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Put the spout on the vanity and the control somewhere else: Gessi wrote that choice into Ingranaggio. The collection lists separate controls in a manual version, an electronic one and an electronic version built into the wall. With them come lavatory spouts that stand alone on the deck, medium or high, or leave the wall, medium or long. Faucet and handle become two objects, each placed where the room wants it. At the lavatory, that gives Italian bath faucets a second way to be placed.
Split apart, each piece keeps the drawing of the whole. Gessi describes thin tubular lines for the spout, bent at the end, and a body cut by a low, integrated handle shaped like a toothed wheel, with a two-part lever resting on it; the extra-slim proportions carry to every element. In an executive suite bath, where the control goes becomes a design decision instead of a given.
Gessi, of Serravalle Sesia near Vercelli, gives the lavatory three ways in. On the deck: a faucet with or without drain, tall models with short or long spout, the stand-alone spouts. On the wall: a mixer with short or long spout and the wall spouts. From the ceiling: a spout and an electronic faucet, both in custom lengths. Beyond the vanity: bidet, tub, shower, accessories and wall-hung ceramics, in 13 finishes. La Mercanti first asks where your hand naturally lands beside the basin, then places the control.
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Two families. The two-way wall valves come plain or with a diverter, and the thermostatic wall valves are offered for a single outlet, for two or for three. Around them Gessi lists adjustable showerheads for wall and ceiling, a slide bar and a shower set. The number to settle first is how many outlets the shower will feed: a three-way thermostat and a single-way one are different pieces on the order.
Four of them: Black Metal, Copper, Warm Bronze and Brass, each offered polished and brushed. Chrome, in Gessi’s words, shines with light, while Finox gives an industrial look inspired by stainless steel; Antique Brass, Aged Bronze and Matte Black complete the thirteen. The same color reads differently in the two textures, so it pays to see both versions in the light of the bathroom where they will go.
Gessi describes thin tubular lines that bend at the end and cross into the body. The body is then interrupted by the cut of a low, integrated handle, on which the tubular lever rests, divided in two and marked with a delicate linear decoration. The maker adds that the extra-slim proportions are carried to every element of the collection, from the lavatory to the shower.
Yes. In the Private Wellness pages Gessi lists a thermostatic shelf mixer for simultaneous functions, with ON/OFF push-buttons, in versions from two to five functions. It sits next to the rainfall heads of 13.8 and 19.7 in and the magnetic shower set. Choosing among the versions is a matter of counting the outlets the shower will run at the same time.
Gessi groups three items under the heading total look: a cover plate, a wall-hung ceramic toilet with an integrated siphon and a wall-hung ceramic bidet with an overflow. The plate is listed in several versions in the catalog. The point of the group is that the fixtures around the faucets can come from the same collection, which matters most in a small bath where every surface is in view.
Ingranaggio serves the tub from five positions in the Gessi catalog: on the deck, on the floor, out of the wall, through a two-way valve and as a cascade. Settle them before tiling starts.
Ingranaggio’s deck sets sit on the tub’s rim, in a four-hole version and a three-hole version. Count the holes the tub will take before anything else, since the choice between the two sets comes straight from that count. Both carry the thin tubular lines and the two-part lever seen at the lavatory.
For a tub set in the open, Gessi lists a freestanding bath mixer that rises from the floor. Rim and wall stay untouched, and the filler stands on its own beside the tub, in the same extra-slim proportions Gessi gives every element of the line.
A wall-fixing bath spout is in the range as a piece of its own. With it, the tub’s edge stays clear of fittings and the water comes from the wall behind. Its position on the wall belongs in the drawings early, while the plumbing is still open.
The two-way wall mixers for the tub come in more than one version, and Gessi also lists the external parts of a two-way wall mixer with an automatic bath/shower diverter. The catalog gives the function by name, and that name is exactly what belongs on the fixture schedule for the tub, next to the finish.
The last tub-side piece is a wall-fixing cascade shower spout, listed in the same bath and shower pages. It is the boldest piece on the tub side; built into the wall just as the bath spout is, it needs its place fixed early.
