Kartell K-VIT Visage Bath Shower Mixer – Chrome (TAP273VIJ)

Kartell K-VIT Visage Bath Shower Mixer – Chrome (TAP273VIJ)

The Kartell K-VIT Visage range is all soft curves and rounded edges — no hard corners anywhere on it. Kartell describe it as "effortlessly elegant with an air of serenity", and it is the least assertive shape in the brassware catalogue: a classic finishing touch rather than a statement piece. If the rest of the room is doing the talking, these are the taps that will not argue with it.

This is the bath shower mixer: a deck-mounted bath tap with two rounded lever handles, a diverter and a shower handset on a flexible hose.

What it does

It fills the bath like a normal bath filler, and the diverter sends water to the handset instead — so you can shower over the bath, rinse hair, or clean the bath itself without a separate shower installation.

If you already have a separate shower and only need to fill the bath, the Visage bath filler costs less and looks tidier without the hose.

Before you order

This is a two tap hole deck-mounted tap, the standard arrangement on most baths.

Bath taps use 3/4" BSP connections, larger than the 1/2" on basin taps, so check your existing tails.

The waste is sold separately — unlike the Visage basin mixer, which includes a click waste.

Water pressure

Kartell rate this tap suitable for low water pressure systems — it will run from as little as 0.2 bar. That means it works on a gravity-fed tank and cylinder as well as on mains, combi or unvented pressure.

Being straight about what that means here: on gravity-fed plumbing the handset will be a gentle spray rather than a powerful shower. That is your water pressure, not the tap. If you want a proper shower over the bath on low pressure, you need a pump.

Living with it

The ceramic disc cartridge with quarter-turn operation gives full flow from a small movement of the lever, and is far less prone to dripping than a washer tap.

Polished chrome on a rounded body is about the easiest thing in a bathroom to keep clean — there are no corners for limescale to lodge in, and a wipe with a soft damp cloth is all it needs. What it will not take is abrasives: cream cleaners, scouring pads and strong limescale removers cut through the plating, and dull chrome cannot be brought back.

The rest of the Visage range

The range also includes a mini mono basin mixer with click waste, a mono basin mixer with click waste and a bath filler.

Specification

• Code: TAP273VIJ
• Polished chrome, gloss finish
• Solid brass construction
• Rounded body, two lever handles
• Ceramic disc cartridges, quarter turn operation
• Integrated diverter, shower handset and hose included
• Deck mounted, two tap holes
• 3/4" BSP connections
• Suitable for low water pressure systems
• Fixings supplied
• Waste sold separately
• Lifetime guarantee (1 year on moving parts)
• Barcode 5055681449872