Franco Sargiani is responsible for designing Fantini’s Mare and Milano collections.

Born in Modena in 1940, Franco graduated in Architecture from Milan Polytechnics. He started his own firm in Milan after collaborating with Studio Morassutti and participating in numerous courses abroad, especially in Great Britain, Sweden, Finland and Denmark where he came in contact with the most qualified design and production centers in those countries.


Franco has worked in the civil architecture, industrial and interior design field.


Franco has worked in the civil architecture, industrial and interior design fields and develops business images, often in co-operation with Elja Helander. He has been a professor of ‘industrial and visual design’ at Scuola Politecnica e di Design, managed by Nino Di Salvatore, and has collaborated with several companies, such as Alessi, Fantini, Filesp, Fidenza Vetraria, Inda, Emicar and Sipea.


His works are also included in the permanent collections of Triennale in Milan, the Museo de Arte de Sao Paolo in Brazil, the Kunstgewerbemuseum SMPK in Berlin.


His projects have been published in books and specialized magazines, selected for the Compasso d’Oro award, Bio 16 and Design Plus and have also been on display in many museums such as Beabourg in Paris, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Tel Aviv Art Museum, the Applied Art Musum in Helsinki, Kunst Museum in Dusseldorf, and Triennale in Milan. His works are also included in the permanent collections of Triennale in Milan, the Museo de Arte de Sao Paolo in Brazil, the Kunstgewerbemuseum SMPK in Berlin, the Kunstgmuseum in Dusseldorf and the Deutsches Kungenmuseum in Solingen, Germany.


Mare by Franco Sargiani

Clean-cut curves are the unique feature of Mare that creates the soft body shape: a prism on an oval base. It is the geometric figure to which each figurative component leads back in the geometry of this collection. It’s called Mare and Franco Sargiani designed it for Fantini.


Milano by Franco Sargiani

Milano shows a distinguishing outline which gives a far-reaching sense of the bathroom environment which goes beyond the feeling of modern taste and towards a futuristic design. Milano is one of the most important reference products in the world of taps, a contemporary form that has become a classic-modern icon.


Milano is a contemporary form that has become a classic-modern icon.