A Games Room in Mohair: Warmth and Craft in the Home Counties

The architecture speaks first: an Arts and Crafts dairy in the Home Counties, its bones and character preserved through a thoughtful transformation by interior designer Sarah Peake. Where cream once cooled in earthenware vessels, a games room now emerges, lined in honey coloured wood that catches the light like cognac in a crystal glass.

The sofa, bespoke and commanding, floats beneath an abstract canvas of cream, ochre, charcoal and red. It is dressed in Pierre Frey’s Teddy mohair, a velvet that calls to something childlike in its plush density. Made from 65 per cent mohair and 35 per cent cotton, woven at 141 centimetres across, the fabric carries the weight of craft: each brushed fibre holds light differently, creating a surface that shifts between matte and lustre as you move through the room. The sofa sits on a stone coloured rug, anchoring the space, while beside it a round occasional table in striped wood holds the small treasures a room needs, green glass, magazines, the everyday objects of a life well lived.

The colour in this sofa appears to be one from the Teddy range’s warm palette: perhaps Miel, Taupe or Moutarde, though Pierre Frey offers the fabric in cooler notes too, from Ivoire to Ciel. Each carries the same durability, rated for Martindale 85,000 T, meaning it will age into softness rather than wear into exhaustion. Lamps stationed either side of the sofa cast pools of amber light, and the room breathes with the quiet satisfaction of a space designed by someone who understands how materials, colour and proportion live together.

The mohair works here because it accepts the generous proportions of the room, its warmth echoing the wood above and the walls beyond, creating a continuum of comfort rather than contrast. This is not fabric as an afterthought, but as the heart of the room’s conversation.

Imagery courtesy of La Maison Pierre Frey (@lamaisonpierrefrey).