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In the bath and shower pages of Ingranaggio, Gessi lists one piece that changes how water reaches the body: a wall-fixing cascade shower spout. The name says it: a cascade let out of the wall. In our view it is the most theatrical item in the collection and the one to plan earliest, because it sits in the wall, not on a counter. It belongs with the designer washroom fittings chosen with the architect at drawing stage.
Around it stands a collection with one clear drawing. Gessi gives Ingranaggio thin tubular lines, a low handle cut into the body like a toothed wheel and a lever in two parts with a fine linear marking, all kept to extra-slim proportions. In a managing director’s washroom, cascade and basin mixer can come from one family.
Gessi, whose home is Serravalle Sesia in Vercelli province, covers the washroom zone by zone. At the basin: deck, tall, wall and ceiling mixers, with electronic versions and separate controls. By the WC: the bidet mixer, a wall-hung WC and bidet in ceramic, a cover plate. At the bath: rim sets, a floor-standing mixer, a wall spout. In the shower and the private wellness area: thermostatics, rainfall heads, a magnetic shower set. On the walls: accessories. Thirteen finishes run across it all. La Mercanti first asks how the shower wall will be clad, then suggests where the cascade should go.
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The catalogue calls Ingranaggio a symbol of linearity and ergonomics and shows it in two finishes that pull in different directions: Chrome, which in Gessi’s words shines with light, and Finox, which gives an industrial look inspired by stainless steel. The phrase is the maker’s; what a buyer can check is the shape itself, a slim body with a low handle and a two-part lever above it, in polished or brushed surfaces.
Yes. Gessi lists a ceiling-mounted electronic mixer for the washbasin, also in a length on request, next to a non-electronic ceiling spout that can be customised in the same way. The collection also has electronic separate controls, one of them built into the wall. For a ceiling piece the length is the key decision, and it is taken from the real height of the finished ceiling above the basin.
The wall-mounted thermostatic mixers of Ingranaggio are made with one, two or three ways. Alongside them sit two-way wall mixers, with or without a diverter, and in the private wellness range thermostatics with ON-OFF buttons for up to five simultaneous functions. Once the overhead, the hand shower and any side jets are counted, the choice narrows to a single version.
It is a shower set with a magnetic support, listed by Gessi in the private wellness pages. There are two versions: the standard set and one fitted with a Darkflex hose 1.50 m long. The catalogue names the support and the hose; choosing between the two comes down to the hose length the shower layout calls for.
Gessi presents Ingranaggio exactly that way, with numerous variables that can be composed and coordinated. Mixers cover basin, bidet, bath and shower; accessories range from towel rails to a paper roll holder; and the total look adds a cover plate and wall-hung WC and bidet in ceramic. La Mercanti lists the pieces room by room before proposing the set.
Accessories, rails and ceramics complete an Ingranaggio washroom. Five groups from the Gessi catalogue, from the soap holder to the wall-hung WC, to plan once the mixers are chosen.
Ingranaggio offers holders for a soap dispenser, for soap and for a tumbler, each in a wall-mounted and a standing version. Standing pieces suit a generous counter; wall ones keep a narrow ledge clear. Deciding this first fixes how much of the basin top stays free.
The wall towel rails come in 30, 45 and 60 cm, joined by a towel ring and a robe hook. Matching each length to a stretch of wall beside the basin or the shower is simple once the elevations are drawn and measured.
The paper roll holder installs horizontally or vertically, so it adapts to the wall available beside the WC. Nearby go the toilet brush holder, offered in white or in black, and a white waste-paper basket listed with the accessories.
For the bath and the shower enclosure Gessi lists a grip handle 45 cm long. For glass panels there is a handle with towel rail in 30, 45 or 60 cm. Both are fixed elements, so their positions belong on the drawings before the glass and tiles are ordered.
The total look closes the set: a ceramic wall-hung WC with an integrated siphon, a ceramic wall-hung bidet with an overflow and a cover plate. With them, the room is furnished from the same collection down to the sanitaryware.
