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Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Temple Muse pairs international luxury labels with emerging Nigerian designers across two gallery-proportioned floors in Victoria Island, styled with what the store calls an Afro-Parisian aesthetic. Beyond racks of fashion and homeware, it runs an in-house art gallery and a champagne bar.
Best for Nigerian and international designer fashion, homeware and art
Ikoyi, Lagos
Zashadu makes handbags, clothing, slippers and accessories using reclaimed leather, with current pieces including the "1982 Handbag," the "Rafaelis Duster Trouser Set" and "The Solstice Slipper." Its collections are released in numbered chapters, including a limited "The Exception" line described as a numbered edition with no repetition.
Best for Reclaimed-leather handbags and accessories
Surulere
Patabah Books has sold books, stationery, and gifts from Lagos since 1987. Its Surulere shop sits inside the Adeniran Ogunsanya Shopping Mall, open Monday through Saturday.
Best for Books, stationery and gifts in Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria
Founded in Lagos in 2017, Aaboux has third-generation leather artisans build its bags using a near stitch-less construction technique, working in exotic finishes like pony hair and embossed leather. The brand sources hide from agricultural by-products and partners with women-owned businesses in its supply chain.
Best for Handcrafted leather bags with exotic finishes
Ikoyi
Ablesworth Pottery operates a studio inside Flex Lagos on Omorinre Johnson Street in Lekki Phase 1. The team teaches ceramics basics on site and runs pop-up sessions at client locations.
Best for Pottery classes and ceramics workshops
Victoria Island
African Artists' Foundation was established in Lagos in 2007 and operates from Victoria Island as a community-focused art space. It describes its work as decentralized and experimental, moving beyond a conventional nonprofit model.
Best for Contemporary African art and community space
Lagos, Nigeria
This Lagos ready-to-wear label builds its collections around adire, sourcing the resist-dyed cloth directly from artisans in Osogbo who still hand-tie and indigo-dye it using techniques passed down through generations. Dresses, matching sets and trousers are cut from that fabric rather than printed imitations.
Best for Adire ready-to-wear dresses and sets
Lagos
Aries Vogue offers bespoke and made-to-order men's and women's wear from Ikeja, Lagos state, with custom fits and worldwide shipping. Its page describes the pieces as "timeless, tailored for you."
Best for Bespoke tailored menswear and womenswear
Victoria Island
A 600-square-meter contemporary art and design space at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos, open since April 2013.
Best for Contemporary art and design exhibitions
Surulere
ArtForFun operates under CraftsVillage Nigeria from a studio on Ogunlana Drive in Surulere, Lagos. Sessions run there and at client venues cover pottery and candle making for both kids and adults.
Best for Pottery and candle-making workshops for kids
Lagos / Online
Nigeria-based online art supply store selling paints, brushes, canvases and drawing materials, marketed as "original art supplies" for artists at every level. The storefront serves both beginners and experienced practitioners.
Best for Original art supplies for beginner and experienced artists, Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
Bimbo Balogun built this jewelry house from two necklaces she sold in 2006 into a Lagos brand working in beads, gemstones, gold and silver, taking both stock and custom orders. The company also runs its own community workshops and training programs alongside its retail line.
Best for Custom beaded and gemstone jewelry
Lekki Phase 1
CeraCerni's Art Hub opened in 2021 on Akintunde Adeyemi Drive in Lekki Phase 1, filling Lagos' lack of a walk-in creative space. The studio pairs a cafe and gallery, offering wheel-thrown pottery and rug tufting taught by working artists.
Best for Hands-on pottery and rug-tufting sessions
Lagos
Clay of Lagos hand-throws each piece on the wheel and finishes it by hand in its Lagos studio. Its workshops draw on Yoruba lineage and the quiet discipline of clay work, kept unhurried and welcoming.
Best for Wheel-thrown pottery and clay workshops
Lagos
Bespoke tailoring shop selling custom-made suits, shirts, kaftans, agbada, shoes, bags and accessories for men and women, delivering globally.
Best for Made-to-measure suits and traditional African wear
Lagos
Dune makes chocolate bars, including 70% and 55% dark, milk, white and mint varieties, using cocoa and cocoa butter the company says is farmed and produced entirely in Nigeria with no cocoa butter substitutes. It is headquartered on Wempco Road in Ogba, Lagos, and keeps cold storage points across Nigeria for fresh delivery, with some chocolate-making machinery engineered and built in-house.
Best for Nigerian-grown couverture chocolate bars
Lagos
EGWU runs as a vinyl collective and independent music enterprise based in Lagos and London. It sells records spanning highlife and afrobeat while building a community of collectors through its blog and events.
Best for Vinyl records across highlife and afrobeat
Yaba
A jewelry shop in Lagos offering jewelry sales, custom goldsmith work, wedding rings and repairs.
