Italian surface finishes in the UK
This page is the internal library behind the London Studio, ISF Academy and the Installer Network – a single place where every Italian finish in the Framework is recorded as a product and a system, not as “effect paint”.
Use it when you need to understand what sits under a finish, which family it belongs to or where it lives in a project – then take decisions in the Studio, training or on a live job with the same map.
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ISF is a surface finishes company, not a catalogue house. This page shows every Italian product we work with in the UK, organised the way projects actually move: from families (how a room reads), through bodies & systems (what sits underneath), down to an A–Z index for technical checks.
Start with the four surface families if you’re choosing walls. Move to bodies & wet systems if you’re planning floors, bathrooms or microcement-style work. Drop into the A–Z index when you need to look up a specific product, primer or top coat during specification, training or installation.
This collection is the reference point for:
If you’re a homeowner or client wanting an installer, skip straight to Find an installer – we’ll match you to the right people in the Network instead of sending you through the library.
The Framework starts with a simple question: when you stand back, should this wall read as mineral, metallic, fabric-like or more expressive texture? Each answer sits in its own family with a dedicated Studio page, Academy route and installer training path.
Mineral family
Meteore 10 concretes, stones and plasters – the mineral backbone of the Framework. These are the walls that feel structural: stair cores, long circulation runs, galleries, lobbies and main living spaces where painted gypsum is not enough.
The Designer Plaster collection is where most architectural schemes begin. From here you layer metallic, silk & suede or artistic textures as required, without losing the mineral spine of the project.
Collection: Designer plaster surfaces →
Valmetal, Meteore 8 + Lamé and Klondike systems – metal as architectural surface, from brushed and mineral metallic readings to oxidised iron and corten. Bars, lobbies, cores and focused feature walls sit here.
Valsetin and Valrenna – fabric-reading walls for bedrooms, suites, lounges and long corridors where light needs to be softened, not bounced. The quiet side of the Framework, especially at Level 2 of the Academy.
Sabulador, Arteco 7, Mavericks and textile systems – controlled sand, patina, wave and textile textures used where the brief needs more movement, but still has to sit quietly next to concrete, fabric and metal in real rooms.
Families decide how a room reads. Continuous bodies and wet systems decide how it behaves – especially for floors, bathrooms, wet rooms and spa spaces. These are the systems that sit underneath “microcement bathrooms” and seamless floors in the Framework.
In the library they live as their own collection: continuous & waterproof surfaces. On projects they are the bodies that carry Designer Plaster, Metallic, Silk & Suede or Artistic families through high-risk zones.
Italian Microcement (I-BETON PLUS) and related continuous bodies for floors, stairs and walls – concrete-reading surfaces at just a few millimetres thickness over prepared bases.
E-VOLUTION PLUS waterproof bodies that carry concrete, marble, stone, silk, suede, sand, patina and metallic readings through UK bathrooms, wet rooms and spa spaces.
This index lists every product in the All Products collection. It is for reference, specification and training – not for direct purchase. Use it when you need to confirm what a product is, which family or body it belongs to, and which Academy Level or system it normally sits under.
This page is the back-of-house view. On its own it is just data. It comes to life when you drop it into the rest of the ecosystem – Italian manufacturer, London Studio, ISF Academy and the Installer Network.
A finish you see on a wall in the Studio, a system you learn at the Academy and a cycle you install on site all trace back here – to a defined product and system inside the Framework. That’s what keeps drawings, training and site work aligned instead of improvising from brochures.
Valpaint surface systems – concretes, stones, metallics, silk, suede, textures, microcement bodies and waterproof systems – developed as complete chemistries, not decorative skins in a tin.
Those systems are chosen and tested at 1:1 scale – Designer Plaster, Metallic, Silk & Suede, Artistic Textures and continuous bodies all shown on real walls, floors and bathrooms.
The same products are broken into Levels and methods so installers learn full cycles – primers, bodies, passes and protection – rather than one-day tricks on demo boards.
Projects across the UK are delivered by ISF Approved Installers working on these exact systems – feeding field experience back into Studio, Academy and product choices.
Italian systems, London Studio, ISF Academy and the Installer Network – this library is the shared reference that keeps all four looking at the same surface language.
Use the A–Z index and families when you need to understand the products. Use the Studio, Academy and Network when you are ready to build bathrooms, floors and walls that behave as well as they photograph.