Zag Vanilla & Mistral Blue Tile

Two diagonal bands in opposite corners: that signature geometry comes straight from the collaboration between designer Baptiste Vandaele and Carocim. The Zag Vanille & Bleu Mistral is one of its colourways — a luminous, modern cement tile where the vanilla ground softens the mistral-blue lines. The pattern exists because of this designer partnership.

To keep colours consistent across its collections, Carocim works with its own reference palette, the U colour chart, which lists the house shades used on its cement tiles. The vanilla and mistral blue of this tile belong to it, so you can match plain tiles or other patterns precisely. The Carocim team can point you to the exact references.

No, not for UV protection: Carocim systematically gives its outdoor cement tiles an anti-UV treatment that shields the vanilla and mistral-blue pigments from fading. What you should maintain is the water and stain protection — renew the pore filler or sealer when water stops beading — but sunlight itself calls for no special routine.

The Zag Vanille & Bleu Mistral sells at 220.50 euros per square metre at Carocim. That price buys a fully handmade cement tile, 20 × 20 cm and 16 mm thick, packed in boxes of 12 tiles covering 0.48 square metres. Count 25 tiles per square metre when working out your budget.

Two floors laid with this cement tile will never be strictly identical: pigment batches, hand pressing and natural curing all introduce gentle variations in the vanilla and blue tones. Far from a flaw, this is what gives a Carocim surface its depth — your installation of the Zag Vanille & Bleu Mistral becomes, quite literally, one of a kind.