Two grey Caterpillar fireside chairs seen from behind with a peach sherpa throw

Get the Look: Two Grey Caterpillar Chairs and a Record Collection

Most living rooms argue about one seat. This one has a second row: two grey Caterpillar chairs sitting low in the foreground, backs turned to us, while an ordinary grey sofa does the everyday work behind them. The whole layout reads like a listening room that happens to have people furniture in it.

The crates on the sideboard explain it. Records get pulled, sleeves come off, and the nearest low surface receives a listener — no ceremony. Rooms built around music tend to end up with furniture you can arrive at sideways.

Two grey Caterpillar fireside chairs seen from behind with a peach sherpa throw on the near one
Two grey Caterpillar chairs from behind, a folded sherpa throw on the near one.

Why the second row works

Grey on grey needs texture. The chairs' quilted channels sit a few feet from the sofa's flat weave — the same family of colour with a completely different surface. Nothing matches exactly, so nothing looks like it was bought as a set in one afternoon.

One warm accent is enough. The peach sherpa throw does quietly what the pink armchair and the yellow curtain do loudly: it keeps two levels of grey from blending into one. Folded rather than draped, it reads as used, not staged.

Low backs protect the sightline. From the sofa, the chairs stay below the sideboard and the shelf wall, so the room keeps its depth and the records stay in view.

Grey sofa with record crates, shelves and a yellow curtain in the same living room
What the chairs look towards: the sofa, the record crates and the shelf wall.

The throw is the detail worth copying. It sits on the near chair like a folded towel — within arm's reach of whoever lands there next. A listening room needs exactly one of these: something soft that never tries to match.

Peach sherpa throw folded on the quilted grey upholstery of a Caterpillar chair
Sherpa throw, folded once, kept where a listener lands.

Get the look

The low chairs in the photo are our Caterpillar single seater, and the grey itself runs across the range — Gray Suede on the Caterpillar 3 seater, with every shape and colour in the Caterpillar-style collection. Earlier this month we showed the same low shape in orange, across two real homes — grey is its quietest version.

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