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Fantini’s own page on Mint passes over the usual drama and calls the look of the collection “reassuring”. A demanding promise for a tap: an object only reassures when nothing about it needs explaining. Angeletti & Ruzza, who designed it, keep to primary forms set out along horizontal and vertical lines. The evidence is in the handling: a single lever mixes hot and cold at the basin, the flow there and at the bidet is held to 5 l/min at 3 bar, and the bodies built into the wall are soundproofed. That, to our mind, is what the word asks of a tap: no surprises at the first turn.
Anyone shortlisting designer taps for a client will meet the collection at the basin first. There the single-hole mixer is joined by a tall version, by a wall-mounted one projecting 14 or 19 cm (5.5 or 7.5 in) from rosettes or a plate, and by a column fixed to the floor. Under every finish the metal is brass, and the finishes number six: Chrome, Matt Black and four PVD colours, from Matt Gun Metal to Deep Black. Specified for an executive bathroom, the range brings wastes, a square bottle trap and flush plates for Geberit and TECE.
Beyond the basin, the pieces can be read by how much water they deliver. Least at the bidet: a mixer with a swivel aerator and, beside the WC, two hand sprays, Hydrospray and Hydrobrush. More in the shower, where concealed mixers serve up to three outlets, thermostatic valves answer to push-buttons or to a rotary diverter, and the square heads go up to 30 × 30 cm (11.8 in a side). Most at the bath: a concealed mixer with its own spout, a set for the rim on four or five holes, a floor-standing filler and a wall spout. La Mercanti asks what the room is for before proposing which pieces of the range it needs.
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The standard single-hole mixer, article F004, has a spout projection of 12.5 cm (4.9 in), as given in Fantini’s technical manual. It is the shorter of the two deck-mounted lengths and can be ordered with a pop-up waste or without one.
Only the reach. Article F003 keeps the single-lever body and takes the spout out to 16.5 cm (6.5 in), measured as projection in Fantini’s technical manual. Like the standard length, it is listed with and without a pop-up waste.
No, it is optional: a mounting plate with its fittings already in place, used to install the thermostatic valves horizontally or vertically. Fantini lists it in versions for one, two or three outlets, so the plate is chosen to match the valve. La Mercanti adds it to the shower list when the installer asks for it.
Yes. Fantini’s technical manual lists side jets for the wall, made in brass, whose spray can be angled. They are separate items, so each jet is entered on the order as its own line and its place is agreed on the shower drawing before the wall is closed.
Yes: the range lists a wall-mounted bath spout with a projection of 20 cm (7.9 in), entered in the manual as an item of its own. La Mercanti marks its position on the bath drawing with the architect before first fix.
Fantini’s installation sheet for Mint gives the pressures and temperatures the mixers are made for. Five checks to make on site before the order is placed.
The instructions give a minimum of 1 bar and a maximum of 10 bar, with 2-5 bar recommended. Ask the installer for the figure measured at the wall where the mixer will go, not the one at the meter.
Fantini allows a difference of no more than 1.5 bar between the hot and the cold feed. In a house with a tank in the loft and mains cold, that gap is worth having in writing before anything is ordered.
The mixers can be used with pressurised hot-water storage and with instantaneous water heaters: both are named in the instructions. Tell the installer which of the two the building has.
The recommended temperature at the inlet is 65 °C and the maximum is 80 °C. Have the installer check what the cylinder is set to before the mixer is connected.
The data sheet for the single-hole F004WF plots flow against pressure: 2.27 l/min at 0.5 bar, 3.16 at 1 bar, 4.43 at 2 bar, 5.27 at 3 bar and 5.71 at 4 bar. Find your own pressure on that curve.
