Artisan Workshops

Terres Cuites Raujolles

30800 Saint-Gilles

Terres Cuites Raujolles is a French artisanal terracotta manufacturer founded in 1830 in southern France. It produces terracotta floor tiles, terracotta tiles, bricks, glazed roof tiles, ceramic tiles and bespoke pieces for architecture, interior design and heritage restoration. The company stands out for its traditional craftsmanship, hand-applied patinated finishes, material quality and expertise in renovation projects, historic buildings, old houses and contemporary interiors. Its products are used by architects, interior designers, craftsmen and private clients seeking authentic French terracotta.

81 €/m²

Terre Cuite des Mauges

49280 La Séguinière

Terre Cuite des Mauges is an artisanal brickyard based in Anjou, in western France. It produces terracotta tiles, bricks and other clay elements using traditional methods, working with local clay known for its natural appearance and durability. The company is distinguished by pieces with sandy tones, a lively texture and an authentic grain, suited to renovation, interior architecture and heritage restoration projects. Its craftsmanship follows the tradition of western France’s characterful terracotta materials.

52 €/m²

Terres Cuites d'Aizenay

85190 Aizenay

The last artisanal workshop in Vendée, this manufactory creates terracotta with unique flamed nuances, reflecting over 60 years of traditional firing expertise.

36.5 €/m²

Terres Cuites des Launes

83780 Flayosc

Terres Cuites des Launes are the guardians of ancestral manufacturing in the Haut-Var. Working with local clay to create warm and living floors, this workshop elevates the traditional Provençal tomette in all its forms.

Céramiques du Beaujolais

69400 Arnas

Céramiques du Beaujolais is an artisanal manufacture based in Arnas, in the heart of the Beaujolais region, specializing in terracotta tiles, glazed tiles and architectural faience. An Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant‑labelled workshop, it produces floor tiles, façade tiles, kitchen and bathroom tiles, as well as painted ceramic frescoes and heritage restoration elements. The workshop works with natural clays and traditional firing techniques, producing tiles with warm, flamed shades of beige, pink and red, suitable for both historic restorations and contemporary interiors.

64 €/m²

Carrelages Boutal

83690 Salernes

Carrelages Boutal is a terracotta tile manufacturer based in Salernes, the historic capital of Provençal ceramics. Founded in 1880, it is one of the last workshops continuing the local production of tomettes, bricks and glazed lava tiles from the region’s typical red clay. Its products, with raw, flamed or smooth finishes, are used for interior floors, terraces, façades and the restoration of mas residences, manor houses and heritage buildings, in France and abroad, providing materials that respect Provençal tradition and Mediterranean architecture.

Cerámica Ferrés

17121 Corçà

Cerámica Ferrés is an artisanal ceramic factory based in La Bisbal d’Empordà, Catalonia, active since the 19th century. Renowned in the La Bisbal region, it produces terracotta tiles, decorative claustras and tomettes with an antique look, suited to rustic‑chic Mediterranean style. Its Antica collection features sober, warm flooring with naturally irregular surfaces and warm tones, ideal for restaurants, villas, country houses and renovation projects.

Cotto Etrusco

06014 Montone PG

Cotto Etrusco is an artisanal terracotta manufacturer based in Umbria, Italy, specializing in handmade‑style floor and wall tiles. Born from the revival of an ancient kiln using sedimentary clay of Etruscan origin, the brand combines millennia‑old techniques with contemporary design collections. It offers natural, oxidized and glazed surfaces, made from hand‑worked clays fired with wood or solar energy, using environmentally friendly processes suitable for both interior and exterior floors and walls in heritage renovations, hotels, villas and high‑end buildings.

La Compagnie de la Terre Cuite

34000 Montpellier

La Compagnie de la Terre Cuite is an artisanal terracotta manufacturer based in the Occitanie region of France. It produces tomettes, tiles, brick tiles, coping stones, stair nosings and skirting, all made from natural clays using handcrafted techniques. Its frost‑resistant, durable and breathable tiles are suitable for indoor and outdoor floors, terraces and pool surrounds, starting from 28 €/m² delivered, in smooth, rustic or extra‑smooth finishes and pink or red shades for both traditional restorations and contemporary houses.

