1968

Family Workshop · Windhoek · Est. 1968

Furniture made
to outlive trends.

A small Windhoek workshop has been quietly building, upholstering, and restoring furniture for Namibian homes, lodges, and vehicles for over fifty-seven years. We make pieces that families pass down.

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The Lounger A Carlo Signature

The Lounger — Carlo Upholstery's signature tan leather form with hardwood splayed legs

01 The Carlo Story

A family workshop that has shaped Namibian interiors since 1968.

Carlo began as a single workbench, a roll of canvas, and a quiet promise: that furniture should be made carefully enough to outlast the people who bought it. Over five decades later, that promise still travels with every chair, sofa, and headrest we send out of our Windhoek workshop.

We are upholsterers, joiners, and pattern-makers. We build new pieces from sketches and conversation. We rescue old pieces from disrepair. And we are equally happy fitting out a lodge dining room or the interior of a Land Cruiser bound for the Zambezi.

Carlo Upholstery is a family business. The hands that cut the timber, stretch the fabric, and finish the seams are the same hands that answer the phone.

— The Carlo Family Windhoek
Since 1968

02 What We Make

Four disciplines, one workshop.

Custom Furniture

Sofas, chairs, ottomans, headboards, dining benches — designed and built to your room, your fabric, your life. Every piece begins as a conversation and a sketch.

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Reupholstery & Restoration

The chair your grandmother sat in. The lounge suite that has hosted twenty Christmases. We strip them back, re-frame, re-foam, and re-cover — giving them another lifetime.

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Automotive Upholstery

Car seats, headliners, door cards, marine and 4x4 interiors. From classic restorations to safari-fit Land Cruisers, we work in leather, vinyl, and heavy-duty canvas.

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Lodge & Hospitality

Outdoor furniture for the Namibian sun. Indoor pieces for the cool of the evening. Stoep installations, dining benches and matched lounge suites — built in the workshop, delivered as a set.

Installations

Carlo Upholstery outdoor patio installation — built-in bench seating and director's chairs around a brick fire pit

Beyond the Single Piece

Whole rooms. Whole spaces.

Some commissions are a single chair. Others are a stoep, a lapa, a restaurant dining room, or a lodge that needs furnishing from the ground up. We work with homeowners, lodge managers, interior designers and architects to deliver matched sets — built in the same workshop, by the same hands, to the same standard.

Each installation is sized, sketched, and quoted on its own terms. No two are exactly identical — which is rather the point.

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03 How We Work

Four steps, no shortcuts.

i. Conversation

We listen first.

You tell us about the piece — the one in your head, or the one in your sitting room. We ask questions, take measurements, and sometimes drink coffee.

ii. Selection

Fabric & frame.

We help you choose timber, foam, and fabric. We bring swatches. We give honest opinions about what will and won't survive Namibian summers.

iii. Workshop

Made by hand.

Cutting, joinery, padding, stitching, finishing — all done in our Windhoek workshop. We send progress photos for larger jobs.

iv. Delivery

Placed, not dumped.

We deliver carefully, position the piece in your space, and stand back with you to make sure it sits exactly where it should.

A Conversation Costs Nothing

Tell us about the piece you have in mind.

— or the one to be saved

Whether it's a brand new commission, a tired armchair that deserves another life, or twenty matching chairs for a lodge — we'd be glad to hear from you.

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Furniture made to outlive trends.