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Before Torino goes on a washbasin, the countertop has to meet one figure. The hole for a basin or bidet mixer must measure between 33.5 and 35 mm across, and Fantini adds that the base ring is to be used every time. That is the whole requirement, and the one most easily missed when architectural bath fittings are specified from a catalogue for a stone top that was drilled for something else.
On that hole stands a body Fantini describes as a pure, decisive cylinder, with a flat, tapered handle joining it with continuity; the deck models connect through flexible supply hoses. We would measure the existing hole before discussing anything else, because in a director’s private washroom a mixer sitting off-true is noticed by every visitor. Francesco Lucchese drew Torino; Fantini makes it at Pella, on Lake Orta.
Water point by water point, the basin has single-hole mixers of three statures, a two-hole model, a wall mixer and a separate spout with its own deck control; the bidet a single-hole mixer whose aerator swivels; the shower concealed and exposed mixers, thermostats and a shower column; and the bath pieces for wall, rim or floor, all in seven finishes over brass, from chrome to Mokka PVD. La Mercanti checks the hole in the existing countertop before proposing a model.
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Yes, two routes. The exposed shower mixer is fixed on the wall and supplied without a shower set, so overhead and hand shower are chosen separately. The shower column goes further and brings everything at once: its thermostat sits outside the wall, a two-way diverter that also shuts the water sits beside it, and above them a 25 cm overhead shower, plus a hand shower on a hose one and a half metres long.
Because that is the image Fantini builds the series on. The catalogue describes a cylinder of pure, decisive and marked form, inspired by archetypal geometric elements read in a contemporary key. Spout and flat handle join it with continuity, in calibrated proportions. For a project with many washbasins, it gives every fitting the same recognisable outline.
The two-hole basin mixer projects 18.5 cm, the longest reach among the counter-mounted basin models and the same as the separate deck spout. The single-hole model stays at 12 cm, the mid-height and tall ones at 14.5 cm. The figure is worth holding against the depth of the bowl and the position of its drain before the counter is cut.
The plates are steel and fix without visible screws. For Geberit they fit only Sigma 8 or 12, the buttons either round and proud of the plate or square and level with it; for TECE they fit only the Tecebox Octa II. The cistern already in the wall therefore decides which plate can be ordered. La Mercanti asks for the cistern model when the plate is specified.
It is a single-hole mixer with a spout of 10.5 cm and an aerator on a swivel joint, so the jet can be angled. It comes with or without a waste, and, as on the washbasin, its aerator caps the flow at 5 l/min with 3 bar in the pipes. Beside the WC the series adds the Idrospray and the Idroscopino, each on a 120 cm brass hose.
A Torino shower is completed with an overhead shower, an arm, a hand shower and often a rail. Five steps, each resting on a figure Fantini gives, to put the set together.
The most generous overhead shower listed for Torino is the Acquafit, in stainless steel, with 240 anti-limescale nozzles and rain concentrated at the centre. Fantini rates it at 14 l/min with 3 bar of pressure, and it wants no less than 12 l/min to perform, a figure to confirm with the plumber.
Other overhead showers come in ABS, in brass or in steel, with limiters of 12 or 9 l/min at 3 bar and a minimum flow of 10 l/min. An adjustable head for the wall completes the choice, also limited to 12 l/min. All share an anti-limescale system and a non-return valve.
From the wall, the arm can reach 30, 35, 40 or 45 cm; from the ceiling it drops 10, 25 or 45 cm, always finished with a round rose. For plasterboard walls Fantini offers an optional concealed part. The arm length sets how far the water falls from the wall, so it is chosen with the shower layout in hand.
The FIT is slim, in brass or steel, at 9 l/min. The DISCO is ABS with a round grip, 10 or 13 cm across in the shower set, delivering up to 12 l/min; one version offers three sprays, rain, tonic jet and massage, and another has a black front insert.
Slide rails come in 60, 87.5 and 90 cm, each with a slider that can be angled. Ordered as a complete set, the hand shower also gets its wall outlet and holder, joined by 150 cm of PVC hose.