Gillaizeau

85670 Saint-Christophe-du-Ligneron

Gillaizeau is an artisanal brickyard located in Vendée, active since the 19th century. Specializing in tomettes and clinker bricks, the company uses locally extracted clays to produce durable, frost‑resistant tiles suited to long‑term use. Its tiles, in shades from deep red to light ochre, are used for interior and outdoor floors, façades and walls, in old houses, renovations and contemporary projects that value authentic materials.

Maison Josse

35250 Saint-Germain-sur-Ille

Maison Josse is an artisanal ceramics workshop based in Brittany, dedicated to hand‑molded terracotta. The studio produces tomettes, floor and wall tiles, bricks and decorative elements, each shaped by the artisan and fired to reveal vivid, strong colors. Its pieces are suited to renovation projects, character houses and interior spaces that value materiality, tactile quality and the irregular look of handcrafted work, for unique, long‑lasting floors and walls.

Origines Carrelages

34170 Castelnau-le-Lez

Origines Carrelages is a sourcing and design studio focused on noble materials, specializing in artisanal terracotta and natural stone. It selects tiles and stratified materials suited to demanding architectural projects where materiality, texture and tonal harmony are central to the design. Origines collections highlight the natural tones of clay, raw and semi‑raw finishes, and patina and aging effects for contemporary floors, walls and façades rooted in artisanal tradition.

Sugaroni

05014 Castel Viscardo (TR)

Sugaroni is an artisanal terracotta manufacturer based in Castel Viscardo, Umbria, active since 1685. The Sugaroni family produces tomettes and terracotta tiles entirely hand‑formed from local clays, fired in wood‑burning kilns that create warm, natural shades. The company is known for floor and wall tiles used in the restoration of historic palaces, villas and high‑end residences, relying on a fully traditional, handcrafted production method.

Alteret Cerámicas

Valencia

Alteret Cerámicas is a Spanish manufacturer of artisanal ceramics and terracotta based in Villalonga, in the Valencia region. The company produces hand‑molded terracotta tiles in a range of formats, with natural tones and raw or slightly smoothed surfaces. Its products suit interior and exterior floors, façades and walls, combining traditional craftsmanship, durability and the requirements of contemporary architecture and heritage restoration.

Terres Cuites de Courboissy

89120 Charny Orée de Puisaye

Terres Cuites de Courboissy is a French artisanal factory based in Bourgogne‑Franche‑Comté, specializing in traditional terracotta. It produces tomettes, floor and wall tiles, brick tiles and decorative elements for indoor and outdoor use, including terraces and façades. The workshop uses local clays and artisanal processes, with tailored firings to produce frost‑resistant, breathable tiles suited to the restoration of old houses and contemporary architecture focused on character materials.

Enrico Palmucci

05014 Castel Viscardo (TR)

Enrico Palmucci is an Italian artisanal terracotta producer based in Castel Viscardo, Umbria. The company specializes in handmade cotto for antique restoration, with shaded finishes, warm tones and natural irregularities close to historic tiles. It supplies tomettes and floor and wall tiles for heritage renovations, villas and historic buildings, relying on traditional manufacturing methods and a focus on material authenticity over industrial standardization.

Maestri Del Cotto

27 Loc.Ponticelli 06062 Citta' della Pieve (PG)

Maestri Del Cotto is an Italian handmade cotto manufacturer based near Città della Pieve, Umbria. The company produces tomettes, floor and wall tiles and decorative terracotta elements, with a wide range of historical formats, natural tones and shaded patinas. Its collections target heritage restoration projects, villas and high‑end buildings, where materiality, the irregularities of handcraft and the durability of cotto are central to the choice of finishes.

Cotto del Perugino

06061 Panicarola PG

Cotto del Perugino is an artisanal terracotta manufacturer founded over 30 years ago, located in Panicarola, Umbria, on the shores of Lake Trasimeno. Tiles are hand-shaped and kiln-fired in a wood-burning kiln for 5 days at 1,070 °C, giving them warm tones and the natural irregularities of authentic terracotta. The range covers classic formats — square, pianella, hexagonal, losanga, octagonal — in dozens of size variants, all fully customisable. Collections suit exterior floors, interior floors, and renovation or high-end architectural projects alike.

