Simon Houlding Upholstery
Deep espresso-brown textile with smoky mottling and a softly lustrous surface

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Allure Espresso

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Allure Espresso is a richly dark textile with a smoky, uneven surface that shifts between warm brown and near-black in the light. Its softly reflective texture gives the colour considerable depth without introducing a visible motif.

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About this fabric

The fabric appears in a deep espresso brown, with cloudy tonal variation and fine horizontal and vertical texture visible across the swatch. Lighter flecks catch across the surface, preventing the dark shade from reading as flat or solid. At 518gsm and 140cm usable width, it has the substantial presence expected of a fabric for upholstered furniture. The vertical and horizontal pattern repeats are both 0cm, so the surface can be handled without matching a recurring design.

How to use it

Use Allure Espresso on a statement sofa, headboard or occasional chair where its near-black brown depth can anchor a room. Pair it with warm timber, aged brass and soft cream upholstery accents to draw out the warmer highlights in its textured surface.

Use this deep espresso shade to bring weight, softness and low-lit sophistication to upholstered seating.

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Pairs well with

Allure Espresso is a quiet cloth, so it carries a pattern beside it: one of these on the curtains and this on the chair. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

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Paint that goes with it

Two ways to take the room. Both colours are from houses we hold, so a pot can come off the same order as the cloth. Screens shift colour, so treat these as a direction and bring the cloth to the shelf before you buy the paint.

To sit quietly behind it

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To stand against it

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