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A collection meant for a private residence and a hotel alike needs range more than rhetoric. Gessi says it plainly: Inciso is highly customisable, fully flexible and suitable for many environments, “both residential and hospitality”. The range bears it out, from a single basin mixer to a ceiling spout and rainfall heads. Among fittings for hotels and homes that breadth is rarer than it sounds.
The two settings ask different things of the same tap. At home, the brief is the catalogue’s wish for a bathroom “calmly chic and warmingly inviting”; in a hotel, it is one look across many rooms. David Rockwell drew Inciso with Rockwell Group, his New York studio, and Gessi produces it in Serravalle Sesia; the two handle versions and the finish list let it serve both. In the washroom visitors use, we would fix one handle and one finish for every point of water.
Read the family by where each piece is fixed. On the counter: three-hole and single-lever basin mixers, separate spouts, the bidet mixer, bath rim groups. On the wall: basin and bath mixers, shower thermostatics, side jets, cascade spouts. On the floor, a bath mixer; overhead, a basin spout and shower heads; for the kitchen, a pair of sink mixers. Accessories and ceramics complete it. La Mercanti goes through the guest washroom drawing with the client, one point of water at a time.
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Two in the shower range, Ø 200 and Ø 300 mm, for wall or ceiling mounting; the ceiling arm can be made to length between 105 and 1,855 mm. The larger rainfall heads, Ø 350 and Ø 500 mm, belong to Gessi’s private wellness pieces. In our view the 300 mm head is the natural choice for a generous enclosure, while 200 mm keeps a compact shower in proportion.
Eleven in the catalogue’s list, plus others on request. Three are blacks: Black XL, Black Metal and Black Metal Brushed. Six are warm metals: Aged Bronze, Antique Brass, Gold, Brass Brushed, Copper and Copper Brushed. Chrome and Finox complete it. On a project with many rooms, fixing one finish code early saves a long correspondence later.
Gessi’s list is wide. Close to this region it names the Desert Rock Resort and the Shebara Resort, both on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, and The Veil in Astana. Further away come addresses in New York, Madrid and Kyoto. These are projects Gessi lists with Inciso; the list gives name and place, and we add nothing to it.
Yes: Gessi offers the three-hole groups with the spout in three heights, each with cross or lever handles, with or without waste. The catalogue does not give those heights in figures, so they are read on the drawing of each group. The right one depends on the basin: the spout has to clear the rim and reach the water to the centre of the bowl.
Yes, a floor-standing bath mixer with hand shower, with cross or lever handles; the catalogue shows it in bronze beside the tub. Its supply point is fixed in the floor slab, so its position is agreed on the layout before the flooring goes down. La Mercanti marks that point on the bathroom drawing with the client.
Inciso can separate the spout from its control at the basin, on the counter or from the ceiling. Five steps to place both pieces before the vanity and the wall are finished.
With Inciso, the control of a separate spout can sit on the counter or on the wall. Fix this first: a wall control leaves the counter clear and needs the wall open for plumbing, a counter control keeps everything within the vanity. The rest of the planning follows from this choice.
Gessi makes the separate counter spout in three heights: 59, 139 or 212 mm. Measure from the counter to the rim of the chosen basin and pick the height that clears it with some margin, so the water lands inside the bowl and not on its edge.
The collection also has a spout that comes down from the ceiling over the basin. It suits a basin standing free of the wall, or a room where the counter should stay completely empty. The catalogue shows it in copper, with its own knurled control beside the basin.
The ceiling spout can be made to length, from 150 to 1,900 mm. The figure is taken on site, from the finished ceiling to the point above the bowl where the water should start, after any false ceiling has been built, since the piece is produced to that length.
Spout and control are separate objects, so the finish is specified for each of them. Choose one from the eleven listed, or one of those available on request, and write it on both lines of the schedule, so the two pieces arrive matching.
