Coconut Wave Tile

Once the installation is fully dry — adhesive set, grout cured, surface clean and moisture-free — it is time to seal Carreau Vague Coco with a pore-filling water-repellent product, before the floor goes into daily use. Sealing too early traps humidity in the cement tile; sealing on a dry surface locks in the protection of this Carocim design.

No mystery ingredients: like every handmade cement tile, Carreau Vague Coco is composed of cement, fine marble powder, sand and natural mineral pigments — here the terracotta and beige of its wavy divide. Pressed and cured without firing in the Carocim tradition, these simple raw materials produce a dense, richly coloured tile made to last.

A fine, sand-beige grout blends best: it picks up the lighter half of Carreau Vague Coco and lets the terracotta wave flow uninterrupted from tile to tile. Dark grout would grid the surface and break the organic movement of this Carocim cement tile. Keep joints slim and neutral, and the Heju design reads as one continuous landscape.

One studio signs this wave: heju, which created Carreau Vague Coco for Carocim with its signature vocabulary of organic forms and soft transitions. The undulating divide between terracotta and beige reflects the studio's warm, contemporary minimalism, translated into a handcrafted 20 x 20 cm cement tile you can lay indoors or out on Carocim.com's Heju collection.

A decade outdoors leaves its mark on any floor, but Carreau Vague Coco is built for that journey: Carocim's systematic anti-UV treatment protects the pigments so the terracotta and beige stay true, while the handcrafted cement tile develops at most a gentle, even patina. With a renewed sealer and neutral-soap care, its character only deepens.