Tapison Home Torino 063.0029.2293 Rug

A gradient is a difficult thing to get right. Too abrupt and it looks like a mistake, too even and it looks digital. This one gets it right by never quite finishing the transition. Deep smoky brown holds the top, then loosens, breaks up, and drifts down into oatmeal and pale sand, with faded patches surfacing along the way like an old fresco.

Look closely and the whole surface is built from fine horizontal striations, thousands of light and dark fibres sitting side by side. That is what gives it movement. The brown is never flat brown, it carries grey, taupe and the occasional glint of pale blue.

This is the piece for a room that already has enough going on. It sits beneath a patterned sofa, a gallery wall or a busy bookcase without adding another voice, and makes pale oak and cream upholstery look deliberately chosen rather than safe.

Woven in Belgium from 100 percent polyester. Vacuum regularly, blot spills at once with a clean cloth and lukewarm water, and turn the rug now and then. Darker gradients photograph flatter than they are.

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