A passion for African culture and its artisanal products

A desire to help extraordinarily creative people

A gift of style and design

A love of one particular basket with one specific look

Handmade in South Africa

Suzanne & Zondi was founded after a chance encounter on the side of a dusty road, one South African summer.  Suzanne met two sisters from the Xhosa tribe, who along with their mother and four other women, hand weave one-of-a-kind baskets using natural materials and finished with a signature edge of thousands of colored beads.  Envisioning these exquisite baskets in various sizes and every imaginable color combination in homes across America, as well as wanting to support these talented women and their business, she founded Suzanne & Zondi.    

Every Suzanne & Zondi basket takes up to five days to complete and has been specially handwoven and beaded in sizes and colors according to Suzanne's specifications.  

Each basket is designed and created with LOVE and all that it entails: the magic, complications, challenges, beauty, soul fulfillment - never the same, and always worth it in the end.