Close-up of cool steel-grey suede fabric with subtle mottled nap

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Kirkby Design

Dakota Suede Steel

Name: Dakota Suede Steel
Brand: Kirkby Design

Dakota Suede Steel is a deep, cool grey upholstery fabric with a softly brushed, suede-like appearance. Its quiet surface has subtle tonal variation rather than a visible pattern.

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About this fabric

The Steel colourway reads as a muted charcoal grey with a cool cast, giving the swatch a calm, grounded presence. A fine, low-contrast mottling is visible across the surface, adding depth without introducing a defined motif. The brushed texture catches the light gently, creating slightly lighter and darker areas within the otherwise plain finish. No performance features or further specification data were supplied for this fabric.

How to use it

Use this cool steel-grey shade on a sofa, armchair or upholstered headboard where its softly tactile surface can add depth without competing with stronger colours. Pair it with pale stone, crisp white or blue-grey accents for a restrained contemporary scheme.

A cool steel-grey suede effect that brings understated depth to contemporary upholstered seating.

Kirkby Design Dakota Suede Fabric

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Pairs well with

Dakota Suede Steel 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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Farrow & Ball · #616566

To stand against it

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