Kartell K-VIT Klassique Pair of Basin Pillar Taps – Chrome (TAP103KL)

Kartell K-VIT Klassique Pair of Basin Pillar Taps – Chrome (TAP103KL)

The Kartell K-VIT Klassique range is traditional styling done without fuss — crosshead handles on a rounded body, in polished chrome, with ceramic HOT and COLD indices. Kartell call it "a brassware range with grace", and it is the one to pick for a period property, a cottage, or a bathroom where you want warmth rather than minimalism.

This is a pair of basin pillar taps: two separate taps, one hot and one cold.

Pillar taps or a mixer?

Pillar taps are the traditional arrangement — two separate taps, no mixing. On a period bathroom they're also the historically correct choice: an old basin was never designed for a mixer, and crossheads either side of the bowl look right in a way a single spout doesn't.

Choose them where the basin has two tap holes. If yours has a single central hole, you want the Klassique mono basin mixer instead — and that one includes a waste, which this pair doesn't.

The honest trade-off: you can't set a temperature. It's hot or cold or a hand under each.

Traditional look, modern mechanism

The thing that makes Klassique worth having over genuinely old taps: ceramic disc cartridges with quarter-turn operation. Traditional crosshead taps were the classic dripper, needing a new washer every couple of years. Ceramic discs don't perish, so you get the period look without the period maintenance.

Before you order

Check your basin has two tap holes at standard centres, with room either side of the bowl for the handles to turn.

The waste is sold separately.

Water pressure

Suitable for low pressure systems, so they work on gravity-fed plumbing as well as mains pressure.

The rest of the Klassique range

The range also includes a mono basin mixer with click waste, a pair of bath pillar taps, a bath filler and a bath shower mixer.

Specification

• Code: TAP103KL
• Supplied as a pair (hot and cold)
• Polished chrome, gloss finish
• Solid brass construction
• Traditional crosshead handles
• Ceramic disc cartridges, quarter turn operation
• For two tap hole basins
• 1/2" BSP flexi hose connections
• Suitable for low water pressure systems
• Weight 1.23kg
• Fixings supplied
• Waste sold separately
• 5 year guarantee (1 year on moving parts)
• Barcode 5060168228901

Downloads

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