Gessi

Established in 1992 by Umberto Gessi with his son Gian Luca, the company of the same name, which started out in a small workshop, was born as a challenge to a mature sector dominated by historical names; a courageous bet at a time when there seemed to be nothing left to invent in the faucet sector.
Supported by a very clear vision, based on change, innovation and formal and functional research, the Gessi family has followed new business paths and has managed to create in a very short time an industrial reality of primary importance that today stands as a leader. undisputed in the sector for size and innovative capacity with a brand that has become an international reference point for the design and technology of taps. In 1993 the original workshop was in fact abandoned for a modern building in stone and black glass surrounded by greenery in Serravalle Sesia. Born as a production site, this building now houses the commercial offices, conference rooms and the large company showroom. production center with the construction of a very modern low-impact factory, for a covered area of ​​58,550 square meters and in March 2007 it undertook an extension of the building that led to doubling its size in 2010. entire production process have been designed and implemented with special attention to the protection of the environment and the well-being of workers and adopt innovative solutions to achieve these objectives. integrated, within a multifunctional industrial park of over 800 thousand square meters that combines technology, eco-archit Reading and landscaping: the Gessi Park. Since 2006, Gessi has also become a multinational with the establishment of commercial branches in various countries in almost all continents. In addition to receiving numerous awards for the innovative design of its products, Gessi has been nominated Superbrand of Italy in 2008. In the same year he received the prestigious Red Dot Design Award for design in communication.
Innovative spirit, the courage to dare the new and to challenge conventions; Gessi's success begins with a revolutionary idea: to transform a traditional and low-innovation product such as the tap, from the previously known valve into a design object with sophisticated functions and shapes.
The 1996 "Diverso" tap already bore a name evocative of a break with tradition and clichés: this is the spirit that summarizes the entrepreneurial idea that has sanctioned the global success of the company.
The "design tap" conceived by Gessi is a piece of furniture with its own personality capable of a significant contribution of image and style to the environment.
"Sometimes small ideas create big changes.
Could the faucet become a piece of furniture?
Perhaps.
If it will be different "
(Launch claim for Diverso taps)
By overturning the construction practice, the tap from the final and purely functional complement of a room then of pure service, becomes the starting point of the stylistic, design and functional conception of an environment.
This is drawn around the style and position of the faucet itself: "where do I want the water to be delivered from?" this is the question that the company asks itself, paving the way for complete freedom in the design of the bathroom and kitchen plumbing systems, with unprecedented floor, wall and ceiling taps.
Gessi has been committed since the very beginning to respond to the aesthetic aspiration to a general coordination of style in the bathroom and in the kitchen. Whether the shapes of the objects and accessories that populate this environment are square, oval, round, they must in general be harmonized to give the kitchen and bathroom a specific character and personality.
Thus the taps for the bathroom are offered in articulated collections, whose design extends from accessories to washbasins and sanitary ware to create "bathroom environments" whose furnishing elements have the same style and the same characterization of shapes, contours and lines.
The Gessi kitchen faucet has also followed a formal evolution, borrowing refinement in design from the bathroom sector and creative installation solutions such as those for floors and walls. For the kitchen world, Gessi has developed a range of mixing knobs with designs that have become identifying the company, with the idea of ​​coordinating them in an elegant way with the profiles of taps, dispensers, accessories as well as with other kitchen handles, such as those of the furniture or fires.With these innovations, Gessi has creatively revolutionized the traditional vision of previously purely utilitarian environments, transforming them into spaces to be invented and customized.
The constant creative commitment of the company has materialized over time in designs capable of transcending time and fashions. Quadro, Rettangolo, XL, Mimì, Just, Goccia, are the milestones of a path of research and innovation that have become famous design icons all over the world; they have carved in the collective imagination the peculiar stylistic code of Gessi giving the company and the brand an unmistakable character in the world panorama of taps and design.
With the launch of the Quadro line in 1999 and Rettangolo in 2002, the company paved the way for the essential elegance of minimal shapes for taps, thus bringing about a small revolution that is still relevant in the sector. Every Gessi collection reveals a message of timeless elegance and sobriety combined with a typically minimalist stylistic figure and extreme attention to detail.
The inspiring principle of the Gessi Collections is based on the synthetic strength of signs that explore essential and evocative graphic symbols with originality and irony: The square, the oval, the rectangle; these are the "Segni di Gessi", of immediate perception and high communicative power, which give the names to the Gessi collections and which transform everyday objects into small domestic sculptures.
The minimalist concept of Gessi while remaining the most typical stylistic figure of Gessi, has evolved over time, mixing with other styles and adding new lines to the vast selection of exclusive solutions proposed by the company. Goccia of 2010, inspired by the shape of water, and still linked to a "sign" that of the drop, constitutes for Gessi, the first successful experiment in organic design, awarded with various international awards.
Like Goccia, many other Gessi creations have received awards for design and innovation.