Fantini’s Sailing tapware, with its precise lines and subtle maritime influences, anchors the 2025 Bathroom of the Year — a perfect foil to the room’s softly sculpted, enveloping composition.
Often referred to as the jeweller of tapware, Fantini is based on the shores of Lake Orta in northern Italy. Since 1947, the company’s designs have been shaped by a reverence for the water.
“Our history and our daily life are made of water and the lake,” Fantini CEO Daniela Fantini says. “Water is our common thread, a constant and indispensable visual presence, which influences our thoughts and our projects.”
That sense of water as muse resonates deeply in the 2025 Bathroom of the Year in Ōmaha, where Sonya Cotter’s design aligns innovation with artistry.
Here, a Sailing floor-mounted mixer stands beside a generous free-standing Claybrook bath, its clean, elongated silhouette rising like a mast through soft light.
At the vanity, wall-mounted Sailing mixers emerge from travertine, their cleat-like forms a homage to the sea.
Designed by Yabu Pushelberg, the Sailing collection is a poetic reinterpretation of humble maritime instruments: the bollard and the cleat. “Since water is both the birthplace and the spirit of Fantini’s craft, we naturally had to travel to Lake Orta to draw personal inspiration for the design of Sailing,” George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg explain.
“Lake Orta is known for its romantic landscape and serenity. We wanted to recreate the essence of the lake as a tranquil retreat, while paying homage to the boldness of Fantini’s creative vision as a master of faucet making.”
The result is a refined interplay of form and feeling. Sailing tapware, in this context, acts as a sculptural accent, recalling the freedom of untying a boat and setting out across the sea.
Fantini’s Sailing collection is available in New Zealand from Plumbline.
