Henrietta Chalk PaintChalk Paint is the versatile furniture paint developed by Annie Sloan in 1990. With no need for sanding or priming, you can simply pop open the tin, roll up your sleeves, dip in your brush and apply paint to furniture. Works on wood, metal, laminate, concrete, indoors, outdoors and beyond. The Grand Tours of the 18th Century brought this color into the finest houses of Europe as part of gentle neoclassical schemes and was combined with other strong