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Gessi’s own description of Anello begins with geometry: “perfection and purity of the circle.” A slim ring surrounds a small disc at the top of the faucet body, and that ring is the handle. Gessi calls it “an emblem of infinity, protection, and love,” which is a lot to ask of a faucet. What anyone can check is plainer: the figure really is a circle, and the eye finds it first. Among faucets built around one shape, few commit to it this completely.
Below the ring the body is a cylinder carrying a fine relief decoration next to smooth metal, and the spout leaves it in a straight line, then drops. Gessi places the line in “a personal and intimate environment of the home,” inside “a closed circle of peace and well-being.” For an executive’s private bath, that is the right register.
Made by Gessi in Serravalle Sesia, Anello follows every point where water arrives. The lavatory gets deck, tall, two-hole, wall and ceiling versions, plus spouts with remote or electronic controls. The bidet has its own mixer. The tub is served from the rim, the floor or the wall. The shower takes valves, thermostats, heads from above and from the side, and the private wellness pieces. Accessories and ceramics complete the room; all of it comes in thirteen finishes. La Mercanti asks who uses the bath every day and who only visits, before anything is specified.
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Group them first. Four metals come twice, polished and brushed, so picking Copper or Brass is really two decisions in one. The rest stand alone, from Chrome to darker choices like Matte Black. Gessi pitches the whole range as an alternative to the metal surfaces people are used to seeing. In practice the room’s stone and wood cut thirteen down to two or three quickly; compare those under the bathroom’s own lighting, not a showroom’s.
Gessi gives it more than one home. A medium lavatory spout, also offered high, works with a remote control on the deck; a one-way wall control serves the lavatory or the shower; electronic remote controls come for the deck or the wall. The spout can sit where the water should fall and the control where the hand reaches easily, so mark both on the drawings before the counter is drilled.
The ones that sit by the lavatory and the toilet. The soap dish, the tumbler holder and the soap dispenser holder each mount on the wall or stand on the counter, and the toilet brush holder does the same; all four are offered in white or black. The wastebasket comes in white. Pick one of the two colors for the whole bathroom: mixing them tends to read as an accident rather than a choice.
Yes. One of the two-way wall valves Gessi lists for the tub carries an automatic diverter between bath and shower. Its name is all the catalog states; how it switches from spout to hand shower belongs to that item’s technical documentation, not to guesswork. On the fixture schedule the full name matters: it is a different piece from the plain two-way valve next to it.
Contrast is the point. On the two-hole version in Chrome, the catalog describes a slender, supple body where the ring of the handle becomes the distinctive element “thanks to the combination of the decoration and the smooth surface of the body.” Seen from the side, the decoration is a fine relief worked into the cylinder. Against a mirror-like Chrome the two textures are easy to tell apart, which is worth knowing before you settle on a finish.
Anello’s private wellness pieces turn the shower into a short list of decisions: controls, functions, heads and the hand shower. Five steps through what Gessi offers, to settle before the wall is closed.
List every outlet the Anello shower will have: overhead, hand shower, side sprays. Gessi’s push-button controls handle one, two or three functions, and the thermostats that run functions at once go from two up to five. That count, more than taste, picks the control you need.
For one to three functions, the ON-OFF push button comes either on a thermostatic control or on a single-handle one. The catalog lists both versions. Which one suits is for the person who will use the shower every day to say, worked out with the plumber who knows the supply lines.
Among the thermostats for simultaneous functions, Gessi offers one built as a shelf, again for two to five functions. It gives the shower wall a ledge as well as a control, so decide early whether a shelf belongs in that spot of the layout or whether a niche is already planned.
Rain heads come in 13.8 in or 19.7 in diameter, in single-function or multifunction versions, recessed or exposed. The larger head needs a ceiling or wall area to match, and a recessed one has to be framed in, so check the drawings and the ceiling height before choosing.
The private wellness shower set holds the hand shower on a magnetic support, and one version comes with a 59 in Darkflex hose. Measure from the outlet to the spot where the hand shower will actually be used; that distance tells you which of the two sets to order.
