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08 Elephant
Renovare Fabric08
Renovare 08 Elephant is a deep, cool grey with a softly shifting surface visible across the folded swatch. Its restrained tone gives the fabric a quiet, tailored presence rather than a stark black appearance.
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About this fabric
The close-up shows a fine woven texture with subtle tonal variation, moving from charcoal-grey shadow to softer graphite where the surface catches the light. There is no printed motif; the interest comes from the understated weave and the way the cloth forms gentle folds. This is catalogued as a fabric, and no performance features are noted in the supplied specification. The balanced weight visible here makes the colourway suitable for upholstery or drapery, particularly where a deep neutral with tactile depth is wanted.
How to use it
Pair this cool elephant grey with chalky whites, pale oak and brushed metal for a calm contemporary scheme, or layer it with charcoal and softened blue-grey for greater depth. On upholstery it will read grounded and architectural; in drapery, the folds reveal its lighter graphite highlights.
Use this deep, cool grey as a refined neutral on upholstery or softly gathered drapery.
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Pairs well with
08 Elephant 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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Eclectic
Urbane Elephant
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Belvoir Collection
Cove Haze
Belvoir Collection
Rosee Du Matin Roseau
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Pergola Shades Crepuscule
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Sicily Outdoor Grey
Alfresco Indoor Outdoor Fabric
Cameron Ebony
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Albeck Silver
Albeck
Birch Stripe Silver
Ashmead Block Prints
Ciottoli Platinum
Boratti WALLPAPER
Brera Striato Aqua
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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
Victorian Purple
Zoffany · #5a595f
To stand against it
Westminster
Sanderson · #c5beae
Other grey fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 8,056.
