Argile

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.