Can we do it ourselves? Do we need an expert plumber? Let’s find out together.

Masonry brackets

In order to install wall-hung sanitaryware, the first step is to place the brackets. Sanitary ware doesn’t magically stay up, not yet unfortunately.

There are many brackets out there, but we always suggest choosing a combination of brackets and cistern. This product is created by Geberit and is called Combifix.

Combifix is a module designed to facilitate the installation of wall-hung sanitary ware, as in one product you get the brackets and cistern for your toilet.

The product must be walled into your chosen wall. This is the most delicate moment of an installation and is generally followed by professionals to avoid serious mistakes. We always recommend that you are followed by an expert to ensure an optimal result.

But if you really want to proceed independently, let’s see how to do it calmly. First of all, check what kind of wall you have at your disposal. If it is not masonry but plasterboard, you must opt for a combination of brackets and self-supporting box. This type will rest directly on the floor, supporting everything.

Alternatively, you can have a supporting wall built, but this may take up valuable space.

If, on the other hand, you have a beautiful masonry wall, you can demolish it slightly to make room for the combifix cassette. The combifix cistern will come with all the instructions and everything you need for installation and fixing.

Make sure that you fix it carefully and level. If all goes well, you will have a support that can hold up to 400 kilograms, which is more than enough for your wall-hung sanitaryware.

Installing wall-hung sanitaryware

Once your cistern is bricked up, you need to tile it, leaving space only for the drains and threaded screws on which the sanitaryware will be installed.

During installation, the sanitary ware is generally supplied with the necessary accessories, namely the screws for fixing it to the brackets.

We also recommend adding a protective layer between the ceramic and the tiles. This layer can be made of so-called anti-noise membranes, which you can find in our shop. These will help to reduce the noise and especially the friction between the two ceramics, which could, in the long run, damage the sanitary ware or the tiles.

Pantone and the colours

Before delving into the reasons behind this choice, it is worth asking what Pantone is exactly and why it has the power to define the colour of the year.

Let’s start from the premise that the definition has no legal character, if we can call it that, but it is a guideline, a direction. And the world is in desperate need of guidelines.

Pantone was founded in the early 1960s in New Jersey and immediately defined a colour classification standard, the so-called Pantone Matching System.

Since then, colours have found a home, a guide by which to be classified without question, and it still remains one of the main tools for classifying colours.

Pantone colour 2021: reasons for choice

Behind this year’s choice there is not only the search for the style that will define the time in front of us, but the desire to find an answer to the historical moment we are living.

Ultimate Gray is an important, clear-cut shade that imposes itself on those who look at it and communicates a sense of strength and stability. Qualities that we all seek more than ever in the society that surrounds us.

Illuminating, on the other hand, is a colour in stark contrast to its companion. A brilliant, bright, almost warm yellow. It reminds us what else we need in this 2021.

This pair chosen as the Pantone 2021 colour seems to want to communicate that innovation and hope always have a solid foundation. They must always be rooted in fertile soil if they are to stand out in the future.

Characteristics of the best wall-hung sanitaryware

Wall-hung sanitaryware, as its name suggests, is characterised by a suspended installation. These WCs and bidets are anchored to the wall by a system of steel brackets, which have been tried and tested for years.

The innovative mechanism allows the sanitary ware to be lifted from the floor in complete safety, with numerous aesthetic and functional repercussions.

The suspended installation gives you a more airy bathroom environment, increasing not only the physical but also the optical space available. The floor will be continuous over the entire surface, which translates into easier cleaning of the bathroom, making the environment more hygienic and without having to juggle bulky ceramics.

Another technical advantage, not immediately apparent to the eye of the beholder, is the reduced noise level that this technical solution brings.

The best Flaminia sanitaryware

Having understood the characteristics for which suspended sanitary ware is the most modern and functional choice you can make for your bathroom, let’s proceed to discover some of the best series on the market.

We do it starting from the house Ceramica Flaminia, we have dealt with their history in another interesting article that we invite you to read.

All the series produced by Flaminia are of the best Italian quality, but let’s focus on the most successful ones, such as the App series.

The reasons for its success can be found in its simple and young forms, nothing superfluous, only the essential. These lines are the result of the best international design combined with the modern technology GoClean signed Flaminia.

