Kros Vanilla & Sainte-Victoire Red Tile

Sunny locations call for no exclusions here: because Carocim treats its outdoor cement tiles against UV as standard, both the vanilla ground and the Sainte-Victoire red cross of this tile are protected from fading. Choose Carreau Kros Vanille & Rouge Sainte-Victoire freely for bright terraces — the contrast is made to endure.

Yes, it outlasts trends remarkably well: geometry ages better than ornament, and the vanilla-and-red cross of Carreau Kros Vanille & Rouge Sainte-Victoire reads as boldly today as it will in twenty years. A handmade Carocim cement tile carries its own timelessness — the craft anchors it while the graphic keeps it current.

Thin, successive coats are the rule: apply the water- and oil-repellent sealer on a clean, dry Carreau Kros Vanille & Rouge Sainte-Victoire until the surface stops absorbing, wiping off any excess before it dries. Carocim's guiding test for this cement tile is simple — when water beads instead of soaking in, protection is achieved.

One grid, crossing diagonals: baptiste Vandaele built the Kros pattern by interlacing broad bands until they formed a graphic cross filling the 20 × 20 cm square. Developed for Carocim, the design was then translated into a divider mould so artisans could reproduce it in pigmented cement, tile after tile — drawing become cement tile.

Picture a metal stencil with raised walls tracing the cross motif: that is the divider mould. Placed in the tile frame, its compartments are filled by hand — vanilla here, Sainte-Victoire red there — before it is lifted away and the tile pressed. This is how Carocim draws each cement tile in coloured matter.