L'Arte Del Cotto Di Bartoccini Federico

05014 Castel Viscardo TR

L'Arte Del Cotto by Federico Bartoccini is an artisanal terracotta kiln located in Castel Viscardo, Umbria, specialized in handmade cotto. The company produces tomettes, floor and wall tiles, bricks and façade elements from local clays and wood‑fired kilns, with shaded, antique‑style finishes. Its products are mainly intended for historic restorations, palaces, villas and exceptional buildings, where materiality, the irregularities of handcraft and the durability of cotto are central to the architectural execution.

Cotto Antiqua

LOCALITÀ ALFINA 05014 TRATTOIO TR

Cotto Antiqua is a handmade terracotta manufacturer based in Umbria, specialized in bricks and rectangular tiles with aged finishes. The company produces tomettes, facade planks, decorative elements and cladding pieces, with patinated tones and irregular surfaces close to antique originals. Its products serve restoration projects for historic buildings, old houses and rustic‑ or classic‑style spaces, where materiality, visual age and the warmth of terracotta are as important as architectural style.

Fornace Cotto Umbro - L'Arte del Mattone

06062 Ponticelli PG

Fornace Cotto Umbro – L’Arte del Mattone is an Umbrian kiln renowned for producing bricks and other terracotta elements for construction and façade decoration. The company emphasizes artisanal processes, local clays and high‑quality finishes suited to heritage restoration and new buildings inspired by traditional architecture. Its products include facing bricks, wall elements, skirtings and decorative pieces, used to regenerate or clad walls of historic buildings, old houses and contemporary constructions committed to a strong material identity.

Cotto fatto a mano Fornace Stefani

05014 Castel Viscardo TR

Fornace Stefani is a handmade terracotta factory based in Castel Viscardo, Umbria. The company works local clays in traditional kilns, producing tomettes, floor tiles and façade elements with natural tonal variations and visible hand‑crafted irregularities. Its products, frost‑resistant and durable, suit indoor and outdoor floors, terraces and façades for historic buildings, villas and character houses that favor an authentic, long‑lasting aesthetic.

Todobarro

29001 Málaga

Todobarro is an artisanal terracotta tile producer based in Málaga, Andalusia. Specialising in traditional handcrafted terracotta flooring, high-temperature glazed tiles, zellige and bespoke architectural panels, it combines ancestral craftsmanship with custom development capabilities for residential and commercial projects.

39 €/m²

Fer & Pierre

31530 Bretx

Fer & Pierre is a French reseller and workshop specializing in antique building materials, handmade terracotta tiles, reclaimed stone, and heritage-style flooring. Based in Bretx, the company offers terracotta re-editions, old materials, and decorative surfaces for renovation, terraces, and traditional interiors.

44 €/m²

Les Rustiers

13120 Gardanne

A Gardanne workshop making both halves of the same room: handmade terracotta floor tiles — the Rustier rosé, the Florence, the Vésuve — and the mineral render that goes up the walls above them. The Rustier render comes by use (wall, floor, indoors, out) and by finish: textured with vermiculite, or laid smooth to the look of a tadelakt under the name Le Micro. Some thirty shades on the colour card, natural colourants, and prices you have to ask for — the house does not publish them.

La Passion du Maroc

42000 Saint-Étienne

La Passion du Maroc is a French producer of handmade Moroccan-inspired tiles, including zellige, bejmat, and decorative terracotta surfaces. The brand creates custom colors and authentic finishes for kitchens, bathrooms, walls, and interior design projects.

Terre de Zellige

84300 Cavaillon

Terre de Zellige is a French reseller of Moroccan zellige tiles, bejmat, and handmade decorative surfaces. Based in Cavaillon, the company supplies authentic wall and floor tiles for kitchens, bathrooms, renovation projects, and custom interiors.

Maison Bahya

75017 Paris

Maison Bahya is a French producer of handmade cement tiles and decorative wall and floor surfaces. The brand offers custom designs, historic pattern reissues, and made-to-order collections for residential interiors and renovation projects.

Mosaic Factory

75014 Paris

Mosaic Factory is a French producer and supplier of handmade tiles, zellige, terrazzo, and cement tiles. The company offers a wide choice of formats, colors, and custom finishes for homes, hospitality spaces, and interior design projects.