This allows the removal of the brida, the small ceramic flap that you can find in all traditional vases. The inner surface of the toilet bowl is thus continuous, easier to clean and more beautiful to look at.

The best Ceramica Cielo sanitaryware

Continuing on our journey to discover the best wall-hung sanitaryware, we come to one of the Italian companies with delicate lines that almost reflect its name: Ceramica Cielo.

In particular, we would like to focus on the Era series of wall-hung sanitaryware, an evocative name for equally exciting shapes. The result of the pen of Luca Cimarra, an Italian designer and architect, who has managed to encapsulate the maximum comfort of form in his lines. The result is a collection of wall-hung sanitary ware capable of adapting to modern style requirements.

Here, too, aesthetics are accompanied hand in hand with technology. In this case the rim is eliminated by the innovative solution called Rimless 2.0.

Ideal Standard wall-hung sanitaryware

Let’s end our journey in the arms of Ideal Standard, an Italian company that, pardon the pun, has been able to dictate Italian and international standards.

The series that you have already heard about on our blog is the collection of suspended sanitary Ideal Standard Tesi, which are certainly among the best of the manufacturer, but today we focus on another series: the Dea line.

The name already exemplifies what we are going to talk about, a product capable of standing out and rising above the others. The suspended sanitary fixtures Dea by Ideal Standard are characterized by clear and decisive lines, which leave no room for interpretation.

Dea yes, but always equipped with modern technologies very human. In this case we have the Aquablade system, the bar in this case is not totally eliminated, but thinned so much as to make the water a blade, hence the name “blade”.

Il nome già esemplifica di cosa stiamo per parlare, di un prodotto capace di distinguersi ed elevarsi sugli altri. I sanitari sospesi Dea della Ideal Standard si caratterizzano per linee nette e decise, che non lasciano spezio ad interpretazioni.

Ideal Standard

To understand the basis of the success of a collection of products, such as the Ideal Standard Tesi wall-hung sanitaryware, we can only start from its manufacturer. Analysing the causes and its origins.

Over 100 years of history are behind Ideal Standard. One hundred years, a number that already well represents how well this manufacturer has been able to survive the changes over time.

It has always been a pioneer in the field, first attracting the pens of the great Italian designers. One of these was Gio Ponti, the Italian architect, designer and artist who lent his talents to bathroom design, changing it forever.

This desire to innovate, to question the status quo, gave birth, almost like a flower, to a product such as Ideal Standard Tesi wall-hung sanitaryware.

Aesthetic characteristics

Moving on to talk about the product in detail, the Tesi line of wall-hung sanitary ware is characterised by very simple but suggestive shapes.

The result of the work of Studio Levien, an international product design company, the Tesi series seems to leap off the wall towards the future of modernity that distinguishes it.

The balance that must coexist between function and aesthetics is perfectly represented in the shapes of this series of sanitaryware. Beautiful but with a technological aspect to discover.

Aquablade technology

Although aesthetic reasons are fundamental in the choice of a sanitary ware line, technology and technique are no less important.

The Ideal Standard Tesi wall-hung sanitary ware line is a concentration of the highest technologies in the field of bathroom furniture. This is evident in the management of the rim and its cleaning.

What is the flap? Good question. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, brida means the ceramic flap that is present in all traditional WCs and which helps to retain the water from the flush inside the WC. Simple, isn’t it?

This flap, however, has always represented an unsightly and above all unhygienic element in WCs, which is why in recent years efforts have been made to eliminate it.

Ideal Standard has therefore patented the Aquablade technology and applied it to all its products such as the Tesi wall-hung sanitaryware.

This technology takes the form of a rim that becomes very thin, almost invisible in the toilet bowl. This conformation allows the water to flow at high speed, cleaning itself of any residual germs and dirt. Self-cleaning, not bad at all.

In addition to cleaning, this drain also reduces noise and water usage. Something not to be taken for granted in an increasingly resource-poor world.

Toilet seat slowed down or not?

Having understood the aesthetic and technical reasons that make Ideal Standard Tesi wall-hung sanitaryware among the best on the market, let’s move on to one of the dilemmas that most divides our customers: slowed down or not slowed down toilet seat cover?

If we wanted to give an answer based only on the trends of the moment, this would certainly be the slow motion toilet seat. The choice now falls almost exclusively on this model, which is both technologically new and comfortable.

