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For its first collaboration with an American designer, Gessi went to New York. Rockwell Group, David Rockwell’s studio, draws on theater, technology and high-level craftsmanship; Inciso is its first line of bath fittings. The catalog opens on a New York street and one line: “The warm modern style of New York Design.” A claim worth testing in metal, and among designer faucets in solid brass this one largely holds up.
Gian Luca Gessi set the goal as redesigning the bathroom “with American style and Italian flair and know how.” You see it in the profile, which the catalog traces to the formal gestures of early plumbing fixtures: sculpted contours, smooth surfaces against a fine knurl, cross or lever handles. In the bath clients actually use, that pairing is what a guest notices: a New York design language, made in Serravalle Sesia by Gessi to a design by David Rockwell.
The collection follows the house room by room. In the bathroom: lavatory faucets on the deck, on the wall or overhead, with spouts and controls that can stand apart; a bidet mixer; tub fillers for the deck, the floor and the wall; thermostatic shower valves, rain heads and body sprays. In the kitchen: two sink faucets, one with a side spray. Accessories and ceramics round it out. La Mercanti sets the chosen faucet on the drawing, next to the basin your architect has specified.
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Both ways. Gessi lists holders for the soap dish, tumbler, soap dispenser and toilet brush, each either wall-mount or freestanding, with the container in white or in black. The catalog shows white ceramic on a knurled bronze holder. Freestanding pieces suit a vanity with room to spare; wall-mount ones keep a small counter clear, and they are easier to wipe around.
Yes. Inciso includes deck-mount tub sets with a handshower, offered with a spout or without one, and in cross or lever versions. The catalog does not state how many holes they need, so the drilling is checked against the drawing of the chosen set before the tub is ordered. If the tub stands free, the floor-mount filler is the alternative.
Almost everywhere. Gessi labels the two versions “Inciso +” for the cross and “Inciso −” for the lever, and lists both on three-hole lavatory sets, wall-mount faucets, tub sets, the floor-mount filler and the thermostatic valves. The bidet set comes with cross handles. Our advice: pick one for the whole bath, unless the contrast between the two is the point of the room.
Not in Gessi’s words. The catalog says the bathroom fitted with Inciso was “not intended to feel unapproachably minimal, but rather calmly chic and warmingly inviting,” and that Rockwell gave it a warm, modern allure with subtle industrial details. In a stark white room it will stand out; next to wood, stone or dark plaster it settles in.
It is how the catalog states Gessi’s philosophy: to enrich intimate living spaces with beautiful, well-made objects that remain reliably functional. With Inciso that means a solid brass body, sculpted contours and a knurl that the hand finds. A faucet is judged every morning by whoever uses it, so La Mercanti suggests handling the piece before signing off on it.
Inciso gives the lavatory several starting points, on the deck and on the wall, and even supplies the sink itself in metal. These steps put them in order before the vanity is drawn.
The fullest Inciso lavatory setup is the three-hole set: a spout with two handles beside it, in cross or lever. Gessi makes the spout in three heights and offers each set with or without a drain, so the spout height is matched to the depth of the basin on the drawings.
For a simpler deck, Gessi lists a single-handle faucet, drain optional, and a tall version of it, which the catalog pictures in a bronze tone. The catalog does not say which basin each one serves, so the height is checked against the rim of the basin you have chosen.
Wall-mount options come in two forms: a three-piece faucet on escutcheons, with cross or lever, and a single-handle wall faucet. Both leave the vanity top clear; their plumbing goes into the wall before it is tiled, at a height that suits the basin below.
The single-handle wall faucet comes with a spout of 7.4-8.6 in or 9.2-10.4 in. Pick the reach that brings the water over the drain of the basin, measured from the finished wall surface, tile included, rather than from the framing behind it.
Inciso also includes a metal vessel sink, in Brushed Steel, Brushed Warm Steel, Brushed Copper or Brushed Black Metal. For each, Gessi suggests faucet finishes to match, so the basin and the faucet can be specified together as one pair.
