The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Savage Ground
Farrow & Ball · No. 213
Beige, but happy about it
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
The Paris apartment white
#D5C5A9
Hex
#F4F0E7
213 · 197 · 169
RGB
244 · 240 · 231
Warm
Warmth
Warm
Warm sand with a little yellow; a beige with sunshine in it
Undertone
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Neutrals
Family
Whites
Archive Collection
Collection
Ressource Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersBoth read warm. Savage Ground is a neutrals, Le Cygne a whites.
How they read
In their own wordsSavage 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.
Le Cygne — the swan — is a warm, matte ivory from the French house Ressource. It has the chalky, light-absorbing quality of old lime plaster, which is why it looks so at home on Haussmann panelling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.