A slow-moving toilet seat allows you to let the two parts of the toilet seat “fall off” without the risk of breaking them. This is because special hinges will not let the part fall, but will accompany it gently to the ceramic. This is a bit like the reasoning behind cushioned furniture doors.

So why choose a non-sliding toilet seat cover? There are many reasons for this, but the main one is the fear of malfunctions or the desire to save a little money.

There is no doubt that a slow-moving toilet seat is slightly more expensive, but we can say from our long experience that there are no malfunctions and never will be.

Price

In all this creative and technological process, Ideal Standard has managed to maintain an affordable price for all budgets.

On our store you can find the best offer for Ideal Standard Tesi wall-hung sanitary ware, complete with slowed down WC cover or not. We don’t choose for you, but we assist you at best.

It almost sounds like a fairy tale, but the beginnings of Ceramica Flaminia were not easy. Born from a strike, born from the will of a few young people, finding the funds was not easy. So many of them went into debt, others even postponed their marriages, in order to set up one of the most important Italian bathroom furniture companies.

Ceramica Flaminia and the economic boom

Clearly, before reaching where it is today, Ceramica Flaminia was able to change and renew itself over time. The secret of every successful company.

It was able to grasp with enthusiasm the needs of post-war Italy, the Italy of the economic boom. A country where a widespread sense of wellbeing and affluence required increasingly sought-after products and above all in large numbers.

For this reason Ceramica Flaminia renews its production processes and, from an exclusively artisan work, it moves to an industrial production line.

In those years bathroom furniture changes, no longer white, the candid symbol of cleanliness, but an explosion of colours. Italians also in the bathroom want to represent their happiness and Flaminia perfectly captures this desire.

Change of course

After the period of explosion and strong growth, Ceramica Flaminia in the ’80s worked to continue on this course, but some design choices did not seem to enthuse the public.

So in the ’90s it was decided that it was time to change, once again, in order to survive. In this war against decline, the pencils of designers and creative people took to the field. One of them was Giulio Cappellini who, at the dawn of the new millennium, launched the Acquagrande washbasin on the market, which was more than just a product – it was a real symbol.

From that moment on Ceramica Flaminia understands that it is back on track and that design is its racing car. Giulio Cappellini took on the role of art director, directing the entire creative process behind the design of a new collection.

New collections for new production facilities. Today Ceramica Flaminia is committed daily to providing products that are the result of the highest technology, at competitive prices.

Successful products

In this troubled and inspiring history, Ceramica Flaminia produces lines that will end up defining the quality standard in Italy and beyond.

As we mentioned before, the stylistic turning point came with the Acquagrande line of washbasins. A washbasin characterised by clear, decisive, almost imposing shapes. An excellent column on which to base your future.

Moving on to sanitary ware, Ceramica Flaminia has launched many series, one of which is the App line. Born in 2014, it was immediately a success. Today it represents, with its clean and soft lines, one of the flagship products of the manufacturer.

If soft lines are not your thing and you are more fond of a classic design, Ceramica Flaminia helps you with the Efi collection. This is undoubtedly the most traditional collection in the catalogue, with shapes that recall old types of WCs and bidets. Lines, however, that know how to fascinate even the most contemporary among us.

What makes the WCs in the new Ceramica Flaminia collections special is the innovative GoClean technology. This innovation allows designers to remove one of the most unsightly and also not very functional elements: the rim. The rim, in simple words, is nothing more than that ceramic flap, present in toilets, which helps to retain the water of the flush.

Thanks to GoClean technology, this flap is eliminated from Ceramica Flaminia toilets, making it easier to clean every area of your toilet.

This technology has been so successful that it is now almost impossible to find a toilet bowl that still has the brim.

History

Like all the greatest Italian companies, Antoniolupi can only be born from the strength of a family. The union of four brothers has made the Antoniolupi’s design miracle possible.

This journey, however, began with the father Antonio Lupi, the progenitor of a generation, who started with glass and has come to the present day.

Since the opening of a new production plant in 1969 near Florence, Antoniolupi’s research has never stopped. Rooted in the territory, the search for design solutions has evolved into the creation of innovative materials.

Corian at the beginning of the 2000s, then Flumood, Cristalmood and other materials that are perfectly suited to frenzied experimentation.

