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Home and villa muralsMural artist in Grasse for perfume houses, shops, boutique hotels and older homes.
Mural artist in Grasse
In Grasse, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in houses, guest houses, workshops, restaurants and shops. Trained at the Brera Academy, she paints on site, from 150 € per square metre. Free quote within 48 hours, two sketches included: you approve the design before Giulia paints.
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The price of a mural in Grasse
| Simple motif or line drawingFine lines for flowers, patterns, silhouettes or figures… | 150 €/sqm |
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| Fully painted subjectColours and shadows for landscapes, portraits or scenes… | 250 €/sqm |
| Trompe-l’oeil or ceilingThe wall opens onto a false window, a sky on the ceiling or an entire landscape… | 350 €/sqm |
| Exterior facade: if needed, scaffolding is added to the quote. | |
Free quote within 48h
The price is based on the surface and the technique; the quote then takes into account interior or exterior, the condition of the wall, the height, scaffolding if needed and the timing.
A mural approach shaped by this place
Grasse is the world capital of perfume: its skills, from growing the plants to composing the fragrances, have been inscribed since 28 November 2018 on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. The historic houses receive visitors all year. The old town has tall, narrow and often strongly coloured facades. The old-town houses have stairwells and dark corridors, where paint brings light to windowless rooms. Grasse sits high and gets rain in winter: an exterior wall needs a properly dry surface and quartz paint. It all starts with a photo of the wall and its measurements: Giulia draws the sketch on top, then comes to paint on site.
What Giulia brings to Grasse. Giulia is a painter, trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She exhibits her paintings in art galleries and also paints on walls. Corriere della Sera, Domus and Sky Arte have covered her work, and her mural of more than twenty metres dedicated to Gaber and Jannacci stands in Milan. The wall is her favourite canvas because it truly becomes part of a place, a unique work made to tell your story.
Main mural pageMural portfolio
Giulia also paints live at weddings: she sets up her easel during the cocktail hour and the painting stays with the couple. From 950 €, see live wedding painting on the French Riviera.
Live painting is available in Grasse too. Giulia arrives with canvas and paints, works through a festival, an opening, a concert or a wedding, and the painting is yours at the end of the evening. From 950 € for a wedding, from 400 € for a performance. See live painting →
Your questions, before commissioning
A photo of the wall, its approximate dimensions and the idea you have in mind are enough to receive a quote.
How much does a mural cost in Grasse?
Giulia Dal Bon paints by the square metre: 150 € for a line drawing or a simple motif, 250 € for a fully painted subject, 350 € for trompe-l’oeil or a ceiling. A small mural in a bedroom costs less than a facade that needs preparation and scaffolding. The quote is free: see all prices.
Can a view of Grasse be painted on a wall?
Yes. Three or four landmarks are enough to recognise it. The flower fields and the terraces of the upper town, the ochre facades packed on the slope, and the cathedral above the roofs. Giulia Dal Bon paints it with a brush, on site. The rate follows the technique: 150 € per sqm for a line drawing, 250 € for a fully painted view. Free quote within 48 hours.
What subject works well for a mural in Grasse?
The most requested subjects: floral and botanical work for bedrooms and living rooms, landscapes for living spaces and terraces, trompe l’oeil for facades and ceilings. Everything is drawn to measure: Giulia offers two free sketches from your idea, and you refine it together until the subject is yours.
What is the difference between a hand-painted mural and spray-painted graffiti?
They are two different crafts. A graffiti artist works with spray cans, with a fast gesture and a graphic finish. A brush-painted mural is built layer by layer, which allows gradients, fine detail and trompe l’oeil: it is a painting made directly on the wall. Indoors, Giulia uses odourless acrylic. And while she paints, people take the time to watch: a brush at work is a show in itself. The choice depends on the finish you are after.
What do you call an artist who paints on walls?
A mural artist, a muralist, a wall artist or a decorative painter, and the art itself is called mural painting or wall art. Some come from graffiti and work with spray cans; Giulia Dal Bon comes from painting: trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she exhibits her paintings in art galleries and paints commissioned murals with a brush. To have one painted, send her a photo of your wall: free quote within 48 hours.
Does a mural hold up outdoors in Grasse?
Yes, with surface preparation and paints made for outdoor use. Grasse sits high and gets rain in winter. An exterior wall needs a properly dry surface and quartz paint.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in Grasse?
An interior wall can be painted freely. For a facade visible from the street, you usually need the owner’s or the building association’s approval, and a notice to the town hall if the building is in a protected area. Giulia explains the process before starting.
How long does it take to paint a mural?
It depends on the surface, the level of detail and how easy the wall is to reach. Giulia gives the timing with the quote, within 48 hours, and gives plenty of notice if the schedule moves. The place keeps running while she works: the acrylic is odourless.
