Zig Vanilla & Rose Nerium Tile

No, it is not a defect: the gentle shifts of vanilla and pink between tiles are the signature of a cement tile made entirely by hand. They give a laid floor of the Zig Vanille & Rose Nerium its luminous depth. Mix tiles from several boxes during installation, as Carocim recommends, and the nuances will spread beautifully.

Handcraft defines everything about it: pigments poured one tile at a time into a divider mould, hand pressing, slow natural curing without firing. This gives the Zig Vanille & Rose Nerium colours embedded in the mass, a living matte surface and subtle variations no factory line could imitate — the very character of a Carocim cement tile.

One tool holds the secret: the divider mould, a metal frame reproducing the pattern's outlines. The artisan pours the vanilla and nerium-pink pigments into its compartments, lifts it away, then presses the cement tile. Repeated identically piece after piece, this traditional gesture gives the Carocim workshop its precision — with the faint variations that prove the hand behind it.

Facing strong sun, this tile is well prepared: Carocim systematically applies an anti-UV treatment to its outdoor cement tiles, protecting the vanilla and nerium-pink pigments from fading. The Zig Vanille & Rose Nerium keeps its luminous delicacy on a terrace or behind a glass wall, through Mediterranean summer after Mediterranean summer.

Yes, the designer is easy to discover: baptiste Vandaele created this range with Carocim, and the house presents its collections and their authors on Carocim.com. There you can explore his graphic vocabulary of wide parallel diagonals and see how the Zig Vanille & Rose Nerium fits into the wider family of cement tiles he designed.