Antoniolupi design products

The history of Italian companies is always interesting, but this is realised in the products. This is why we are analysing the Antoniolupi catalogue, design and innovation at its best.

Starting from washbasins, one of the leading products, the collection that perhaps best shows how much the material makes a difference in antoniolupi’s design is definitely Bloom.

The corner cuts are a graphic element that is as powerful as it is revolutionary. In our conception, washbasins are continuous, clear-cut forms, but in this case Antoniolupi‘s design shatters this preconception.

Even in the company’s bathtub line, we can find products and experiments that overturn our ideas. One of these is certainly the Edonia bathtub.

This bathtub, thanks to the use of Cristalplant material, includes directly in its lines the support to make it freestanding.

Moving on to bathroom taps and fittings, another fundamental and indispensable element of the decor. However, we would like to focus on one particular fitting, namely the Cartaintenso toilet shower.

Who would have ever thought of putting a roll holder attached to a toilet shower? The designers of Antoniolupi have thought about it and have done so by creating an extraordinary product.

These and many other Antoniolupi design products can be found in our store, authorized dealer.

In this eternal tireless work, Ideal Standard has launched numerous innovations on the market over the years. Without going into the twentieth century, the innovative Aquablade was launched a few years ago.

Ideal Standard’s Aquablade system has created a new way of conceiving the rim of WCs. For the uninitiated, “rim” means the ceramic flap of the WC. In Ideal Standard WCs, in fact, the rim is almost eliminated, becoming as thin as a blade, hence the name blade.

This desire to innovate is not only limited to the shapes of the products, but also to their components. This is the case with the washbasin series we are talking about today, the Ipalyss collection produced with the new material Diamatec.

What is diamatec?

Diamatec is an innovative material created by Ideal Standard to reach new heights of strength and thinness. Formed from a mixture of alumina and calcined clay, Diametec allows house designers to produce new shapes that are both thin and strong.

This research draws inspiration from other areas where the highest performance of ceramics is required. In fact, the materials produced, subjected to quality and resistance tests, passed all the tests without any problem.

What is Ipalyss?

Ipalyss is a new collection of washbasins that exploits the qualities of this innovative material. Its ultra-thin edges would not be possible with traditional materials.

Its innovative shapes are also combined with a wide range of colours. The colour pomegranate, a particularly intense and touching red. Or pale pink, soft and delicate in its nuances. Or slate, a clear colour that defines the bathroom.

As with physical shops, however, there is always a safe way through this undergrowth of possibilities, marked out by those who have travelled that route before you and left a trail, a trail of breadcrumbs like modern Hansel and Gretel.

These travellers are none other than the customers that an online shop has had and who, through reviews, assess for you the convenience and, above all, the reliability of a retailer. This is nothing more than the word-of-mouth that used to characterise physical shops.

There are many online services that collect customer reviews: Google and Facebook among the best known. But can reviews be trusted?

This is a question on which even the most cautious fall back, uncertainty and doubt are always around the corner. This is why in 1999, at the dawn of digital commerce, Jean-Marc Noël and Ulrich Hafenbradl came up with the idea of creating a seal of quality, a certificate that would guarantee maximum security for European buyers.

Thus was born Trusted Shops, a brand that brings together over 30,000 online shops with more than 2 million customers who have given their reviews, all verified and guaranteed. This quality certificate allows the European consumer to be sure that these opinions are those of real customers. The era of reviews from the owner’s cousin, or worse, a well-trained robot, is over.

Certified reviews are nevertheless one side of the coin. Trusted Shops also guarantees your purchase in practice, in fact, depending on the shop you are buying from, your payment will be covered in the event of non-delivery or service failure.

In the case of Quaranta Ceramiche, our shop dedicated to ceramics and bathroom furnishings, in just a few months of certification there have already been 60 reviews from fully satisfied customers and no disservice or refunds requested. In addition, Trusted Shops guarantees your purchases on our site up to a maximum of € 2,500.00, a figure that, as mentioned, is refunded in case of any problems with the order.

This symbol you see at the bottom of our website is the Trusted Badge, which can be found on many sites that meet certain strict requirements, and reminds you that the site is guaranteed safe.

Buying online is therefore not so different from buying in a physical shop, and with Trusted Shops it can be even safer.

Never as in this moment of uncertainty, people look for an element of comfort in every detail of their homes, something that gives back the security and serenity that we lack.

