Stone shaped by
Africa's thunder
Every Series is imagined in Livingstone, Zambia, within sound of Mosi-oa-Tunya. Each piece is hand-carved over 4 to 6 weeks from rare fruit serpentine of the Zambezi basin, registered permanently on the blockchain and never made again once its Series sells out.
Inspired in Zambia. Created in Zimbabwe.
A Collection. Three galleries.
One piece — yours.
The year
Collection
One Collection released per year. 2027 is shown in three galleries: the Range, open to every collector; the Private Viewing, by request; and Commissions, by private arrangement.
The theme
Series
Each Series is a distinct sculptural form — The Baobab, Rhino Spirit, The Falls. Every Series opens with its story. Once its Editions are sold, a Series is closed forever.
Your number
Edition
73 numbered Editions per Series in the Range, one for each of the 73 languages of Zambia. Private Viewing Series stop at ten. You choose your number. Lower Editions command a premium.
Your sculpture
Piece
The physical object in your hands. Same form as its Series siblings — but carved from its own stone, so yours is unique. Numbered, signed, NFC-chipped, and permanently on the blockchain.
Three galleries. One river.
The Range
Fauna, Elements, Abstract, Flora and Spirit. Read each story, choose your Series and your Edition. Every Edition is carved from its own stone, so no two pieces are ever the same.
The Private Viewing
Mythical Zambezi and Traditional are never shown on the open site. Viewing is by application, so each piece goes to a home that will keep it as a family heirloom.
Commissions
One stone, chosen for one person and carved to their story by a master carver in Zimbabwe. For collectors, public figures and the people who represent them.
formation
River
height
width
per piece
A rare stone
from the Zambezi basin
Every piece is carved from fruit serpentine, a stone found around Kwekwe in Zimbabwe’s Midlands. It is prized for its warm banding of greens, golds and browns and for the soft glow it gives when light passes through it. Few sculptors work with it.
The rivers of Kwekwe run north to Lake Kariba and into the Zambezi, so this is a stone of the same great river basin as the Falls. Each block is chosen by hand for the Series it will become, and the carvers follow its banding rather than fight it.
The Smoke
That Thunders
"No one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England — scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels."
— David Livingstone, 1855
UNESCO World Heritage Site. One of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. 1,708 metres wide. 108 metres tall. At peak flood, 500 million litres of water per minute thunder into the Batoka Gorge. It is the Falls that give every Zambezi River Stone Series its spirit.
We could carve more.
We choose not to.
Every stone is chosen by hand and every piece is carved by hand. Our limits are our own, held in place because each piece takes 4 to 6 weeks of genuine hand-carving and because scarcity is what makes a collection worth collecting. Every Series has a fixed number of Editions, and no Series in the Private Viewing will ever exceed ten. When a Series is sold, it closes for good, by choice, not shortage.
by one master carver
piece size
released each year
Two nations,
one river
The Zambezi doesn’t belong to one country. It forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe and falls between them at Mosi-oa-Tunya. Zambezi River Stone works the same way: the heart and soul are Zambian, the hands are Zimbabwean and the river joins them.
Where every Series is conceived, named and given its story, and where each piece is registered and revealed
The Smoke that Thunders, shared by both nations and the spirit behind the collection
Where the fruit serpentine is found and every piece is carved by hand, within the Zambezi basin
Zambia is not the edge
of somewhere else.
It is the centre of its own story.
Most of the world meets Zambia as a day trip from someone else's holiday — a border crossing, a glimpse of the Falls, a stamp in a passport. We think that undersells a nation of more than seventy languages, a thousand-year royal village, a river god still spoken of with respect, and craftsmanship that deserves to sit in your home, not just in a curio stall. Every piece we make is a small, deliberate act of introduction — Zambia, properly met, one stone at a time.
A land held together
by story, not just borders
The First People of the Falls
Toka-Leya
Seven kilometres from Mosi-oa-Tunya stands Mukuni, a royal village founded in the 13th century and still ruled by Chief Mukuni. His people, the Toka-Leya, were the first to know the Falls — and the first to consider them sacred.
Guardian of the River
Nyami Nyami
The Tonga people speak of a serpent-spirit who lives within the Zambezi itself — protector, provider, and still invoked whenever the river runs wild. Our Mythical Zambezi Series is carved in quiet homage to that belief, and shown only in our Private Viewing.
Across the River
Zimbabwe’s carvers
Since the 1950s Zimbabwe has become one of the world’s great centres of stone sculpture. Every piece we make is carved within that tradition, from stone of the same river basin.
Beyond the Falls
The Real Africa
South Luangwa, birthplace of the walking safari. Kafue, one of Africa's largest parks. The Lower Zambezi, Lake Kariba, the Bangweulu wetlands. Zambia’s wild heart reaches far beyond the Falls that inspire every piece.
Zambia beyond the Falls: the wildlife, rivers and adventure that visitors come for.
Endorsed by the people
who know Zambia best
Zambezi River Stone is formally endorsed by Zambia's Ministry of Tourism. The collection will be revealed early next year at a ceremony in Livingstone, curated by the Ministry.
More than a purchase —
a promise
25% of every sale's net profit is returned to the communities of Livingstone and Victoria Falls — the water they drink, the schools their children attend, the healthcare they can reach. Livingstone sits on the Zambian bank and Victoria Falls town on the Zimbabwean, so the pledge reaches both sides of the river that gives us our name.
25% of net profit · clean water · food · education · healthcare
