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From Small Workshop to Private Wellness
Gessi's revolution was cultural more than technical — it transformed the bathroom from a service room into a regeneration space, where water becomes a vehicle for physical and mental wellbeing. The concept of Private Wellness was born from this vision: multifunctional shower systems with chromotherapy, customisable water jets, integrated audio systems, and controllable lighting — all coordinated into a total sensory experience. "A design to live, to wear and to breathe": the Gessi philosophy brings aesthetic, tactile, and olfactory emotions into dialogue through a catalogue that spans from taps to eco-textiles for the bathroom and ambient fragrances — building environments where every detail bears the same signature.
iF Design Award 2023–2024, Altagamma, and the Haute Culture Line
Gessi's international recognition is certified by the most authoritative awards in the sector. In 2023, the multifunctional digital kitchen system Vita Gessi™ won the iF Design Award in the Product Design / Kitchen category, selected from nearly 11,000 entries from 56 nations. In 2024, the Perle collection won both the iF Design Award and the Best of Year Award from Interior Design Magazine — two of the most respected design prizes in the world, won in the same year with the same product. The Immersiva collection was selected by the ADI Design Index, the Italian design observatory that identifies products nominated for the ADI Compasso d'Oro.
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The Ranges: High-End Bathroom, Kitchen and Wellness
The Gessi catalogue covers every dimension of aquatic living, with customisable systems and an immediately recognisable aesthetic identity:
- Basin mixers and bathroom tapware: mixers for basin, bath, and bidet across dozens of collections and finishes
- Private Wellness – shower systems: columns and multifunctional systems with rain shower heads, lateral jets, chromotherapy, integrated audio systems, and digital temperature control — transforming the bathroom into a private spa
- Haute Culture: Gessi's high-end line, with collections such as Perle and Immersiva, inspired by art and nature — precious materials, handcrafted workmanship, limited edition finishes
- Officine Gessi – kitchen: kitchen tapware and the multifunctional digital system Vita Gessi™ (iF Award 2023), which integrates instant hot, filtered, and chilled water dispensing in a single mixer
- Gessi Outdoor: tapware and shower systems certified for outdoor use, designed for swimming pools, gardens, and open-air wellness areas — with the same aesthetic research and attention to detail as indoor collections
- Eco-textiles and fragrances: bathrobes, towels, and ambient scents that extend the Gessi experience beyond the tap, for all-round sensory wellbeing
FAQ – Gessi: Your Questions, Our Answers
Who founded Gessi and where is the tapware produced?
Gessi was founded in 1992 by Umberto Gessi in Serravalle Sesia, in the Valsesia valley (Piedmont). Starting as a small workshop and a challenge to a sector considered mature, it is today one of the most internationally recognised Italian brands in tapware design.
What is Gessi's Private Wellness?
Private Wellness is the philosophy and product line through which Gessi transforms the domestic bathroom into a genuine private spa. The systems include rain shower heads, customisable lateral and horizontal jets, chromotherapy, integrated audio systems, digital temperature control, and adjustable lighting. The goal is to create a complete sensory experience that engages sight, touch, hearing, and scent.
What awards has Gessi won?
Gessi has won the iF Design Award — one of the world's most authoritative design prizes — for two consecutive years: in 2023 with Vita Gessi™ (multifunctional digital kitchen system) and in 2024 with the Perle collection, selected from nearly 11,000 entries from 72 countries. Perle also won the Best of Year Award from Interior Design Magazine in the same year. The Immersiva collection was selected by the ADI Design Index among the candidates for the ADI Compasso d'Oro.
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