Les Ateliers Zelij

31000 Toulouse

Les Ateliers Zelij is a French producer specializing in handmade zellige tiles and Moroccan-inspired ceramic surfaces. Based in Toulouse, the workshop creates authentic textures, traditional finishes, and custom colors for interior design and renovation.

Maison Zellige

75015 Paris

Maison Zellige is a French reseller of handmade Moroccan zellige and bejmat tiles. Based in Paris, the company supplies authentic wall and floor coverings for bathrooms, kitchens, and custom interior projects.

RO'MA Nature

89000 Auxerre

RO'MA Nature is a French reseller of natural stone, terracotta, and traditional surface materials for building and renovation. Based in Auxerre, the company supplies flooring, wall cladding, and outdoor materials for heritage and contemporary projects.

Otto Tiles

London E8 4RH

Otto Tiles is a UK-based producer of handmade tiles, including zellige-inspired surfaces, terracotta, and decorative ceramic collections. The brand is focused on color, texture, and artisanal finishes for interior design and renovation projects.

Marrakech Déco

34590

Marrakech Déco is a French reseller specializing in Moroccan decorative materials, including zellige, bejmat, and handmade tile collections. The company supplies products for kitchens, bathrooms, walls, and custom interior design projects.

Ligerio

37600 Loches

Ligerio is a French reseller of natural building materials, including terracotta, stone, and traditional tiles. Based in Loches, the company supports renovation, landscaping, and heritage-style construction projects.

Piquet Carrelage

13016 Marseille

Piquet Carrelage is a French tile reseller based in Marseille, offering terracotta, ceramic, and decorative flooring materials. The company serves residential renovation projects and interior design applications.

Carrelage de la Tour

Hérault

Carrelage de la Tour is a French reseller of terracotta, ceramic, and decorative tile collections based in Hérault. The company supplies materials for renovation, interior spaces, and traditional-style projects.

Éditions Vétiver

33800 Bordeaux

Éditions Vétiver is a French reseller of decorative tiles and surface materials based in Bordeaux. The company focuses on curated collections for interior design, renovation, and refined residential spaces.

Villa Lagoon Tile

Alabama

Villa Lagoon Tile is a U.S.-based reseller of handmade cement tiles, zellige, and decorative flooring. The company offers custom colors and traditional-inspired patterns for residential and hospitality projects.

LiLi Tile

California

LiLi Tile is a U.S.-based reseller of handcrafted tiles, specializing in zellige, cement tile, and decorative surface collections. The company provides products for kitchens, bathrooms, feature walls, and interior design projects.

Mercadier

13290 Aix-en-Provence

Mercadier manufactures mineral decorative finishes in Aix-en-Provence: trowelled béton ciré systems (EBC, PMB, Finition Béton Lisse), self-levelling poured floors (SC+, AXXX), lime plasters, renders and paints. Each system has its own colour card — the EBC alone runs to more than eighty shades — sold from a trial pot up to a 29.5 kg sack. Every product publishes its yield per kilo, its application thickness by substrate and a technical data sheet, so a surface can be costed rather than bought as a fixed kit.

Marius Aurenti

26300 Châteauneuf-sur-Isère

A French maker of béton ciré, lime finishes and decorative paints based in the Drôme, at the foot of the silica quarries and white-cement deposits it draws on. The Iris colour card runs to eighty-seven shades, sold as kits by destination — interior floor, terrace, bathroom, stair, worktop. Samples are made by hand in the workshop at 6 × 5 cm or 30 × 60 cm: at that size a béton ciré is judged as a material rather than as a colour on a screen.

Harmony Béton

13109 Simiane-Collongue

A béton ciré manufacturer and distributor based at Simiane-Collongue, north of Marseille, since 2005. The range is organised as complete kits by use — floor, wall, stair, bathroom, kitchen — shipped with the tools and the method, for DIY customers and applicators alike. The showroom on the ZA du Hameau des Frênes shows the shades as applied, and the products are also carried by the large DIY chains.

Arcane Industries

13400 Aubagne

A French manufacturer of waterproofing products, béton ciré and renovation paints, established in the Paluds industrial zone at Aubagne since 1995. Its kits are sold by destination — wall, bathroom, worktop, stair, fireplace, exterior, over tile — each holding primer, mortar, resin, pore-filler and varnish, across a forty-shade colour card. Its Maison Étanche shop prices every kit both outright and per square metre, in four languages.

