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Fantini sums up the push-button thermostatic of the Nostromo shower in three words: “within easy reach”. A press switches each shower function on or off, a light turn of the ring regulates the flow, and the temperature keeps a control of its own. The catalogue adds that the round buttons, in a regular row, become a decorative sequence. On a wall of designer bath fittings, that is the quality we look for first: controls that read as clearly as they work.
Two layouts exist: a single plate integrating thermostat and buttons for two outlets, or the thermostat alone with a push-button stop valve per outlet, screen-printed for overhead shower, hand shower or AUX. Fantini fits this thermostatic to several series. Nostromo itself is a Davide Mercatali design, built in Pella, by Lake Orta. In an executive suite washroom, the buttons and a slim hand shower may be all that shows on the tiles.
Elsewhere the vocabulary holds: washbasin mixers in several heights and installations, electronic ones included, a bidet range, bath fillers from wall, rim or floor, and three single-hole kitchen mixers. Eleven finishes serve most of the bathroom pieces, ten on brass, the eleventh brushed stainless steel; Nostromo Small repeats the design in slimmer proportions for basin and bidet. La Mercanti asks how many outlets the shower will have before suggesting the single plate or separate buttons.
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AISI 316/316L, in a brushed finish. Fantini calls steel an excellent material: long-lasting for its robustness, highly resistant to corrosion from external agents, ecological and recyclable. The catalogue shows Nostromo Stainless Steel in settings of light tones and natural materials, and says it adds value and quality to the bathroom project; of Nostromo Small in steel, Fantini writes that it is visually discreet. For a specifier, this is the one finish of the eleven named after its base metal, so the grade belongs in the schedule.
Because Nostromo appears in several interpretations: a basin spout with a remote control, a ceiling spout with a wall mixer, a wall-mounted basin mixer. Across all of them, the catalogue says, the series sets out an abacus of essential geometric signs in which proportions, forms and volumes stay in balance. In practice an architect can change the installation from one washroom to the next, counter in one, wall or ceiling in another, and the drawing keeps the same language throughout.
A column with a spout projecting 20.1 cm, a FIT hand shower, and a second handle that opens and closes the hand shower while setting its flow and temperature. The catalogue presents it in Matt British Gold beside a round white bath and speaks of the soft, delicate colours of the PVD finishes as a cue for wellness settings. As the mixer stands free on the floor, its position is fixed with the bath on the plan, before the floor is laid.
Yes. The control can be a deck mixer on its own or a concealed wall mixer with one outlet, paired with a spout on the deck (13.5, 28 or 50 cm high), on the wall (15, 20 or 25 cm), on the floor (24 cm) or from the ceiling, 140 cm long. Nostromo Small has its version too, with deck spouts of 28 or 50 cm and wall spouts of 15 or 20 cm; Fantini describes its control as separate yet coherent with the spout. La Mercanti marks both points on the washroom plan.
There is, with a 13 cm projection, and it comes in a tall version as well. Its finishes are Chrome and five PVD shades: Deep Black, Mokka, Matt Copper, Matt Gun Metal and Matt British Gold. On the bidet the same idea appears as a single-hole mixer with a swivel spout of 11.5 cm. If the washroom is planned in white, black or one of the other PVD colours, the swivelling model should be checked against that choice first.
The electronic Nostromo mixers open and close the water by sensor, and each one draws its energy from somewhere. Five steps from the batteries in the box to the kit for the electrical panel.
The single-hole electronic Nostromo, with an 11.5 cm projection and a progressive cartridge, is supplied with four 1.5 V AA alkaline batteries and works as delivered. The 20 cm wall-mounted model with a handle can also run on batteries. Note which of the two is planned before anything else is drawn.
Where mains power is preferred, Fantini offers an optional kit. The first version is an external power supply with a plug for a 220-230 V socket. The socket then has a place on the drawing, and the electrician should learn its position when the plumber learns where the basin goes.
The second kit mounts on a DIN rail inside the electrical panel and reaches the mixer through a 180 cm cable. That length is the figure to check on the drawing, because the route from the panel to the basin has to fit within it. Mark it on the plan before the walls are closed.
The wall-mounted electronic mixer with an integrated laser sensor works on a power supply in every case. For this model, one of the two kits is part of the order from the first day, together with the 20 cm projection of its spout over the bowl.
The electronic wall spout, 20 cm long with an integrated laser sensor, delivers the water while its temperature is regulated by a thermostat that is ordered separately. Two items therefore go on the schedule for one water point: the spout and the thermostat that serves it.
