Gris Cement Tile
A stippled charcoal grey in zellige, here a flat, dense concrete tone — quieter and more architectural without the fine texture a glaze would carry. Cast in cement, the color settles into a solid, weighted neutral, dark enough to anchor a room without tipping into black. Each tile is hand-pressed from pigmented cement by artisans in Fez, following a hydraulic process that has shaped North African floors for well over a century — the pigment set not by fire, but by time and pressure.
Sold by the square foot, with each 8" x 8" tile covering just under half a square foot — about two and a quarter tiles per square foot of coverage. The quantity you select at checkout is square footage, and we'll round the tile count up so your installer never comes up short. A solid field of this grey grounds a room with quiet confidence, and it pairs naturally as a border alongside any of our patterned Gris-family tiles.
Cement tile carries the fingerprints of its making — soft variation in tone and a slightly porous, hand-finished surface that no machine could replicate. We recommend sealing every tile before installation and again after grouting — a small ritual that protects the pigment for decades to come. For larger runs, order ten percent beyond your total square footage to allow for cuts and pattern matching.
$13.50 per square foot.
Dimensions: 8" × 8" × 0.375"
SKU#: CEM075
