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“A jewel lasts longer than a dress.” Gessi tells the story of Anello with that line, a better brief than most product sheets. A dress belongs to a season; a jewel stays. Anello takes the idea at its word: the handle is a thin ring drawn around a disc, resting on a cylindrical body with a fine relief decoration, while the spout runs out straight and then bends. Among taps with a jeweller’s eye, few let you hold the metaphor.
The comparison earns its keep in the finishes. Gessi offers thirteen and presents them, in the catalogue’s words, as an alternative to the metal surfaces we are used to seeing. In our view that, more than the symbolism, is the reason to specify it. In a washroom for visiting clients, where a guest’s hand finds the tap before anything else, the ring is what that hand meets.
Gessi, at Serravalle Sesia, carries the drawing through the bathroom; read it room by room. At the basin: deck and tall mixers, a two-hole version, wall mixers, spouts with a separate or electronic control, a ceiling spout; beside it, a bidet mixer. The bath is fed through the rim, from a floor mixer, or from the wall. In the shower, valves, thermostatics, overhead and side heads, then private wellness. Accessories go on the walls, wall-hung ceramics below them. La Mercanti starts by asking what already sits around the basin, and suggests a finish only after that.
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Anello gives three answers. The sliding rail comes with a built-in water outlet or without one; a cone-shaped holder carries a hand shower with an anti-limescale finish; and there is a complete shower set. Which one goes up depends on whether the hand shower should move up and down the wall or stay put, and the rail with an outlet has to be settled before the tiler starts, because that outlet sits in the wall.
Among the projects Gessi associates with Anello are the Sport- und Genusshotel Silvretta in Ischgl, Villa Osee on Lake Como and Flowing Heights in Rotterdam, in a longer list of addresses. Gessi gives names and places, not room-by-room details, and we pass the list on exactly as that. For a specifier the useful signal is simple: Anello is not only a catalogue page, it has addresses.
Yes. Anello has two rim sets, one for three holes and one for four. The count has to reach whoever makes the bath or the panel around it, since the rim is drilled before installation and cannot easily be changed afterwards. If the rim is too narrow, the collection moves the water elsewhere: a floor-standing mixer beside the bath, or two-way mixers and a spout on the wall.
Yes, in the private wellness range. One Anello shower set holds its hand shower with a magnet; a variant of it comes with a Darkflex hose 1.50 m (59 in) long. Beyond that name and that length, Gessi says nothing more. Measure from where the outlet will be to where the hand shower is actually needed; that distance tells you whether the longer hose is worth specifying.
It does: the collection lists a bidet mixer in the same family as the basin mixers. For a complete wall, the total look adds a ceramic bidet hung on the wall, with overflow and a central hole for the mixer, a matching hung WC and a cover plate. In a guest cloakroom where bidet and WC sit side by side, mixer, ceramics and plate can go on the schedule together and arrive in one finish.
Once the taps are fixed, the rest of the room can follow the same drawing. Five steps through the Anello accessories and ceramics, from the basin top to the WC wall.
Begin with the soap dish, the tumbler holder and the dispenser holder. Anello offers each of them fixed to the wall or simply set down, and in white or black. A narrow counter usually argues for the wall versions; a deep one can take them standing. Pick the colour once, so that the three match.
The piece that repeats the handle most directly is the towel holder shaped as a ring. Placed next to the basin, it reads as part of the same drawing as the mixer. Mark it within reach of the basin on the elevation, and check that a towel hanging from it will not cover a socket or a switch.
Towel rails for the wall are made in 30, 45 or 60 cm (11.8, 17.7 or 23.6 in), and so does the handle with towel rail made for glass. Give each length its stretch of wall or its shower door on the drawings. A 45 cm (17.7 in) grab handle for bath and shower completes the fixed pieces.
Next to the WC, the wall decides the direction of the toilet roll: the roll holder is made for either a horizontal or a vertical fixing. Put the brush holder, wall-mounted or standing, in the same white or black as the basin pieces, then add the robe hook and the white bin.
The total look takes the drawing down to the sanitaryware: a wall-hung ceramic WC of 6 litres with an integrated trap, a ceramic bidet, also hung, with overflow and central tap hole, and a cover plate. Order them together with the bidet mixer and the WC wall is planned in one pass.