Bétons Décoratifs

Aix-en-Provence

A maker of decorative-concrete products — béton ciré, printed, stamped and marbled concrete — preparing its orders from a workshop in Aix-en-Provence. The béton ciré comes in thirty-six shades, sold either by the component or as complete kits from two square metres up. Prices are degressive and quoted as factory prices: this is a manufacturer selling direct, with no distribution network in between.

Les Bétons de Clara

45200 Montargis

A family firm founded in 2008, both applicator and manufacturer of its own béton ciré line, with a hundred-square-metre showroom at Montargis. Kits cover three to twenty square metres and come by use — floor, wall, worktop, shower, fireplace, stair, furniture. The colour card is deliberately short at fifteen shades, from gull grey to anthracite by way of turquoise and poppy red.

Rouvière Collection

30210 Saint-Hilaire-d'Ozilhan

For close to forty years this Gard house has been shaping bespoke decorative concrete: paving, tiles, pool copings, furniture, renders and béton ciré. Workshop and showroom sit at Saint-Hilaire-d'Ozilhan, between Nîmes and Avignon, with a second showroom at Muret. Its béton ciré shares a catalogue with terracotta and zellige, which makes it a direct point of comparison between a floor and the wall above it.

Topciment

Valencia

A Spanish microcement manufacturer and a reference in the trade, whose Microbase, Microfino and Topsealer ranges sell both by the component and as kits by destination — wall, floor, swimming pool. Prices therefore read by the tub rather than by the finished kit. The products reach buyers through a network of partner online shops, in Spain and beyond.

Kaicem

Alicante

The online brand of Innova Chemical, a maker of seamless coatings based at El Campello near Alicante, certified ISO 9001 and 14001. The catalogue is organised as kits by area — five to fifty square metres — filterable by shade, each with its technical data sheet. Twelve mineral colours, from Arena to Basalto, plus the primers, varnishes and accessories sold separately.

La Tienda del Microcemento

Barcelona

A Spanish microcement specialist shop based at L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. Its complete kits — primer, mesh, microcement, varnish — run from five to a hundred and fifty square metres, which gives the most complete price-per-square-metre ladder in the trade. Sixty shades on the colour card; it is a reseller, and the manufacturer is not named.

Pavimento Moderno

Crotone

An Italian microcement maker based in Calabria, at Castelsilano. Its complete kits cover three to three hundred square metres on a degressive scale, with some twenty named shades — Bianco Naturale, Perla, Cemento, Manhattan, Sabbia, Cotto — and bespoke colour to RAL or NCS. The formulations are solvent-free and declared compliant with ISO 16000 on indoor air quality.

Ideal Work

Treviso

A Venetian decorative-concrete house at Vedelago near Treviso, whose systems — Microtopping, Nuvolato Architop, Lixio, Rasico — are laid by a network of trained applicators rather than sold as kits. Prices are not public: this is a reference for colour cards, finishes and methods, not a shop.

Novacolor

47122 Forlì

An Italian house of decorative paints and plasters, whose microcements and mineral wall finishes come with a very wide colour palette. Its back office is at Forlì in Romagna, its flagship store in Milan. Like Ideal Work it works through applicators and dealers: the colour card is public, the prices are not.

Minirasex

Bergamo

A microcement produced by APSE (V&V srl) at Verdello in Lombardy, a house that has been making coatings since 1964. The range covers floors, bathrooms and walls, in microcement and in resin, laid through a network of trained applicators. The online shop sells the systems by the component; the colour card is shorter than the big Spanish houses'.

Biologement

13112 La Destrousse

Matériaux Écologiques Provence keeps a shop at La Destrousse, in the hills behind Marseille: natural paints, lime and clay plasters, cork, solid wood floors — and a béton ciré kit range in some fifty shades, from about twenty euros the square metre. Each shade is its own product, photographed as it is actually trowelled, and sold by area: 2 to 32 m². The house also runs courses in lime and clay, which says a good deal about who it is for.

