Simon Houlding Upholstery
Close-up of small olive animal motif on a pale linen ground

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Colefax and Fowler

Livingstone Olive Green

Hailsham FabricF4868-01

Livingstone Olive Green shows a finely scaled animal-style repeat in soft olive and beige tones across a pale ground. The effect is quietly textural, with the pattern reading crisp at close range and gently mottled from a distance.

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About this fabric

This colourway uses a muted olive-green outline and fill against a warm off-white linen ground, giving the design a dry, understated finish rather than a bright contrast. The repeat is approximately V 24cm / H 67cm, which creates a rhythmic vertical movement through the small-scale motif. Woven in 100% linen and measuring approximately 134cm wide, it has the natural hand and relaxed character you would expect from linen while still presenting a neat, tailored surface. With no performance finish noted, it will suit interiors where the look of the cloth is the main focus and the pattern can be allowed to do the work.

How to use it

Use it on a small armchair, bench, or cushions where the olive pattern can add interest without overpowering a room. It pairs especially well with oak, brushed brass, and other soft neutrals that let the pale ground stay luminous.

A restrained olive spot that feels tailored and easy to live with.

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Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Livingstone Olive Green without fighting it. 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

Old White

Farrow & Ball · #c7bfac

To stand against it

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