Grey Red Garden Table Runner

Some motifs look like a garden laid across the fabric. This table runner grey and red is one of them: a lush, joyful mass of red flowers set on a soft grey ground that shows them off without ever dimming them.

Like every piece in the collection, it is hand block-printed on good-quality cotton, in the artisan workshops of our partners in India, where block printing is a craft handed down through generations. The gesture leaves its mark, those small variations from one impression to the next that give the fabric its breath. The Garden design is created in France, in a balance between the exuberance of the flowers and the calm of the grey.

Laid on bare wood, this runner brings colour and life to the timber while leaving it visible at either side. Over a white or natural tablecloth, it adds a strong band down the centre and structures the whole setting. It is often enough on its own to wake up a rather neutral dining room.

This table runner grey and red is made for real use. The cotton is hard-wearing and machine washable, it grows softer with time while keeping its colour, and it takes long dinners, birthdays and family meals in its stride. Washed at thirty degrees and ironed while still slightly damp, it keeps its shape and its brightness.

It works with plain tableware as happily as with an already colourful interior. You can pair it with the matching Garden napkins and tablecloth to compose the whole table around one motif.

Left alone on a wooden table, it carries the whole setting without any help.

An artisanal, generous and hard-wearing piece of table linen, for anyone who likes tables that look like a garden in full bloom.