Slide | Salone del Mobile

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FIMA - SLIDE

Every innovative project starts with insight, with production requirements and market needs.

Designed by

Davide Vercelli

Every innovative project starts with insight, with production requirements and market needs. It derives from the ability to look at an object, a mechanism or an everyday behaviour with that special magnifying glass that captures an unprecedented detail or an idea to be transferred from the context and be perceived by the viewer.

Davide Vercelli knows this well and yet again, he manages to amaze by signing the design of Slide, the new collection of taps presented by FIMA on the occasion of Salone del Mobile. It starts with actions, with the way of interacting not with the tap but with the surfaces in general.

Touch and surfaces have become the key elements around which the Slide project revolves. The material is stainless steel, already used in the OUTDOOR collections, which becomes a determining factor for FIMA for the green philosophy that guides business choices and processes.

Offering the series exclusively in a brushed version also becomes an opportunity to promote the new PVD, gold, champagne and bronze finishes that warm the clean lines of Slide while maintaining the strongly technological and rational image of the product.

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“The first contact with an object is a pressure, applied by the fingers,” explains Davide, “when we do not know, we touch, we press on the surface – an elementary and natural movement.”

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The handle is the true heart of the collection and, in particular, the inclined plane that divides it into two parts to create a fulcrum of both mechanical and expressive value. And it is along this plane that the upper portion of Slide runs, comes out of the rotation axis of the tap and magically turns on the water.

With just a little pressure of the fingers to slide the control, an unconventional yet intuitive and curious touch that spurs an immediate interaction with the object. To adjust the flow, press downwards or else towards the wall for the recessed products.

The inclined surface becomes the leitmotif of the product also from an aesthetic point of view, almost a decoration highlighted by a groove that runs around the control and is found in all elements of the collection.

Slide offers a wide range of items for the washbasin area, with single-hole deck mounted, three holes and wall-mounted versions, in the shower/ bath area multiple choices that can be combined with the different versions of FIMABOXES units with matching shower heads and hand shower supports and with the same design inspiration, the accessories, to create a total look bathroom.

But what if they were made of different materials? They could exist on a reciprocal connection, giving each time new nuances and meanings to stainless steel.

A glamorous and exclusive touch that softens the cleanest and most technological characteristics of the collection. In combination with marble, steel creates sophisticated, immutable and timeless surfaces. A collection of tailor-made handles able to give infinite different identities to Slide.

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