Société des Ocres de France

84400 Apt

The firm has quarried and washed ochre at Apt since 1901, beside the last working ochre quarry in Europe at Gargas. Four generations of one family, awarded the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant mark in 2017. The colour is made here, and the range follows from it: limewashes (Badisof, Badisof Plus), lime renders (Sofodor, Sofolith), tadelakt, tinted plasters, flour paints — and the card of natural pigments all of them are drawn from.

Chaux de Saint-Astier

24110 Saint-Astier

An independent family firm approaching its centenary, firing the siliceous chalky limestone of the Saint-Astier basin in the Dordogne. That stone yields a natural lime that is both non-hydraulic and faintly hydraulic at once, with nothing added — the French reference for old buildings. Three strengths in the catalogue — Téréchaux NHL 2, Chaux Blanche LC NHL 3.5 and Tradi 100 NHL 5 — plus the mortars and renders drawn from them. It is the binder under a good many of the limewashes and stuccos sold elsewhere.

Couleurs d'Antan

30100 Alès

A Cévennes maker at Alès, preparing its materials the old way: limewash and marmorino built from lime putty, linseed oil and limewater. Two colour cards, one per product — a wash and a stucco do not take the same shades, and the house would rather say so in two cards than in one.

Kerakoll

41049 Sassuolo

An Emilian house at Sassuolo whose Biocalce line is lime as an industrial maker sees it: an EN 459-1 certified NHL 3.5 plaster, a lime-putty stucco, an earth-pigment wash, each with its data sheet and its GreenBuilding rating. It is the far end of the trade from a limewash workshop — standardised products, available anywhere, whose yield and vapour permeability are known before the sack is opened.

Calchèra San Giorgio

38055 Grigno

As much a research centre as a maker, in the Valsugana: the house studies Roman and Phoenician mortars in order to make them again, and can reproduce the render of a building under restoration from a sample of the original. The catalogue reads as that programme — Calce Pozzolanica Pantheon, non-hydraulic lime cold-mixed with natural pozzolans after Vitruvius, cocciopesto renders — rather than as a card of shades.

Ressource

30133 Les Angles

One of the last independent paint makers in France, at Les Angles across the river from Avignon. The house descends from the Société Provençale du Blanc Fixe, Ocres et Couleurs, founded in 1946 to work the ochre quarries of Roussillon: the Luberon connection is not a brand story, it is where the company came from. More than six hundred shades on the card, the interior decorative range rated A+ for emissions, and the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant mark since 2018.

Boero

16121 Genova

Genoese since 1831, when Bartolomeo Boero opened a workshop making white lead — for centuries the only white there was. The house never left the city: its seat is the Palazzo Boero on via Macaggi, dated 1926. Three trades since: architectural paints, marine and yachting. This is the colour of Ligurian façades, whose painted renders are most of what that coast looks like.

San Marco

30020 Marcon

Colorificio San Marco, founded in 1962 and named for Venice, sits at Marcon on the mainland. It has since become the head of a group holding several decorative brands, Novacolor among them. The catalogue runs to vapour-permeable water-based paints, lime products — Antica Calce foremost — thick coatings and tinting pastes: the paint maker that reaches furthest into lime, which makes it the natural neighbour of the renders on this site.

Pinturas Isaval

46394 Riba-roja de Túria

Founded in Valencia in 1968 by the Vallejo brothers, at first to make distemper, now on a 21,000 m² site at Riba-roja de Túria. More than fifteen hundred references covering decoration and refurbishment alike — mineral façade paints and the primers that go under them among them, which is the everyday of Spanish Mediterranean building.

Vitex

19300 Aspropyrgos

A Greek house at Aspropyrgos, on the industrial plain west of Athens, founded in 1932 on bituminous waterproofing and turned to paint in 1960. It keeps three lines — architectural paints as Vitex, external insulation as Vitextherm, waterproofing as Hermes — and its façade white is what one is really looking at, without knowing it, across the Aegean.

Argile

95220 Herblay-sur-Seine

A French maker of high-end decorative paints, born of a meeting between a colourist and an entrepreneur, and one of the few formulating outside petrochemistry: the Nature range is bound with bio-sourced plant oils rather than a resin out of oil — three finishes, matt, satin and velvet. The colour card comes in three collections named after where their colour comes from — Terre, Végétale, Ciel — plus *Les Inédits*, and every shade is offered in all ten of the house's finishes, from the lacquers to the wall paints. The company is registered at Herblay-sur-Seine and shows its shades in its Paris and London showrooms; it is the one house on this page whose manufacture is not Mediterranean, and it is here for its work on colour and for its binder.

