Rare green tsavorite gemstone

Satao Color · Nairobi

Exceptional colored
gemstones from East Africa.

Rare and distinctive gemstones sourced through trusted relationships across East Africa — for jewelers, collectors, and designers worldwide.

Our Practice

A quiet house for the world's most distinctive colored stones — tsavorite, tanzanite, sapphire, spinel, sourced directly from the mines of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.

Selected Pieces

Featured this month

Elephant on the Amboseli plains with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background

Origin

Named for the legendary tuskers of Tsavo.

Satao Color is rooted in the landscape that produced some of the world's rarest gemstones. We work directly with miners and cutters we've known for years — trusted, transparent, and quietly proud of where every stone comes from.

The Collector's List

Rare inventory, delivered before it reaches the floor.

Quiet updates on new arrivals, parcel offerings, and collector-grade stones. No noise.