Taupe-brown woven cloth with fine dark vertical lines gathered into soft folds

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Warwick

Smythson Imperial

Name: Smythson Imperial
Brand: Warwick

Smythson Imperial appears in a warm cocoa-taupe shade, with fine darker lines tracing a subtle, irregular linear pattern across the cloth. The fabric gathers into soft, weighty folds, revealing a gently textured, matte surface.

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About this fabric

The colour sits between softened brown and warm taupe, giving the design a grounded depth rather than a sharp or high-contrast finish. Fine charcoal-brown lines form an understated broken grid, becoming more visible where the cloth curves and catches the light. The woven surface has a dry, lightly napped appearance, while the folds show enough body for the pattern to shift naturally across the face. No performance features are noted in the supplied specification for this fabric.

How to use it

Pair this cocoa-taupe colourway with warm ivory, smoked timber and aged bronze for a calm, tailored interior. Its muted depth also works well against pale stone or soft chalk walls, where the fine linear pattern can remain subtle.

Use this warm cocoa-taupe colourway to bring quiet depth to seating, cushions or softly gathered curtains.

Warwick Smythson Fabric

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Smythson Imperial 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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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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