How long does a mural last?
The murals Giulia Dal Bon paints last a lifetime indoors: the paint becomes part of the plaster and lives as long as the wall. Outdoors, quartz paint is made for facades, and an anti-salt or anti-pollution varnish extends it further. And if one day you want a change, it can be painted over like any wall paint.
Other spaces
The other places Giulia paints, her portfolio and the towns nearby.
Murals for hotels and boutiques
Giulia Dal Bon paints murals for hotels, boutiques, showrooms, and hospitality spaces.
Hotel and boutique murals
Murals for children’s bedrooms
Murals for bedrooms, children’s rooms and smaller spaces: a landscape at the foot of the bed, a botanical motif around a window, a painted sky on the ceiling.
Children’s bedroom muralsIdeas for spaces
Depending on the space in Grasse, the mural sits on a single panel of wall or covers the whole room: a simple or floral motif for a bedroom, a figurative scene for a living room, painted decor that follows the mouldings, or all four walls in one piece. Giulia draws from the wall she has seen.
Houses and villas
Children’s rooms, kitchens, hallways, entrances, stairwells and ceilings. Example: an old house stairwell of 12 sqm fully painted, around 3 000 €.
Hotels, restaurants and shops
Restaurants, cafes, shops, salons, showrooms, windows and commercial facades. A hand-painted mural belongs to this place alone, and it is what people remember about it. Example: a perfume house tour room of 15 sqm fully painted, around 3 750 €.
Facades and exterior walls
Less salt than on the coast, but sharper temperature swings. The surface has to be properly dry before starting. For a facade visible from the street, the owner’s or the building association’s approval is usually enough, plus a notice to the town hall in a protected zone. From 150 € per sqm, plus scaffolding if needed.
Nearby towns
Nearby places where the mural can take on a different rhythm, scale, or mood.
The mural of over 20 metres for Gaber and Jannacci, in Milan, in the press
Giulia Dal Bon, trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan.
Where Giulia works in Grasse
In Grasse, in a house, a villa, a second home or a flat, Giulia paints on an interior wall : the living room, the children’s bedroom and the bedroom. She also paints the kitchen, the bathroom, the entrance, the hallway and the stairwell. A ceiling is painted the same way, from the scaffold. Outdoors, she uses quartz paint on the exterior facade and the garden wall, with a protective varnish to finish. In a rented place, she paints on a mobile panel that you take with you.
In a restaurant, a pizzeria, a café or a bar in Grasse, the painted wall is visible from every table. In a boutique and a shop, window and shutter are painted by hand, and change with the seasons. In a hotel and a B&B, she paints the lobbies, the corridors and the rooms. In a hair salon, a spa and a gym, she paints the treatment-room walls and the reception area. For a medical practice, a waiting room and a nursery, she paints the entrance and the waiting area. For an office and a showroom, she paints reception, the corridor and the meeting room. A vaulted cellar takes the same paint, right up to the ceiling.
The subject is decided together. A landscape opens up the far end of a room, a floral or botanical motif runs along a wall, a painted sky fills a ceiling, a perspective trompe-l’oeil draws a window on a solid wall. Giulia also paints figures, animals, lettering, painted signs, and reproduces an existing work when you ask her to.
Possible subjects in Grasse: the cathedral above the roofs, the flower fields and the terraces of the upper town, the ochre facades packed on the slope. And always the trompe-l’oeil window, the botanical motif and the painted sky on a ceiling.
A mural is also called a wall mural, an artistic painting on a wall, a wall decoration. People say mural decoration, decorative painting, trompe-l’oeil, hand-painted wall, drawing on a wall, or a painting made directly on the wall: in every case someone paints the wall by hand, layer after layer. In Grasse, the craft is called mural artist, muralist, wall artist or decorative painter, and it is Giulia Dal Bon’s.
Perfume houses and their shops look for painted decoration that tells the story of the flower and the raw material. The old-town houses instead have stairwells and dark corridors that call for paint.
Giulia also travels to Théoule-sur-Mer, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, Le Cannet, La Gaude, Valbonne, Saint-Jeannet, Opio and Tourrettes-sur-Loup.
Where it can live well
- In an older house, a flat or a villa, Giulia paints the living room, the bedroom, the hallway, the entrance, the stairwell and the ceiling. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48h.
- In a perfume house, a shop, a boutique hotel or a restaurant, Giulia paints the shop wall, the tour room, the shop window and the reception. Free quote within 48h.
- Giulia also travels to Mougins, Cannes, Vence, Valbonne and Antibes.
- Stairwells and dark corridors in the old town houses, where paint brings light into rooms with little of it. From 150 € per sqm.
- Shop interiors and tour rooms for perfume houses, telling the flower and the raw material. Free quote within 48h.