Blime

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.