Best for Custom jewelry, wedding rings and repairs
Lagos
Custom picture framing shop in Nigeria offering framing services designed to preserve and present artwork for customers.
Best for Custom picture framing services
Lagos
Lagos-based goldsmith offering handcrafted jewellery, repair services and custom orders, shipping worldwide via WhatsApp contact.
Best for Custom jewellery and repair services
Falomo Ikoyi
Glendora Bookshop describes itself as a social-cultural, independent book and music store based in Lagos, Nigeria. It says it is known for a wide selection of rare titles spanning both books and records.
Best for Rare books and music finds
Lagos
Graceful Beads offers "bespoke and affordable handmade bead jewelleries and costume" pieces from Magodo, Lagos. A recent post features an "effortlessly elegant Baroque pearl piece."
Best for Handmade beaded jewelry
Ogun
Harbury Nigeria Limited makes spices under its Lion Brand label from a plant off the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State. Curry powder and dried thyme are among the products it supplies across Nigeria and West Africa.
Best for Spices and dried herbs like thyme
Lagos
Hazken frames pictures from its Shomolu, Lagos workshop using fibre frame material with canvas laminating film and full-colour printing. The team brands and wraps each finished frame before shipping it to customers.
Best for Custom picture framing and printing
Lagos
A toy store in Lagos selling indoor and outdoor toys including bouncing castles, swings, playhouses and slides.
Best for Indoor and outdoor kids toys
Victoria Island
Hourglass Gallery has run its exhibition space on Saka Jojo Street in Victoria Island, Lagos, since 2014. It showcases artist profiles alongside a searchable inventory of recent and past works for sale.
Best for Browsing artwork and artist profiles
Victoria Island
Nigeria's pioneering makeup brand — cosmetics, skincare, and makeup artistry training since founding in Lagos.
Best for Nigerian cosmetics and professional makeup training
House of Tara is a pioneering African makeup brand based in Lagos, Nigeria, specializing in cosmetics and skincare products. The brand was founded to create high-quality makeup offerings tailored to diverse African skin tones and undertones. Beyond product retail, House of Tara extends its mission through makeup artistry training, empowering professionals and enthusiasts in Nigeria and across the African continent. The brand positions itself at the intersection of innovation, quality, and accessibility, serving as a touchstone for African beauty in a global marketplace. House of Tara's commitment to serving the African beauty market reflects both regional pride and a broader mission to elevate makeup artistry standards across the continent.
Lagos
IDEA Home Design runs showrooms across Lagos and in Abuja's Wuse II, bringing together furniture and lighting for the home. The company also carries Lagom, its own Swedish-design line, alongside other decor collections.
Best for Furniture and home decor shopping
Lagos, Nigeria
Ilekedi hand-strings waistbeads and matching anklets and bracelets in Lagos, reviving the Yoruba tradition of ilẹ̀kẹ̀ ìdí, once used to mark a girl's growth or a woman's marital status. The beads are sized to shift with the body, a property the brand markets as a natural way to track changes over time.
Best for Handcrafted Yoruba waistbeads
Lagos
Ilisabawn has made bespoke leather shoes in Lagos since 2018, cutting each pair to a customer's own measurements. The brand works full-grain leather using traditional shoemaking techniques paired with modern design.
Best for Bespoke handmade leather shoes to measure
Lagos
Jumoke Lagos designs each piece from sketch to 3D digital model before it reaches manufacture. The pieces are made in 18 karat gold set with gemstones, including earrings and bracelets.
Best for Fine gold jewelry and gemstone pieces
Lagos
Karats'N'Mor makes handmade jewelry from its base in Ojodu Berger, Lagos, with pieces built around personal occasions and relationships. The workshop also runs a basic metalsmith training course alongside its custom orders.
Best for Custom handmade jewelry and metalsmith training
Lagos
KL's Natural Beauty Bar sells natural hair-care products, including conditioners, shampoos, oils, edge control and ayurvedic herbs, and offers salon services such as deep conditioning, protective styles and bridal hair. Founded by Kemi Lewis, who the site says pioneered Nigeria's first natural hair salon, it now has three locations across Lagos: Dolphin Estate/Ikoyi, Lekki and Ogba.
Best for Natural hair care and salon styling
Ikoyi
ko is an art space in Ikoyi, Lagos, dedicated to modern and contemporary art. It has a dual focus, showing Nigeria's modern-period artists alongside emerging and established artists from Africa and its diaspora.
Best for Modern and contemporary African art
Lagos
Lagos jeweller offering bespoke fine jewellery, custom gold and silver pieces, jewellery repairs and same-day laser engraving.
