{"product_id":"cole-and-son-st-petersburg-damask","title":"Cole \u0026 Son | St Petersburg Damask","description":"\u003cp\u003eSt Petersburg Damask is taken from an early twentieth-century fabric, and the redrawing preserves what makes such damasks work: the figure is open rather than solid, so the pattern is described by its outline and by the ground showing through it. At this scale that openness is what keeps a formal design from becoming heavy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath the damask runs a jaspe stripe, the fine vertical striation from the oldest of the house textures, and it does a great deal. The stripe gives the ground a woven quality and a subtle vertical lift, so the paper reads as silk-backed rather than as a print on a flat field, and the damask appears to float slightly clear of it. Two archive devices are therefore working at once, a damask and a texture, and neither is asked to carry the wall alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach palette works one colour over a ground, from soft tonal pairings to sharp contrasts and one with a metallic pass, and the weight of the design changes accordingly. Formal rooms take it as intended: a dining room, a drawing room, a stair hall. It hangs comfortably behind gilt frames and against painted panelling, doing the job a silk once did. In a room with tall ceilings it is worth hanging full height rather than breaking it at a picture rail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cole \u0026 Son","offers":[{"title":"Metallic Gilver on Taupe","offer_id":57800255930750,"sku":"88\/8033","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Chalk on Safari","offer_id":57800255963518,"sku":"88\/8034","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red on Ink","offer_id":57800255996286,"sku":"88\/8035","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Parchment on White","offer_id":57800256029054,"sku":"88\/8036","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Sample - Metallic Gilver on Taupe","offer_id":57800256061822,"sku":"SAMPLE-88\/8033","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Sample - Chalk on Safari","offer_id":57800256094590,"sku":"SAMPLE-88\/8034","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Sample - Red on Ink","offer_id":57800256127358,"sku":"SAMPLE-88\/8035","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Sample - Parchment on White","offer_id":57800256160126,"sku":"SAMPLE-88\/8036","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/9880\/0766\/files\/PetersburgDamask_Image_Flatshot_Item_88-8033.jpg?v=1785945776","url":"https:\/\/shop.tobiasoliverinteriors.com\/products\/cole-and-son-st-petersburg-damask","provider":"Tobias Oliver","version":"1.0","type":"link"}