks again and will be back soon!

Thanks, Sindy. The tables arrived last night and Nawa assembled them expertly. They are beautiful! Thanks very much for the good work….

The coffee table exceeded my expectations, it was excellent. Thank you very much. I am certain you will hear from me with another order.

Thank you for the follow up call, sorry the signal is so bad here. I do love the directors chairs and drinks trays, they are absolutely perfect. Thank you for your kind offer of a table to go with the chairs, that is really over and above.

Thanks for following up – I’m pleased to say we love the dining table and are very happy with it indeed. It’s exactly what we asked for, great quality and looks lovely too. Thank you for all the trouble you took to arrange the manufacture and delivery for us.