Best for Custom engraved gold and silver jewellery
Lagos
Lami Fragrance sells fragrance and beauty products from stores in Lagos and Ibadan, with shipping across Nigeria and abroad. It sources its perfumes directly from manufacturers or their authorised distributors rather than resellers.
Best for Authentic perfumes and beauty products
Lagos
Home decor shop at 109 Funsho Williams Avenue, Iponri, Surulere, Lagos selling furniture, fragrance, lighting, kitchenware and bedding.
Best for Home decor, furniture and fragrance
Lagos
Legacy Perfume Stores describes itself as "a brand dedicated to being your guide as you start and scale your perfume business," aiming to become a leading perfume wholesale brand. It operates as a Health/Beauty page based in Lagos.
Best for Wholesale perfume supplies
Lagos, Nigeria
Lisa Folawiyo is known for taking Ankara wax-print cloth and hand-embellishing it with beads and sequins, a technique that turned everyday market fabric into runway-recognized couture. Her Lagos label is widely credited with shifting how Ankara is perceived in African luxury fashion.
Best for Hand-beaded Ankara couture
Lagos
LoshesChocolate is a bean-to-bar, single-origin chocolate maker operating in Lagos, sourcing its cocoa bean from Ile-Oluji and describing its bars as hand made with no additives. The range includes dark, milk, white and dark-milk bars, customized bars, cocoa powder, and 8- and 12-piece gift boxes.
Best for Single-origin bean-to-bar chocolate
Lekki, lagos / Nigeria
M.O.T (Mott the Label) is a Lagos-based, Black-owned womenswear brand selling vibrant ready-to-wear dresses, sets and jumpsuits designed for unconventional body types, from its address on Hon E. Adedeji Street in Lekki. The brand offers express delivery within Lagos and ships worldwide, including a dedicated US collection.
Best for Ready-to-wear womenswear, African fashion
Ikoyi, Lagos
MBN operates as a marketplace platform under the tagline "Made by Nigerians - For The World," with locations at Lennox Mall in Lekki Phase 1 and at 37 Ribadu Road in Ikoyi, Lagos. Its site also lists an AI Designer tool, funding resources, business education programs (Business Now, Making It, Academy) and gifting services under the MBN platform.
Best for Nigerian-made goods marketplace
Lagos
Mina Stones was founded by Amina Egwuatu and is headquartered in Abuja with a second base in Atlanta. The company oversees its own gemstone supply chain, hand-setting Nigerian and African stones into 18 karat gold.
Best for Fine gemstone jewelry sourced from Africa
Lagos / Nigeria
Mindville is an online bookstore with two pickup points in Lagos, at Ajegunle and Surulere. It ships business and self-help titles nationwide, describing its vision as giving the human mind free rein.
Best for Business and self-help books
Lagos
Nahous is a Lagos concept destination combining fashion, objects and cultural programming in one retail space. Its Instagram profile is the available first-party path for current designers, exhibitions and visiting details.
Best for Fashion, objects, and culture at this Lagos design destination
Lagos
Niche House Perfumery's own description, given in Turkish, translates to "niche perfumes and decants." No further detail appears on the page.
Best for Niche perfumes and decants
Lekki, Lagos
Nike Art Centre operates as Nike Art Gallery on Nike Art Gallery Road in Lekki, Lagos, with a $$ price range. It holds a 100% recommend rating from 868 Facebook reviews.
Best for Gallery art pieces
Ikoyi
A gallery in Lagos established in 1997 to promote African art, creativity and culture.
Best for African art and cultural exhibitions
Lagos
Nomadic Art Gallery sits on Adetokunbo Ademola Street in Victoria Island, Lagos, and describes its mission as championing African art. Entry to the gallery is free for everyone who visits its exhibitions.
Best for Free gallery shows of African art
Lagos
Shop at 27 Awoyokun Street, Onipanu, Lagos selling laptop bags, leather bags, backpacks and stationery items with same-day Lagos delivery.
Best for Laptop bags, leather bags and stationery
Lagos
A contemporary art gallery in Lagos established in 2020, specializing in art and design from across the African continent and its diaspora.
Best for Contemporary African art and design
Lagos
Lagos-based food vendor selling African foods and natural spices, NAFDAC approved, delivering across Nigeria and internationally.
Best for African foods and natural spices
Ikoyi
Ogirikan Art Gallery is an exhibition space on Raymond Njoku Street in Ikoyi, Lagos, showing handpicked work from established and emerging artists. It presents paintings and sculptures intended as a space for reflection on society and culture.
Best for Contemporary paintings and sculpture exhibitions
Ikoyi
An art gallery in Lagos representing established and emerging contemporary Nigerian and international artists working in diverse media.
