Fantini

For over seventy years Fantini has been designing and manufacturing innovative products that have led the company to be the international point of reference for the evolution of design in its sector. Founded in 1947 by brothers Giovanni and Ersilio, Fantini is still a family business today.

It is located in Pella, on the shores of Lake Orta, a small and romantic lake nestling in the mountains of Piedmont, in the north-west of Italy, where metalworking has a long tradition and where over time districts manufacturing taps and household goods have been established. Water is the common thread that permeates everything the company does, and the lake is a constant presence, so much so that it represents Fantini’s true ‘Genius Loci’. A characteristic of companies, like Fantini, that can be defined as “Manufactories of Italian Design”, is being able to create and build their own precise and unmistakable identity. At Fantini some of the most important Italian and international designers are involved in product design. The result that is characteristic of the company is that of having a wide range of formal and expressive languages, intentionally very different from each other but united by a thin common thread that can be defined as “contemporaneity” and by other more subtle formal characteristics – a certain lightness, a non-trivial elegance, a formal gentleness – that constitute the recognised characteristic of so-called “fantinity”.