Marlboro Blue

Marlboro Blue is a soft, dusty blue in Meoded's Stucco Lamundo, a lime-based Venetian plaster. It is not a paint: the colour is tinted into a plaster paste that is troweled onto the wall in thin layers.

Meoded does not publish colour names or digital values for the range online, so the name here is the designer's credit and the swatch on this page is approximate, sampled from the photographs.

Retailer JC Licht describes Stucco Lamundo as a highly polished, marble-like finish, built up in thin layers that create colour variation and depth before being burnished to a sheen.

That movement is the point. In the photographs here the blue shifts from a pale grey-blue where the light hits to a deeper slate in the corners, which a flat paint in the same colour would not do.

Retailers describe it as an interior finish for walls, ceilings and architectural details, applied mainly over plaster and gypsum board, and call it hard-wearing.

The Victoria Forehan Design powder room on this page is a classic use: a small room where a polished, enveloping finish makes the most impact, with a scalloped stone basin, brass taps and a curvy mirror.

Application is specialist work: JC Licht's steps are to prime with Meoded's Quartz Primer, trowel on the coats and burnish. Most people hire a plaster applicator.

Because Meoded does not list the colour name online, ask a Meoded dealer for a physical sample of Marlboro Blue before ordering. The retailers do not mention suitability for wet areas, so check with the dealer for a bathroom with a shower.