Already have something in mind?
Trade terms for professionals and design studios
Press the button and the water runs. Press again and it stops. Turn the ring around it and the volume changes. That is the whole manual for the push-button thermostatic shower in Torino. In Fantini’s wording, one control sets the temperature; the other works by pressure for on and off and by rotation of its ring for flow. Plenty of Italian designer faucets look right in a photograph; this one explains itself under running water.
It is a 3/4″ thermostat for two outlets, mounted horizontally; one version puts thermostat and buttons on a single plate. Where the buttons are separate stop valves, each is printed with one of three legends: shower head, hand shower or AUX. Fantini says the Torino shower pieces blend into the wall. In a bath off the corner office, where the person under the head did not pick it, that counts for more than the finish. Francesco Lucchese designed the series; its production is Fantini’s, in Pella by Lake Orta.
Sorted by the control on the wall, the shower side runs from a traditional-cartridge valve, with or without a rotary diverter, through the 1/2″ thermostat to the 3/4″ models; outside the wall stand an exposed mixer and a shower column with its own thermostat. Lavatory, bidet and tub faucets share the design, in seven finishes over brass. La Mercanti asks who uses the shower and how many outlets it feeds before suggesting buttons or a diverter.
Let us know which finishes you'd like to explore
Fantini describes Torino as a balanced design that adapts well to any bathroom style and settles into the room with discretion. The reasoning sits in the shape: a cylinder drawn from archetypal geometry and read in a contemporary way, with soft curves and well-proportioned volumes. For a house or an office with rooms in different styles, one series can carry through all of them.
Three: 23.6, 34.4 and 35.4 in, each with an angle-adjustable slider for the hand shower. The hand shower itself can be the slim FIT or the DISCO with its round grip; ordered as a complete shower set, it also brings the wall outlet, its holder and 59 inches of PVC hose. The slider can be angled, so the spray points where it is wanted.
Fantini gives one routine for the whole series: after each use, rinse with water and finish by drying with a soft cloth. That clears away residue from soaps and body-care products and keeps limescale from building up, which would show most on the dark and matte finishes. When a part ever needs replacing, Fantini asks for original Fantini spares only.
The wall-mount tub spout comes in two reaches, 5.9 or 7.9 in. The in-wall tub mixer offers the same pair, with a rotary two-outlet diverter and a FIT hand shower. Measured from the finished wall, the reach decides where the water lands in the tub, so it is worth checking against the tub rim before ordering. La Mercanti asks for the tub model when this choice comes up.
Both, as separate versions. The concealed mixers with a rotary diverter for two or three outlets are each made for vertical or for horizontal installation, and so is the 1/2″ thermostatic valve with its two-outlet diverter. Some 3/4″ models are horizontal only. The optional Easy Fix plate, with its connections, makes the installation easier for up to three outlets, whichever way the valve runs.
A lavatory faucet is only the visible part. Fantini lists five companions for Torino, from the plate on the toilet wall to the trap under the bowl, and they belong on the same order.
Torino flush plates are steel and show no visible fixings. The Geberit version fits only the Sigma 8 and Sigma 12 cisterns, with round raised or square flush pushers; the TECE version fits only the Tecebox Octa II. Check which carrier is in the wall before the plate goes on the list.
The Idrospray serves personal hygiene and cleaning of the toilet, through an in-wall mixer, a water outlet with spray holder and a 47 in brass hose; it also comes with two handles, cylindrical or lever. The Idroscopino runs cold water only, through a stop valve, on the same 47 in hose.
Some single-hole Torino faucets can be ordered with a drain; for the others it is a separate line. Fantini offers a pop-up drain with a push-down plug and a free-flowing grid drain, both universal, for lavatories with an overflow and for those without one.
Under the bowl, Fantini lists a bottle trap among the accessories of the series. Ordered together with the faucet, it completes what stays visible below the counter, a detail in plain sight under a wall-hung or open vanity.
The last pieces are a pair of filter valves with shut-off and a filter that can be inspected. They sit on the supply lines to the lavatory and give a point where water can be closed for service. Like the trap and the drains, they belong to the accessories Fantini lists for Torino.
