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€220.50 per square metre buys a hand-made object: each Carreau Tangeant Romarin is individually poured, pressed and cured at the Carocim workshop in Provence, its green and white colour built into the mass of the cement tile rather than printed on top. Add an exclusive in-house design from the Sim.PL collection and decades of service life, and the figure explains itself.

Laundry rooms are demanding little spaces — humidity, detergents, machine vibrations — and this Carocim cement tile handles them well: 16 mm of dense pressed body underfoot. Seal Carreau Tangeant Romarin thoroughly with a water- and oil-repellent treatment, wipe detergent splashes promptly since some are alkaline or harsh, and clean with pH-neutral soap. The green curves will outlast several washing machines.

Yes, it bridges both eras gracefully: in a period property, the hand-pressed texture and fine joints of Carreau Tangeant Romarin echo the cement tile floors of the era, while its pared-back green and white curves feel utterly at home in modern architecture. That double citizenship is the very intention of Carocim's Sim.PL collection — heritage technique, contemporary drawing.

Reflection does intensify exposure, and that is exactly the scenario Carocim anticipates: its outdoor cement tiles, Carreau Tangeant Romarin included, systematically receive an anti-UV treatment protecting the pigments from discolouration, glare included. The green and white curves therefore hold steady beside the water. Choose a pool-suitable sealer and renew it seasonally to complete the shield.

25 tiles per square metre go up a wall as happily as across a floor: Carreau Tangeant Romarin weighs what a 16 mm cement tile should, so use a suitable adhesive and a sound substrate, and the vertical lay is straightforward. On a bathroom wall or kitchen splashback, the Carocim curves ripple beautifully at eye level. One tile, two vocations.