White Mizzle/Wimborne White Mole's Breath / Ammonite Mouse's Back/Off-White N. Ammonite comes from the Easy Neutrals group, which also features Cornforth White, Purbeck Stone and Wevet. Transform your home with paint & paper Farrow & Ball, Joa Studholme. One of the easiest ways to start a scheme is with one of our neutral groups. This HEX color is commonly associated with Farrow and ball colors, especially Farrow and ball colours collection. This resemblance is what gives ammonites the name we still use today. It’s these stones from which our own Ammonite takes its name and its versatile shade of light grey.įun fact: when Pliny the Elder first came across these fossilised creatures, he called them ammonis cornua (“horns of Ammon”) for their resemblance to the ram’s horns the Egyptian god Ammon was often depicted wearing. Used throughout the house for ceilings and walls, Estate emulsion defines the Farrow and Ball look, a chalky mattness combined with great depth. It has a fantastically understated quality, and. Today, imprints of their shells are found in the sun-baked stones and cliffs of sites like Kimmeridge Bay. Ammonite is named after the treasured fossils often found on the Dorset coast.
A high quality matt emulsion designed for use throughout the house on ceilings and walls.
The original ammonites were marine molluscs who roamed the seas from the Devonian period until a mass extinction some 66 million years ago. A sample pot of paint, in Estate Emulsion finish. Their fossils are a common sight along this stretch of coastline, which runs 95 miles from just south of Farrow & Ball HQ to Exmouth in Devon (and is also home to the namesake of Lulworth Blue!) To anyone who’s spent time on the Jurassic Coast, the distinctive swirl of the ammonite will be a familiar acquaintance. Walls: Ammonite No.274 et Cornforth White No.228