Mottled charcoal-grey velvet with smoky tonal shading and a soft, light-catching surface

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Mark Alexander

Gramercy Metal

Name: Gramercy Metal
Brand: Mark Alexander

Gramercy Metal is a deep, cool grey velvet with a mineral, smoky character. Its softly mottled surface shifts between charcoal and lighter graphite tones across the swatch.

smoky charcoal grey plain none smart upholstery

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About this fabric

This colourway reads as a weathered charcoal rather than a uniform black, with cool grey depth throughout. Cloudy tonal variation gives the velvet surface a softly distressed appearance, while the light catches the texture in subtle, changing patches. It is catalogued as Velvet, and no performance features are noted in the supplied data. The understated surface has no distinct printed motif, allowing its depth of tone to provide the visual interest.

How to use it

Use this cool charcoal-grey on a sofa, armchair or headboard where its smoky variation can soften a dark scheme while retaining a smart, tailored feel.

Use this cool, smoky charcoal velvet to bring depth to sofas, armchairs or upholstered headboards without introducing a strong pattern.

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Pairs well with

Gramercy Metal 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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