The furnishings and finishes of one’s home can play a fundamental role: an environment that reflects our wishes is a serene environment.

Among the many options that any of us can adopt, wood has always remained an element capable of best combining the irrepressible desire for modernity with the most intimate need for warmth.

This material, better than many others, is capable of combining all of today’s needs: a contemporary style that respects the environment, respects man and is technologically advanced.

All these elements, and many others, can be found in the security of the made in Italy, in this case signed Listone Giordano, for years now Italian and international reference for the best quality wooden floors.

Listone Giordano, as a proof of the constant research, is not only the name of the Italian reality of the real patent that has transformed the world of parquet. Until 1983, in fact, wooden floors were made entirely of solid wood, a noble part of the material, but subject to climatic changes that modified its properties.

Listone Giordano PatentIn 1984 Guglielmo Giordano had the intuition to combine the solid wood layer with a birch backing layer, thus making the finished product stronger and more sustainable. Birch, in fact, shows a lower tendency to warp and is an excellent ecological choice thanks to its rapid growth.

From simple intuitions come great stories, and so it was with Listone.

In our shop you can find these concepts applied to surprising products, made of the best French oak available in various colours that can satisfy every aesthetic taste.

The wise selection of materials leads to products such as the prefinished parquet in tamarind oak, a warm colour that fits well with the home environment.

Prefinished tamarind oak parquetOr from the same collection, in another colour, we have prefinished montblanc oak parquet in a lighter, softer shade.

Prefinished oak flooring in absolute whiteIf you are looking for an even lighter colour, then we have prefinished oak flooring in absolute white. Such a neutral colour leaves room for the imagination and your furniture to define its own refuge.

Here lies the birth and fortune of Ceramica Bardelli, an Italian company specialising in the production of designer ceramics: high quality, handmade and designer tiles.

Starting out as a glazier’s in Milan in the 1960s, Bardelli products soon attracted the interest of international trends, attracting among its ranks the best Italian and foreign designers: Gio Ponti, Idarica Gazzoni, Robert Dawson, Annabelle D’Huart, are just some of the colourful names that have contributed to the history of Bardelli signature ceramics.

Each product is refined to the smallest detail and designed for the architect, the professional who finds in the collections the right combination of technique and art.

All the series signed Bardelli would deserve an article or an essay on them, but we will try not to dwell too long and show you some of those highlighted in the foreground.

In this quick tour we have to start from “Zip“, the collection awarded with the Design Award 2020, designed by Meneghello Paolelli Associati. Suitable for use as both floor and wall tiles, this series is characterised by a solid colour and a simple line, a sort of zip on the edge of the tile that completely rethinks the tile joint.

Bardelli Ceramic, Zip CollectionIn today’s ceramics, “joints” are almost hated and an attempt is made to reduce their presence to a minimum by means of large formats and the rectification of edges. Zip, instead, takes this element, rethinks it and turns it into a decorative fulcrum.

Moving on to a collection of Bardelli designer ceramics that is more articulated in its decoration, we find “Fleurs“. Designed by Paradisoterrestre, the series is inspired by Giacomo Balla’s Futurist Flowers and creates an abstract and dynamic garden thanks to the two mirrored decorations.

Bardelli Ceramic, Fleurs CollectionAvailable in the 16×16 cm size, these skilfully combined flowers create an unparalleled visual impact, enlivening any wall or floor.

Bardelli’s designer ceramics also lead us towards more impactful collections, such as “Primitiva” designed by Studiopepe.  Conceived as a series in dialogue with the colours of “Pittorica”, it is characterised by a decoration that combines colour, intentionally imperfect, and materiality. The surface, in fact, is chalky on the background and slightly rough on the decoration.

Ceramica Bardelli, collezione PrimitivaThe collection available in the 25×25 cm size adds a clear and scratchy, almost primitive decoration to Bardelli ceramics, as the name itself suggests.

In conclusion, to give you a more delicate decoration and more harmonious thoughts as a finale, the “Tuli-Poni” series designed by Ronald van der Hilst. As you can easily guess from the name, this collection presents the famous flowers in a large format thanks to the combination of no less than 18 different pieces.

Ceramica Bardelli, collezione Tuli-Poni

This series is also entirely hand-finished, proof that Bardelli ceramics are the best solution for those seeking an aesthetic sign that defines space.