Venetian plaster · Marmorino
Marmorino plaster
The depth of stone, the softness of light
Where paint sits flat on a wall, marmorino has movement in it. Each coat is pressed and polished so the marble in the plaster catches the light differently as you cross the room — a quiet, mottled depth that photographs as calm and reads, up close, as hand-made. It is a mineral finish: lime-based, breathable, and tinted through the body rather than painted on top, so the colour lives in the material instead of on its surface.
Applications
Feature walls
A single polished wall that anchors a living room, headboard or stair — the finish most clients start with.
Whole rooms
Every wall in marmorino for an enveloping, seamless shell, with no corners breaking the colour.
Ceilings
A polished ceiling that carries the same soft sheen overhead, catching daylight and lamplight.
Hospitality & retail
Lobbies, restaurants and boutiques where a hand-applied surface sets the tone at the door.
Venetian plaster · Marmorino
Marble dust and lime, polished by hand until the wall holds light like stone.
The Benefits
- A mineral, lime-based finish tinted through the body of the plaster
- Hand-trowelled and burnished for a soft, stone-like sheen
- Seamless across a wall — no panel lines and no repeats
- Breathable, so it suits Miami's older lime and masonry walls
- Colour matched to your scheme from a hand-made sample
- Repairable and re-polishable in place rather than stripped and replaced
Where It Works
- Interior feature and accent walls
- Whole living rooms, bedrooms and dining rooms
- Ceilings and stair walls
- Lobbies, restaurants and boutique retail
- Powder rooms and dry-to-lightly-damp spaces, with the right sealer
Where It Doesn't
- Wet-immersion areas like shower walls — that is tadelakt's territory
- Floors and other high-traffic, high-wear surfaces
- Full exteriors and façades exposed to driving rain
- Kitchen splashbacks directly behind a hob without a protective sealer
Our Process
Sample & colour
We make a hand-trowelled sample in your own light and colour before anything goes on the wall.
Prepare the wall
We skim and prime the substrate flat, because marmorino shows every ripple beneath it.
Trowel & burnish
Thin coats are applied and polished by hand, building the mottled depth coat by coat.
Seal & protect
A breathable sealer is chosen for the room's exposure to hands, damp and cleaning.
Installing in South Florida
Miami's humidity is kind to lime. Marmorino is a breathable, mineral finish, so it lets a wall release moisture rather than trapping it behind a film — which is why it sits comfortably on the older lime-plastered and masonry walls found across Coral Gables and the Grove. In genuinely damp rooms we match the sealer to the exposure so the surface stays easy to wipe down.
Cost
$18–$32
per sq ft