Best for Contemporary Nigerian and international art
Lagos, Nigeria
Adebayo Oke-Lawal founded this Lagos label around 2010 after working for other Nigerian designers, building androgynous, print-driven clothing meant to be worn across genders. The brand describes its work as storytelling cut into fabric rather than seasonal commercial output.
Best for Androgynous ready-to-wear in Nigerian-inspired prints
Lagos
PITH Africa describes its work as making art through fashion and imagery inspired by Africa's evolving identity. The label says it builds value by using local resources to serve local communities and imagine new experiences.
Best for Africa-inspired fashion and imagery
Lagos
Polo Avenue sells designer fashion and accessories, including pieces from Gucci and Dolce and Gabbana. The retailer is currently rebuilding its online store and takes orders by phone and WhatsApp in the meantime.
Best for Designer fashion and accessories
Lagos
Pure Spirit Art Jewelry describes its products as unique handmade jewelry and artworks. It says the pieces are original, inspired by nature.
Best for Handmade nature inspired jewelry
Onikan
Rele Gallery shows contemporary work from artists across the African diaspora, with spaces in Lagos and abroad. Its Rele Arts Foundation runs a mentorship residency for early-career African artists, now in its eleventh edition.
Best for Contemporary art from African diaspora artists
Victoria Island / Surulere
Roving Heights is an independent Nigerian bookseller with Lagos shops in Victoria Island and Surulere. Its catalogue foregrounds writing from across Africa while also carrying a range of general titles.
Best for Nigerian independent bookstore with multiple Lagos locations
Lagos
Showgear sells musical instruments and audio equipment from its Onike, Yaba headquarters in Lagos, with a second outlet in Abuja. Beyond retail sales, it also provides event production and equipment repairs for musicians and venues.
Best for Musical instruments and audio equipment
Lagos
Contemporary art gallery presenting exhibitions, art fairs and a viewing room, currently showing Pure Water by Chika Idu.
Best for Art exhibitions, fairs and viewing room
Isolo, lagos / Nigeria
Styles By Berachah is a female-owned ready-to-wear label based in Ajao Estate, Isolo, with a storefront on Muritala Muhammad Airport Road and a direct online shop that ships worldwide. Founded by Ibukun, the brand specializes in bubu dresses, Ankara sets and Aso Oke-trimmed pieces made from premium fabrics.
Best for Ready-to-wear, ankara, bubu dresses
Lagos
Adetayo Adeyeye founded Taryor Gabriels in 2013, opening stores in Lagos and Texas for bespoke menswear. The house combines Savile Row tailoring traditions with African design elements in its suits and traditional wear.
Best for Bespoke menswear and traditional tailoring
Victoria Island
A bookstore within Lagos’s independent arts and culture centre. The opened Nigerian bookstore directory gives its Lagos address.
Best for Books inside Lagos's independent arts and culture centre
Surulere, Lagos
The Bag Shop Lagos says it stocks "the finest handbags, carriers, purses and portmanteaus," operating from Shop B42, AOS Mall, Surulere.
Best for Handbags and purses
Lagos
Vintage and ready-to-wear clothing seller in Nigeria, offering handpicked outfits for wholesale and retail customers.
Best for Vintage and ready-to-wear clothing
Lagos
Thrift Genius is a Lagos-based secondhand clothing shop that refreshes its stock with new arrivals every Sunday. Each piece is hand-picked and quality-checked before it goes on sale, with nationwide shipping across Nigeria.
Best for Secondhand and vintage clothing
Lagos
Interior decor shop in Lagos selling home and office accessories and ornaments, with nationwide delivery.
Best for Interior decor and home accessories
Lagos
Furniture retailer based in Lagos, Nigeria, whose site describes its offering as quality furniture designs.
Best for Quality furniture designs in Lagos
Lagos
WallArt Nigeria is a digital image reproduction company based on Popoola Banjoko Street in Gbagada, Lagos. Its production team, drawn from brand design and interior design backgrounds, prints and mounts photographic wall coverings in-house.
Best for Large format printing and framing
Lagos
A music store in Lagos selling musical instruments, with a professional recording studio and live sound rig.
Best for Musical instruments and studio equipment
Lagos
Online shop selling traditional zobo hibiscus tea in ginger, pineapple and spiced flavors, plus gift sets.
Best for Hibiscus zobo tea and gift sets
Ikeja
Page Bookstore is a current Lagos bookseller on Allen Avenue with an active online catalogue. The shop carries general reading and provides a verified physical door beyond the website.
Best for Books and reading in Ikeja
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Temple Muse is at 2 Musa Yar’Adua Street on Victoria Island.S1 Zashadu, which makes handbags and clothing, says on its own visit page that it is currently in residence at Eko Hotel & Suites, so read that page before you go.S2 Patabah Books is a bookshop at B18 Adeniran Ogunsanya Shopping Mall in Surulere.S3
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