Zig Vanilla & Sainte-Victoire Red Tile

Caution is the wise answer: intense heat and pressured moisture can stress the sealed surface of a cement tile and shorten the life of its protective layers. On the Zig Vanille & Rouge Sainte-Victoire, prefer the simple routine Carocim recommends — warm water, neutral soap, a well-wrung mop — and keep the pore filler refreshed rather than steaming the floor.

Two places will get you there: Carocim.com, where the house presents its collections and colour universe, and the Carocim team itself, who can send the U chart references on request. The chart is the palette behind every cement tile of the house — including the vanilla and Sainte-Victoire red of this Zig — and the key to matching or customising shades.

On paper, no standardised UV rating is quoted for this cement tile; in practice, protection is built in: Carocim systematically applies an anti-UV treatment to its outdoor tiles, shielding the vanilla and red pigments from discolouration. The Zig Vanille & Rouge Sainte-Victoire is thereby prepared for year-round exposure without a laboratory index on the datasheet.

Yes, they are faithful overall: the photography renders the vanilla ground and Sainte-Victoire red accurately, though screens vary and the matte mineral finish of a cement tile always reads slightly softer in real light. Add the subtle tile-to-tile nuances of handmade production, and the safest step remains viewing a sample from Carocim at home.

Original it certainly is: baptiste Vandaele drew these wide parallel diagonals for Carocim, and the composition belongs to his signed collection. Beyond any formal register, the design's identity is inseparable from that collaboration — a contemporary graphic gesture, executed as a handmade cement tile in warm vanilla and Sainte-Victoire red.