Giovanni and Ersilio Fantini establish the company.
The colourful I Balocchi series, designed by Davide Mercatali and Paolo Pedrizzetti, is presented to the market destined to become the company’s icon and first best seller. I Balocchi introduce colour in the taps world and are selected for the XI edition of the Compasso d'Oro award in 1979.
go to I Balocchi...Calibro, designed by Davide Mercatali and Paolo Pedrizzetti, is awarded the "menzione d'onore" in the XII Selection of Compasso d’Oro and in 1982 is added to the MoMA permanent collection in New York.

Daniela Fantini, the company’s current President and Executive Director, enters the family business.

Luigi Fantini, now Executive Director, enters the family business.
Manovella, the new two-handle collection designed by Enzo Mari.
Stilo and Sfera the innovative mixer tap designed by Franco Sargiani, go into production and become the company’s second best-seller.
The collaboration with the Studio Lissoni and GraphX firms begin. They will take care of the corporate graphic image and exhibition stands layouts.
2002 The company’s new creative concept for showers begins with ‘Zen’, designed by Franco Sargiani, followed by Acquatonica (2004), Acquapura (2007), Acqua Zone (2011), Milanoslim (2014), Acquadolce (2015).

ISO 9001:2008 Certification.
Aboutwater is born from a partnership with Boffi, with two taps collections designed by Piero Lissoni and Naoto Fukasawa.

Fantini taps are certified ‘lead free’, in compliance with USA standards, the most advanced international consumer safeguarding standards.

Acquapura, designed by Franco Sargiani, receives an Honourable Mention at the ADI Compasso d’Oro Awards.
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The Corporate Social responsibility project 100 Fontane: Fantini for Africa takes its first steps toward the building of an aqueduct in the Masango district of Burundi.
The company introduces the Stainless Steel catalogue, realising in this material also one of its most successful collections.
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Levante, designed by Rodolfo Dordoni, receives an Honourable Mention at the ADI Compasso d’Oro awards.

An understanding is reached with the CNR Ecosystems Research Institute in Verbania to sustain the S.A.I.L.I.N.G. intensive monitoring project for Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta

The 100 Fontane project is selected for the ADI INDEX.
Vincent Van Duysen designs Icona and Icona Déco, rethinking the classic icon of the tap with a modern take.
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Franco Sargiani designs Acquadolce, the collection of multifunction showers offering the highest multi-sensorial and environmental comfort
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Paik Sun Kim designs AK/25 for the Aboutwater collection, stading out for its essentiality, purity and modernity
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The partnership with Salvatori gives birth to the Fontane Bianche collection by Elisa Ossino
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Opening of the Moscow Showroom, OVCHINNIKOVSKAYA NAB.22/24 bldg2, 115035 Moscow Russia
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Thanks to an idea of Daniela Fantini, Casa Fantini Lake Time opens its doors in Pella, on the shores of Lake Orta. A 5-star hotel designed by Arch. Piero Lissoni as a fully-fledged Casa, home, perfectly taking on the spirit of kind hospitality of the company
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Fantini is included into Altagamma, the prominet Foundation of Italian businesses from the high-end cultural and creative industry, worldwide ambassadors of the Made in Italy
Go to Altagamma...AK/25 from the Aboutwater collection designed by Paik Sun Kim is selected by ADI Index to take part in the Compasso d’Oro (Golden Compass) Award
The new headquarters are inaugurated with the enlargement of the lakefront factory. A project by Architect Piero Lissoni, it is praised by the international press as a perfect example of integration between natural setting and industrial architecture