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Gessi’s catalogue says Ingranaggio was conceived as a watchmaking jewel, like a key that sets a high-precision mechanism turning. Big words for a basin mixer. The body is slender; the spout is a thin tube that bends at its tip and meets the body; low down, the handle is cut into it, forged in the shape of a toothed wheel. On it rests the tubular lever, made in two parts and marked with a fine linear decoration. Few Italian bathroom taps carry their metaphor this literally.
The comparison survives a closer look. Gessi speaks of a lever that seems to lean on the body while staying suspended, and of extra-slim proportions repeated on every element; both can be checked by eye. That counts for most in an executive suite washroom, where the tap is seen up close and nothing else competes.
Gessi, based at Serravalle Sesia near Vercelli, extends the drawing across the room; the family reads best by fixing. Counter and rim take basin mixers with or without waste, tall models, a bidet mixer and two bath sets. A filler stands free on the floor. The wall carries basin mixers and spouts, bath and shower mixers, showerheads, accessories. From the ceiling: a basin spout, an electronic tap and overhead showers, some to a custom length. Thirteen finishes. La Mercanti first asks whether the basin should take its water from the counter, the wall or the ceiling, and only then proposes a model.
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Gessi calls Black Metal Brushed a smooth, tactile finish and says it is treated to ensure that its colour is maintained. That is the maker’s own statement, and we pass it on as such. In the catalogue images it dresses the tall basin mixer against a blue wall. It is one of four metals offered both polished and brushed, so Black Metal is its glossy twin: worth holding the two blacks side by side before deciding.
Yes. In the bath and shower pages of its list Gessi includes a wall-fixing cascade shower spout, alongside the wall bath spout and the two-way wall mixers. The catalogue names it and places it on the wall; how it pours is best seen with the plumber and the maker, never guessed. For planning, the useful point is simple: the shower wall can take a cascade from the same collection as the basin.
It depends on the family. In the Private Wellness section, thermostatic and single-lever mixers with an ON-OFF push-button come for one, two or three functions. Thermostatic mixers for simultaneous functions, with ON-OFF buttons, run from two up to five, and the same range exists as a shelf mixer. Count the outlets the shower will have first; the right control follows from that number.
Gessi lists the Ingranaggio paper roll holder for horizontal or vertical installation, so the orientation can follow the wall rather than the other way round. It sits in a wider set of accessories: a robe hook, a towel ring, towel rails in three lengths, a toilet brush holder in white or black and a white waste-paper basket. In a small cloakroom that choice of orientation is often what makes the layout work.
Three pieces in the catalogue are made for it: a lateral body jet, a lateral nebuliser and an adjustable lateral body jet, the last one also listed as external parts. They join the overhead heads, the sliding rail and the shower set in the same pages. The number and placement of side outlets is something to settle with the installer once the wall is drawn.
Ingranaggio reaches the basin from the counter, the wall or the ceiling, with the control on the body or set apart. Five arrangements from the Gessi catalogue, worth settling before the basin is fixed.
The simplest Ingranaggio arrangement is the deck-mounted basin mixer, listed with a waste or without one. One body carries everything: the thin spout bending at its tip, the handle cut low like a toothed wheel, the two-part lever on top. If the waste is to be chosen separately, the version without it is the one to put on the list.
For a taller presence Gessi offers a high basin mixer in two forms, one with a short spout and one with a long spout, each again with or without waste. In the catalogue images the tall model stands in Black Metal Brushed against a blue wall. Which spout suits is a question for the basin itself, answered with it in front of you.
The wall-mounted mixer, listed as external parts, has a short or a long spout and leaves the counter clear. Gessi presents it as right for basins of decidedly important proportions and credits it with a clean and tidy look. A wall spout on its own, medium or long, is also in the range.
Separate basin spouts, medium or high, work with the remote controls of the collection. Gessi lists those controls in a manual version, an electronic one and an electronic one built into the wall. Before the counter is drilled, decide where the hand should go to look for the control, because that position is now a free choice.
A ceiling spout drops to the basin, also with a length made to order, and an electronic ceiling tap comes the same way. Gessi calls the ceiling installation scenic, a way of telling the story of water, and points to the knob that takes up the vertical line of the spout.
