Patrick Mavros creates jewellery and silver objects inspired by African wildlife, with its Harare studio at Mpata Farm in Umwinsidale. The family business traces its beginnings to a pair of earrings made in 1978. Its work ranges from wearable pieces to table objects and sculpture, with another atelier in Mauritius.
Best for Wildlife jewellery and silver sculpture
Patrick Mavros traces the business to earrings Patrick made for Catja in 1978, a family gift that led to requests for more pieces. The family later established its Zimbabwe studio, and the Harare address remains Mpata Farm on Haslemere Lane in Umwinsidale. Animal forms connect much of the collection, from small jewellery to silver sculpture and objects for a dining table. The range includes elephant designs and bird studies, but the objects have different uses: a cufflink is a wearable piece, while a candelabrum becomes part of a table setting. All four sons entered the creative life of the business, and the company's history records a separate Mauritius jewellery studio opening in 2006. That second workshop matters when considering where an individual piece was made. Buyers can approach the Harare studio about available work or commissions, rather than treating the wider international catalogue as a guarantee of local stock. For a substantial sculpture, ask about its dimensions and delivery arrangements before deciding how it will travel home.
An artist-run gallery showing contemporary African art from spaces in Harare and Victoria Falls, First Floor represents painters including Wycliffe Mundopa, Gresham Nyaude and Troy Makaza.
Founded in 1970 and laid out across a landscaped park at 1 Harrow Road in Msasa, Chapungu holds one of the world's largest collections of Zimbabwean stone sculpture and supports artists through exhibitions and residencies. Its gallery and online shop sell works in springstone, serpentine and opal by established and emerging Shona sculptors.
All Things Designer ZW describes itself as a high-end fashion house offering exclusive fashion pieces for him and her. It says it keeps customers updated on fashion trends.
Buna Brew roasts single-origin and blended coffee beans in-house and sells ground coffee and home brewing gear from its Cafe Fiesta location at 53 Corydon Rd, Orange Grove, Chinhoyi. It also hires out pop-up coffee carts and offers barista training and B2B wholesale coffee.
Crafted by Leo makes handcrafted sterling silver jewellery, including animal, sea and flower-themed pieces plus men's jewellery, necklaces, earrings and rings, inspired by the natural wonders and patterns of Zimbabwe. The account is run under the name Leo and has posted new pieces as recently as July and August 2026.
Best for Nature-inspired sterling silver jewellery
South African chain founded 1929 by Morris and Eli Ross in Johannesburg, named after London's Swan & Edgar department store; expanded into Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) in the late 1940s.
Best for Mid-range fashion, beauty, and shoes for the family
Edgars was founded on 6 September 1929 by brothers Morris and Eli Ross, who opened the first store on Joubert Street in Johannesburg. The name was borrowed from Swan & Edgar, the London department store the brothers used as a model. Sydney Press joined the company in Cape Town in the mid-1930s as a temporary employee and eventually took ownership, driving an expansion that added a second Johannesburg store on Eloff Street in 1937 and branches across South Africa. The chain crossed into what was then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the late 1940s, with sources placing the first store there between 1946 and 1949 under Press's ownership; it was formally registered as a company in 1948. By 1960 the group operated close to 140 stores regionwide, a figure that more than doubled within five years, and it later absorbed other Southern African retail chains including Sales House and Jet Stores. This Harare branch, in the Eastgate shopping centre, continues the mid-market department-store format the Ross brothers established in Johannesburg nearly a century earlier.
Eileen Madzime hand-forms sheet metal with a hammer to create silver necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings organised into collections such as the Savanna, Connected, One-Off and Minimalist ranges. The Zimbabwe-based shop also offers custom-made jewellery, wholesale and private-label inquiries.
Established in 1975 and later housed in the 1894 former home of landscape painter Robert Paul on Livingstone Avenue, Gallery Delta ran a changing programme of Zimbabwean painting, graphics, ceramics and mixed-media sculpture. It exhibited and sold contemporary work while serving as a research resource for collectors and students of the country's art. The gallery closed in April 2022 after the deaths of founders Helen Lieros and Derek Huggins.
Best for Contemporary Zimbabwean painting and graphics
Hippo Studio hand-paints ceramic tableware and homeware, with every piece hand-signed by its decorator, in collections such as the Chekari and Belinda Mary ranges featuring Mashona, Matebele and Zambezi-pattern designs. The Zimbabwe studio's potters, decorators and kiln staff ship internationally through its own shop site.
Liberty Tailors was established in 1952 by Khalil Ahmed Parbhoo, known as Solly, starting in a small Salisbury storefront and now run as a third-generation family business at 33 Carsberg Ave, New Alex Park, Harare. In 2013 the tailors altered suits at State House for a wedding in President Mugabe's family.
The National Handicraft Centre, founded in 1989 by the Government of Zimbabwe at 4 Grant Street, Harare, sells basketry, textiles, sculpture, pottery, stone and wood carvings, tribal masks and jewellery made using traditional methods, and links community producer groups, about 75% of them rural women, to the market. The centre has over 150 members and received first runner-up for Best Culture and Heritage Stand at the 2025 Sanganai Tourism Expo.
Best for Traditional Zimbabwean basketry and carvings
Run by Tim and Emma Haire on Harare's Airport Road, this gallery displays more than sixty large Shona sculptures across an outdoor garden and a covered Spanish-style verandah. Pieces in serpentine and springstone are sold on site and shipped worldwide, sourced directly from Zimbabwean sculptors.
Veldemeers was established in 1997 by Hans Van Hooreweghe and makes handcrafted Belgian chocolates, cakes and pastries using authentic Belgian recipes and Zimbabwean craftsmanship. The business now employs 16 trained chocolate makers and bakers.
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Harare offers very different scales of art purchase. A piece of jewellery can travel with its owner, while a stone sculpture needs a plan for its destination. Patrick Mavros, First Floor Gallery Harare and Chapungu give you three distinct starting points. Their locations are separate, so choose according to the work you want to see rather than treating them as one shopping street.
Patrick Mavros lists its Harare location at Mpata Farm on Haslemere Lane in UmwinsidaleS1. The range includes jewellery and freestanding silver sculptures, from collectible miniatures to larger piecesS2.
First Floor Gallery Harare lists its address at 3 Castille Court, 65 Josiah Tongogara Street. Its artists include Wycliffe Mundopa and Helen Teede. The website provides exhibition viewing rooms that let you begin looking before a visitS3.
Chapungu Sculpture Park lists a Harare address at 1 Harrow Road in Msasa. Its stated focus is Zimbabwean stone sculpture. The organisation also describes a permanent collection in which selected works were retained rather than soldS4.
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