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Settled, side by side

Savage Ground

Farrow & Ball · No. 213

Beige, but happy about it

Costes

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

Plaster the color of a sunset in Marrakech

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Hex
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213 · 197 · 169
RGB
176 · 122 · 98
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Undertone
Dusty rose-terracotta; clay with a pink heart
Neutrals
Family
Oranges
Archive Collection
Collection
Roman Clay

In real rooms

Every room, each color

Savage Ground

2 rooms
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
Savage GroundF&B No. 213
All 2 rooms

Costes

1 room
CostesPortola Roman Clay
All 1 room

The difference

Read from the numbers

Both read warm. Savage Ground is a neutrals, Costes a oranges.

How they read

In their own words

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.

Costes is a Portola Roman Clay — a hand-applied plaster finish rather than a paint — in a dusty rose-terracotta. Because Roman Clay is troweled on, the color is never flat: it moves between pale pink and deep clay across a single wall, and the surface has a soft, suede-like depth that photographs like stone.

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