Natural finishes
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about natural finishes
Product • By Progress Profiles SpA • Kaleidos
Kaleidos
With forty years of experience in technical and decorative profile innovation, Progress Profiles confirms its leading position with the launch of Kaleidos: a new concept that aims to reinterpret the vitality and multifaceted nature of interior design, with new shades designed to express the potential of finishes in harmony with the most sought-after furnishing styles. Architects, designers and professionals now have the opportunity to identify the ideal solutions for their projects thanks to a clear, elegant and more comprehensive than ever choice of colours. The concept won the Archiproducts Design Award. More
Product • By Clayworks • Clayworks Undulating Finish
Clayworks Undulating Finish
This bespoke finish echoes our dedication to craft and material innovation. Gentle multidirectional indentations create moments of light and shade on the surface, highlighting the beauty of clay's inherent texture. More
Product • By Clayworks • Clayworks Rammed Earth Finish
Clayworks Rammed Earth Finish
Clayworks’ Rammed Earth finishes have been developed as an answer to the complex and technical challenges of building with monolithic mass, an ancient, natural construction method. Traditional rammed earth architecture requires many tonnes of compressed earth (normally at a width of 800mm) to create buildings with structural integrity, prohibiting its use and viability in most urban and retrofit contexts.
As an alternative to monolithic mass rammed earth walls, Clayworks Rammed Earth finishes can be applied as an entirely customisable 7-10mm thick wall build up, suitable for all wall and construction types. This innovation entirely revolutionises the way this natural building technique can be applied in contemporary buildings, delive... More
Product • By Clayworks • Clayworks Tadelakt
Clayworks Tadelakt
Clayworks Tadelakt Finish is defined by its polished depth and subtle sheen, created through a meticulous handcrafting process. The surface is smooth, rich, and light-reflective, carrying a quiet elegance that enhances interior spaces. Both functional and beautiful, Tadelakt embodies a timeless material tradition, refined to bring durability and character to modern design.
Made from natural lime, this finish is water-resistant, breathable, and non-toxic. Its unique surface is achieved through careful layering, compression, and polishing, before being treated with olive oil soap to create lasting protection. The result is a durable, low-impact alternative to tiles or synthetic coatings, offering a seamless finish that contributes to healthi... More
Product • By Clayworks • Clayworks Rustic Finish
Clayworks Rustic Finish
Clayworks Rustic Finish embraces the full richness of clay, with a robust, earthy quality that carries natural depth and variation. Its coarser texture brings raw materiality to interiors, offering an elemental and enduring character.
Made from natural clay, this finish is breathable, non-toxic, and contributes to healthier indoor environments. Its ability to regulate humidity and soften acoustics complements its visual strength, ensuring that its striking presence also enhances comfort and wellbeing within a space. More
Product • By Clayworks • Clayworks Smooth Finish
Clayworks Smooth Finish
Clayworks Smooth Finish is a natural clay plaster, offering a refined, quietly textured surface with a soft sheen and subtle tonal variation. The natural qualities of clay bring warmth and tactility, with a quiet depth that enhances interior space. Calm and understated, the finish can serve as a minimalist backdrop or a defining surface in its own right.
This finish is breathable, non-toxic, and contributes to healthier indoor environments. Its ability to regulate humidity and soften acoustics complements its aesthetic qualities, making it both a practical and beautiful choice for interior surfaces. More
Product • By Clayworks • Clayworks Demi-Rustic Finish
Clayworks Demi-Rustic Finish
Clayworks Demi-Rustic Finish reveals the richer, more pronounced texture of clay, bringing depth and character to interior surfaces. Its tactile quality creates a sense of weight and grounding, while natural tonal variation enhances the surface with warmth and presence. Expressive yet balanced, Demi-Rustic celebrates the raw beauty of clay in a finish that feels timeless and elemental.
Made from natural clay, this finish is breathable, non-toxic, and contributes to healthier indoor environments. Its ability to regulate humidity and soften acoustics complements its aesthetic qualities, ensuring that its visual richness is matched by comfort and wellbeing in the spaces it defines. More
Product • By Clayworks • Clayworks Tonal Finish
Clayworks Tonal Finish
The Clayworks Tonal finish produces interiors that seem to breathe. Walls are left silky, with rich tonal variations that catch the light and imbue a feeling of motion. The effect can be cloud-like, loaded with subtle sensory interest.Our Tonal finish is often specified as a sustainable, versatile alternative to polished cement, polished plaster, Venetian Plaster and Marmorino. More
Project • By Morphlab • Private Houses
Shift-ing earth
This project is a conversation between Architecture and Nature. Set in the middle of a dense forest, the house pivots around a tree with its spaces shifting and stacking around it responding to its immediate context. The idea of the SHIFT-ing Earth stems from its response to its context. Change in context brings about change in the response. Such core contextual parameters were identified and synthesized into an algorithm that can be applied to different contexts producing different outcomes. This process helped us to populate the structures over the site of the township with unique solutions for every individual plot responding to parameters like Sun, Wind and Vista.
We looked into one such plot and explored more in the detail on th... More
Product • By LA CALCE DEL BRENTA • ZER04
ZER04
Zer04 is a new lime finish created for those who are looking for an extremely modern solution, ideal for yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s homes. Smooth, matt, soft, with a velvet touch. Zer04 will change the perception of your wall, while offering a superior sensorial and aesthetic combination. Dynamic visual effects, never banal nor monotonous, combined with a refined velvet touch, giving depth and brightness to colours. Zer04 is the new standard of elegance in terms of materials. A new way of interpreting decoration, where the wall becomes a real architectural space. More