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Settled, side by side

Lamp Room Gray

Farrow & Ball · No. 88

Savage Ground

Farrow & Ball · No. 213

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Hex
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177 · 177 · 170
RGB
213 · 197 · 169
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Lamp Room Gray is cool; Savage Ground is warm.
Traditional blue-grey, softened; the lived-in grey of lamp rooms
Undertone
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Gray
Family
Beige
Colour Card
Collection
Archive Collection

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Lamp Room Gray leans cool where Savage Ground reads warm. Lamp Room Gray is a gray, Savage Ground a beige.

How they read

In their own words

Lamp Room Gray is what Farrow & Ball calls its 'most traditional blue grey' — a mid-light grey with a soft blue cast that feels older and more settled than a modern cool grey. It takes its name from the rooms where oil lamps were once trimmed and stored.

Savage Ground is a warm, sandy beige from Farrow & Ball's archive — a yellow-leaning neutral that reads as sunlit rather than safe. It is the color of a stone floor in a Provençal kitchen, and it makes a room feel warmer without asking anyone to notice why.

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