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Look at Anello from the side and it is mostly solids and voids. The body is a solid cylinder worked with fine relief; on top sits the handle, a slim circle of metal set around a disc, with air on both sides. Gessi says the collection plays on that alternation, and on the customisation of the decoration, so that it suits “any stylistic solution”. Our claim is smaller: the open ring lightens a body that would otherwise look heavy. It belongs among fittings drawn for architects.
The second contrast is texture. Gessi pairs the decorated band with smooth metal and, describing the two-hole version in Chrome, says the pairing turns the ring of the handle into the distinctive element. In a washroom next to the boardroom, seen at close range, that is where the eye stops.
Gessi, in Serravalle Sesia, carries the idea to whatever a hand reaches. First the handles: the ring on the basin mixers, be it a deck mixer, a wall-mounted one or the separate handle of the two-hole model. Then the controls: remote and electronic ones for the basin, a bidet mixer, rim sets and two-way valves at the bath, thermostatics and ON-OFF buttons in the shower and its private wellness corner. Last, the accessories, from a ring-shaped towel holder to a grab handle, and the ceramics. Thirteen finishes in all. La Mercanti lays the decorated and the smooth surfaces side by side before the finish is chosen.
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The catalogue looks back in time: copper, it says, recalls a material used in interiors since antiquity, and it has come back into fashion in both its polished and its matt versions. Anello offers it as Copper and as Copper Brushed. The catalogue shows it on a tall basin mixer and in a bathroom with a copper-toned basin. Where the washroom has warm stone or timber, it is the finish we would sample first.
Yes. Anello lists a wall-mounted basin mixer offered with two spout lengths, short and long, as well as separate wall spouts in medium or long lengths. In the catalogue the Antique Brass version sits on a rectangular plate, with the ring beside the spout, and a round rose appears in a close-up. The spout length has to match the depth of the basin, so choose the basin before the wall is closed.
Two kinds of fixed piece. A 45 cm grab handle is listed for bath and shower; for glass, Gessi offers a handle with towel bar in 30, 45 or 60 cm, the same lengths as the wall towel bars. Both belong on the drawings early: the grab handle needs a wall prepared to take it, and the glass piece has to be ordered together with the shower enclosure.
As a thin circle set around a small disc, sitting on top of the body. Gessi says the design has the grace of a jewel, recognisable by its circular handle, and the catalogue calls it “a pure figure”. For whoever specifies it, that ring is the reason to choose Anello over a plain lever: the whole design hangs on it.
In the private wellness section. It is a thermostatic mixer for simultaneous functions, built in the form of a shelf, offered for two, three, four or five functions. Next to it Gessi lists the same thermostatics in wall versions. Choose it when the shower wall needs a shelf anyway: control and shelf then become a single object, and the wall stays cleaner.
Anello reaches the bath in several ways: through the rim, from the floor or from the wall. Five steps to put the pieces in order while the bath and its surround are still on paper.
If the bath has a rim wide enough for taps, Anello offers two sets for it, one with three holes and one with four. Tell whoever makes the bath, or the panel around it, which set has been chosen, because the rim must be drilled before installation.
For a bath placed away from the walls, the collection includes a floor-standing mixer. Its supply comes up through the floor beside the bath, so the exact point has to be fixed on the plan before the screed is laid.
When the bath sits against a wall, two-way wall mixers serve it, one of them fitted with an automatic diverter for bath and shower. Whatever is built into the wall must be fixed before tiling begins, so this choice cannot wait for the finishes.
The bath spout for the wall is an item in its own right, to be paired with the chosen control. Spout and control can then each sit where they work best: the spout over the water, the control within easy reach of someone standing beside the bath.
Among the accessories, a 45 cm grab handle is made for bath and shower. It takes the finish of the taps and is worth placing on the drawings now, while the wall behind it can still be prepared to hold it.
