ColorTherapy: Silver Fox 2108-50

Name: Silver Fox 2108-50
Brand: Benjamin Moore

Close friends of mine have a brownstone in Brooklyn, which will provide me with at least six columns over the next few months because it's so interesting. They are both artists unafraid to be decoratively daring, and have invested every room in the house with a unique color...

The overall palette of their home reminds me of that in The Winslow Boy.

Silver Fox is one of those wet cement colors that looks like a warm grey on the wall, but comes off of a brown page in a fan deck. A breathtaking Italian gilt-framed mirror hangs over the fireplace, and the warm base of this color picks up on the red in the gold. Although the decor of this room has changed over the years, this color always brings everything into balance, and across a variety of styles: moderne, Mediterranean, contemporary as well as the artists own work.

Just as the name implies, Silver Fox is a quiet classic.

- Mark Chamberlain, interior and decorative painter

(ReEdited from 2006-09-19 - MGR)

Comments (9)

I think this may be the grey I've been looking for

"Talking about color , I am looking for a blue that resembles cobalt blue - but behr or glidden at home depot does not have it. Basically I am looking that will make one feel that you are on the beach - that bright blue sky. My other colors are brown, yellow, olive green couch, splashes of red and orange.

Please help because I feel helpless"

Cobalt blue and Sky blue are completely different.

Try Benjamin Moore Cayman Blue or Costa Rica Blue.
http://www.benjaminmoore.com/bmpsweb/portals/bmps.portal?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=contentrenderer_1_2&contentrenderer_1_2_actionOverride=%2Fbm%2Fcms%2FContentRenderer%2FrenderContent&contentrenderer_1_2WT.svl=2&contentrenderer_1_2currentNodeUUID=%2FBEA Repository%2F5610&contentrenderer_1_2NodeUUID=%2FBEA Repository%2F284002&_pageLabel=fh_explorecolor

I'm the only crazed responder so far, but I cannot STAND it that a Color Therapy post has ONE PICTURE!

Mark, if you mention how beautifully the Italian gilt-framed mirror looks in the very same room, please show it!

I am having a fit.

Pleeeeeease fix the link to "All ColorTherapy Posts"! And bring back the new ColorTherapies--I love seeing these oldies, but crave new posts.

The yellow/orange chair-- I have two of those in grass green that I picked up at a yard sale. Anyone know if they have a name?

I painted my living room and guest room Silver Fox last summer and LOVE it. It definitely changes even more than most colors with the light, taking on more taupe or lavender tones during certain times of day. There are a quite a few photos of the rooms in my flickr set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katef/sets/72157600890878260/

We just painted our dining room Silver Fox and I love it.

I never would have recognized it from this picture, though! In our dining room it looks much darker and more purple-brown.

It does change with the light, but in our dining room it never looks as light or as blue/green-gray as it does in this picture.

I painted my bedroom with Silver Fox several months ago. The photo you use does not reflect the extraordinary complexity of this color. I have two windows and several nooks and crannies in my room and this color changes everywhere all day and night. I love it. I use mostly white accents in trim, frames, lamps, etc. with the recycled douglas fir bed from Viva Terra, small accents of light limey-yellow and turquoise.