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Skinny at Cersaie 2026: every colour, outdoors too

"Which colours are available?" Our answer is: all of them. With Skinny, shown at Cersaie 2026 in a metallic light blue, we explain our painting for outdoor use.

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One of the questions we are asked most often, and one that any maker of furniture or taps will recognise, is: which finishes and which colours are available? Our answer is: all of them. Every RAL colour, every Pantone and NCS code. With Skinny, at Cersaie 2026, we chose to talk about colour itself, and in the video Alma Simeoli explains why.

Watch the Skinny collection video on YouTube (in Italian, with English audio and subtitles).

One colour among thousands: metallic light blue

Since we can produce any colour, we had to choose just one to represent the collection at the fair. The choice fell on a metallic shade: a pale, luminous blue that changes with the light. It is only one example among the many, truly thousands, of shades we are able to produce. For a project, it means being able to match the taps to a plaster, a fabric or the colour of a façade, rather than adapting the project to the taps.

We have described how to arrive at a shower column in any colour in Can you have a shower column in any colour?.

A paint designed to live outdoors

What you see in the video is a painted finish. Our AISI 316 steel is coated with a paint formulated specifically for outdoor use: its composition is designed to withstand sunlight and the weather, rather like the paints used on cars.

It is a long process that allows no shortcuts: we described it in Two weeks for paint to dry and in the story of The Carnival painters.

The pieces shown at Cersaie

The selection we brought to the fair covers all three areas of the bathroom. For the washbasin, deck-mounted and built-in mixers and a three-hole mixer set. For the bath, a freestanding column. For the shower, a wall-mounted solution with shower arm and hand shower, and the freestanding shower column, in this case with a mixer. A selection designed to show how a single colour can tie together very different elements.

Inside and out, in colour too

Every product in the collection can be installed both indoors and outdoors. The reason is the material: beneath the colour lies AISI 316 stainless steel, marine-grade steel, the outdoor material par excellence. Combined with a paint created to live outside, it allows colour to be taken into the garden or beside the pool, without sacrificing durability.

All models in the series are on the Skinny collection page.

Previous episodes: Boss, Twiggy, Origo and Origo Rame, Community and Spring. Next Thursday: ILLE.

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