Blime

13006 Marseille

From Marseille, and the only paint house on this page that is. Blime came out of a meeting between Armand and Adrien, grandson of a Montpellier family of painters, and its paint is made where it has always been made: in an independent family workshop in Montpellier, ISO 9001 certified, where the craft has passed through three generations. Every can is mixed to order — no surplus stock, nothing left over — in four finishes: mat velours, satin, lacquer and exterior. The shop is on rue Falque in the 6th, and the colour card is short and held to it, a hundred-odd shades rather than a catalogue.

Libéron

39210 Domblans

Founded in 1912 by Georges Libéron in a shop in the faubourg Saint-Antoine, the Paris quarter of cabinetmakers and gilders, who were the house's first customers. The waxes, patinas and wood varnishes came from there, and the wall paint long afterwards; its 163 Faubourg range still carries the original address. Two colour cards today — *Velours de Peinture* and *163 Faubourg* — whose shade names are a small geography of France in themselves, from Vert Picholine to Beige Bouillon. The house belongs to the Jura group V33, which makes it at Domblans: it is here for its colour card, not for its latitude.

Com-Cal

Barcelona

A Catalan maker of lime materials (Comcal Natural S.L.), based on the Can Roqueta estate in Sabadell, north of Barcelona. Its range is a lime burner's, turned towards restoration and natural building: NHL 3.5 and NHL 5 natural hydraulic lime, lime mortars, lime paints for interiors and façades, a lime glaze and a lime-putty stucco. The paints, the glaze and the stucco share one thirty-seven-shade colour card, published online with a price per pot.

Ornaretti

44120 Vertou

A retailer, not a maker: Ornaretti is an online shop for decorative paints and plasters, run from Vertou by Arte Venezzia SARL, registered in early 2022. It does not make the paint it sells; its founders describe fifteen years of decorative sites behind them, which is a team's experience and not the house's age. What brings it onto this page is one thing: its lime paint, bound with slaked lime and natural pigments, in fifty shades sold as 10 to 100 m² kits — a mineral binder few French shops offer with a full colour card and a published price. Beside it, a marmorino, a pearled paint and a sanded one.

Ökobo

85000 La Roche-sur-Yon

A retailer, not a maker: Ökobo is an ecological building-materials shop run by Yohann Klein from La Roche-sur-Yon. It formulates nothing — it distributes in France four German houses that do: Kreidezeit, Auro, Beeck and ClayTec. Which is why it is here: between them those four cover almost every mineral binder on this page — lime, silicate, clay and casein — with compositions published ingredient by ingredient, which very few makers do. Kreidezeit's smooth lime paint is slaked marble lime, marble powders and sands, methylcellulose and citric acid, tinted with the shop's own pigments.

Maison Ecolo

69570 Dardilly

A retailer, not a maker: an online shop for natural materials run from Dardilly, near Lyon, by ACA Management SARL. It sells other houses' paints, washes and renders, among them the Italian Dolci, whose lime finishing renders are lime putty and marble powder, sold in 25 kg buckets in coarse or fine grain. Its place here is on the lime side rather than the paint side: what it brings is a ready-mixed mineral render, tinted afterwards with pigments, with a coverage figure printed on the bucket — one of the few French shopfronts to publish a square-metres-per-sack for this kind of product.

Signature d'Exception

69480 Ambérieux-d'Azergues

A distributor's own label, not a manufacturing house. *Signature d'Exception* is the colour card of the Sign'NATURE network, carried by Espace Coopérative, the co-operative of independent paint merchants at Ambérieux-d'Azergues north of Lyon. The paint is formulated for it, not by it. What makes it worth having here is what a retailers' co-operative does: over four hundred shades, machine-tinted in the network's own shops, arranged as harmonies rather than colour families — *Les Chaleureuses*, *Les Pétillantes* — and sold by the litre, the 2.5 L and the 10 L with the price on show, which the makers on this page rarely do.