We are introducers, not dealers. When a client wants to buy — a name they have followed for years or a wall that needs the right thing — we open the door to the specialist who actually holds the relationship: the gallerist, dealer or advisor we know personally and would buy from ourselves. From there the specialist runs everything a regulated art transaction requires — provenance, condition, paperwork, identity and source-of-funds checks — and the sale is between you and them. We never hold the work, never touch the money, and our introduction fee is paid by the specialist and disclosed to you. If nobody in our network is right for the brief, we say so.
Contemporary African art
Our closest relationships are in the market the big houses came to late: Lagos, Accra, Dakar, Cape Town and the diaspora studios in London and Lisbon. For collectors who want in early on the most consequential contemporary scene of the last decade — and for Nigerian collectors bringing work home — we know exactly whose door to knock on, and we can usually get it opened the same week.
Fairs & access
Basel, Miami, Frieze, 1-54 and Art X Lagos: previews, guided walk-throughs with people who know the booths, and the dinners around them. We already run Art Basel week end to end — flights, suites, tables and the fair itself as one itinerary. The concierge side of art is entirely ours; the transacting side belongs to the specialists.
Around the work
The same introduction principle covers everything after the purchase: conservators, framers, fine-art shippers, insurers and installers — vetted, introduced, and the logistics of moving a work between homes folded into the concierge like any other booking.
From the studio
OF.luxury is founded by a working artist. A small number of original works are available directly from the studio from time to time — sold simply, artist to collector, no intermediary at all. If that interests you, ask the desk.