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This Style Guide is all about embracing colour and texture and geometric forms. Rich, earthy tones sit alongside deep blues and vibrant greens, while smooth surfaces meet carved and heavily textured finishes. Geometric shapes bring everything together, creating a collection that feels bold, creative, and a little unexpected.
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At the centre of the palette is our new CreteCote Microcement colour, Emerald Green, used as the backdrop for the collection. Deep and saturated, Emerald Green creates a strong foundation for the softer neutrals; warm terracotta tones and flashes of blue and yellow layered over it. Used across a wall or floor, it could bring the same sense of depth to an interior, creating a backdrop for furniture, artwork and other decorative details.
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For something more tactile, DecoCrete in Camel has been carved and textured to create a highly three-dimensional surface.
This texture creates plenty of character. It feels so raw and so natural, we could imagine this used on a feature wall, fireplace surround or even as a backdrop to a collection of handmade objects, where changing light would highlight the highs and lows of the surface throughout the day.
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CreteCote Microcement in Coconut brings a lighter element to the palette. Brushed onto a semi-circle, the application leaves behind subtle movement and texture, showing how even a simple colour can take on a completely different character depending on how it is applied. While CreteCote is typically used as a skim-on smooth-troweled coating, here, we are highlighting that it can also be brushed to create quite a different look and feel.
We love the idea of using a finish such as this on a curved wall or architectural feature, particularly when paired with stronger colours elsewhere in the space.
We've also featured CreteCote Microcement in Fern Green, a favourite in the classic, smooth microcement finish.
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Then there is BrickWash in Namib, another finish that demonstrates the beauty of application. Also brushed onto a semi-circle, the texture of the brushwork becomes part of the design. On a larger scale, this translates beautifully onto every kind of wall, adding warmth and movement.
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RenoCrete in Deep Ocean, coated with CreteStain in Blue, brings a completely different energy to the palette. The deep blue works beautifully with the rough, rustic texture underneath, creating a finish that feels weathered and layered. We also feature CreteStain Lichen; a rich yellow tone to add another dimension.
Rather than choosing one finish and repeating it throughout a space, there is something exciting about allowing different surfaces to interact. A smooth microcement floor could sit beneath a heavily textured wall. A deep green could frame a warm, carved surface, while a flash of blue adds contrast. Curves and circles can soften more structured forms, while handmade pieces introduce another layer of shape and texture.
For Colour Takes Shape, we have collaborated with Moors Ceramics, who brought their handmade ceramic wall domes into the mix.
Available in various colours and sizes, the domes add a sculptural quality to the collection, complementing the geometric shapes of the Cemcrete samples while bringing the warmth and individuality of handmade ceramics.
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MOORS CERAMICS
Moors Ceramics is a South African ceramics studio based in Malmesbury in the Western Cape. Working from Lowensvlei Flower Farm in the Swartland, the studio creates handcrafted ceramic pieces inspired by the colours, forms and rhythms of its surroundings. For our collaboration, Moors Ceramics supplied their sculptural wall domes in a selection of colours and sizes. Each dome is cast, finished and glazed by hand, meaning that while the pieces share the same form, each has its own subtle variations. They can be displayed individually or combined to create larger installations. |
We love how naturally they sit alongside the Cemcrete finishes. The domes bring another dimension of colour, shape and texture to the collection, while their repetition creates a sense of rhythm against the more organic surfaces of the Cemcrete finishes.
There is also something quite fitting about bringing handmade ceramics into a Style Guide centred around materiality. Both clay and cement share a certain rawness to them, but it is the application, colour, texture and small variations that give each material its character.
