PERLE

Overview

PERLE By Gessi

Manufacture year: 2023

Type: Countertop single handle washbasin mixer

PERLE is a single lever and single hole countertop washbasin mixer.‎ The new PERLE collection, encapsulates the meanings and characteristics of jewelry, which par excellence represents elegance and refinement.‎ Just as the pearl is the most perfect and rare shape in nature, the sphere that punctuates each element of the collection is an emblem of purity and the fruit of profound research.‎ The same research that has led Gessi, through more than two years of studies, to explore the best Made in Italy materials to enhance them in its creations, with the aim of increasingly personalizing and customizing the most important element of the most intimate space of living.‎ And, to exalt these fine materials, it could only be the perfect shape of the pearl: the sphere has conditioned the birth of this new collection that, inspired by the worn jewel pearls, charming and soft, wants to transfer the same tactile and aesthetic pleasure in everyday life, to an ergonomic and functional use.‎  The Haute Culture GESSI approach has led the company’s in-house designers to confront architecture, art, fashion, and craftsmanship in this exercise of utmost of experimentation, translating Italian know-how into a new cultural approach that transmits into the future the high skills that are otherwise in danger of being lost: from the timeless craftsmanship of Murano glass to the manual working of marble, from synthetic materials taken from bijoux and fashion accessories to semi-precious stones, and to the metals proper to the manufacturing industry.‎ The spheres, always different, are enhanced by a real pedestal, also perfectly shaped, inspired by different currents of Italian design: a sculptural form that interacts with the pearl in a game of sections and spherical and hemispherical elements combined with each other in a harmony and balance almost indescribable if not seen and touched in person.‎ Because GESSI in its experimentation always puts the person at the center.‎ The creations of the PERLE collection allow, through endless combinations of unique shapes, colors and finishes, to interpret the personality of the person who inhabits the space at the best, in a path of true tailoring in order to achieve a result that gives well-being to the individual, a tailor-made well-being.‎ The PERLE collection, perfect when you want to personalize the most intimate living environment with details of absolute elegance, is dedicated to people who don’t leave anything to chance.‎ Three material worlds for the spout levers: NATURAL STONES  PERLE: To create the world of natural stone materials, very precious marbles have been selected, such as Emperador Dark, and others even more precious and difficult to work, such as Onyx Cola and Iranian Green Onyx.‎ The precious raw material is worked with a special "made-to-measure" method, unique in the world and exclusive to Italy, the result of unprecedented experiments that reveal the art of shaping the hardness of marble to achieve spectacular effects.‎ The word marble comes from the ancient Greek μαρμαίρω (marmàirō), meaning 'to shine, to sparkle'.‎ The final effect, combined with metal, evokes emotions and tactile sensations, creating a theatrical effect in the bathroom.‎ Semi-precious pearls are one of the best emblems of GESSI's unique approach to each of its creations.‎ MURANO PERLE: The culture of "Made in Italy" know-how, such as the centuries-old skills of Murano's master glassmakers, handed down from generation to generation, is expressed in the pure form of the pearl.‎ The glass beads take the most representative techniques from the history of the island in the Venetian lagoon and reinterpret them in a contemporary key.‎ For example, the "sommerso" technique, which makes it possible to have a spot of colour almost floating inside the glass, the "pulegoso" technique, which incorporates micro-bubbles and infiltrations into the volume, and surface processes such as "battuto" or "molatura", which are reduced in multiple transparencies and nuances.‎ Made entirely by hand by master glassmakers, the balls are unique, true works of art, the result of unprecedented and exclusive solutions.‎ METALLIC PERLE: All of GESSI's experience in metalworking is applied to this element with a pure shape, available in all finishes: polished, brushed or uni-coloured, both shiny and matt.‎ Twelve new finishes are added to all those in the GESSI catalogue, for a total of twenty-six proposals.‎ The superimposition of the elements plays with tone-on-tone surface effects - all glossy, all brushed or matt - or with light effects thanks to the glossy/matt/brushed contrast.‎ Versions and finishes for the "pedestals" For the "pedestals," in addition to the version of the mixer available in three heights, the collection includes a further elaboration of the theme with the three-hole unit, which embellishes the washbasin with a composition that arises from a different overlapping of the solid shapes.‎ Here the sphere is combined with the cone in one of the two controls, while in the other it is divided by overlapping the two halves.‎ The same play is also found in the two-hole wall-mounted mixer.‎ "Pedestal" finishes: Caramel Matt Olive Green Matt Greige Matt Nickel Nickel Brushed Brass Brass Brushed Dark Bronze Copper Brushed Warm Bronze Warm Bronze Brushed Matte Black Chrome Black Metal Black Metal Brushed