Simon Houlding Upholstery
Close-up of deep smoky grey fabric with a smooth, lustrous sheen and soft folds

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Fryett's Fabrics

Glamour Elephant

Glamour Fabric

Glamour Elephant reads as a deep smoky grey with a cool, reflective sheen and softly shifting highlights. The surface catches the light in broad, fluid folds, giving the fabric a polished, dramatic look.

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About this fabric

This colourway from Fryett's Fabrics has a smooth, lustrous finish that sits between charcoal and silver-grey, with darker troughs and brighter silvered highlights across the fold lines. The 100% polyester composition and 140cm width make it a practical cloth for a range of interior uses, while the 0cm pattern repeat keeps the look uninterrupted and clean. Visually, the fabric feels sleek and slightly moody rather than warm, with enough depth to read as sophisticated rather than flat. It would suit schemes that need a strong, contemporary grey with a softer sheen than a matte textile.

How to use it

Pair this smoky grey with blackened metal, pale stone, or crisp white for a sharp, modern contrast. It also works well in layered neutral rooms where the sheen can add movement without introducing colour.

Use for sleek upholstery or elegant curtains where a soft metallic sheen is wanted.

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A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Glamour Elephant 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

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To stand against it

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