"We are here on the shores of Lake Orta, in a beautiful area. This place that I love and consider the true genius loci of Fantini's know-how is a great inspiration for our work ”, says Daniela Fantini with simple and profound words at the same time. And with these words he tells a story, the story of a "factory" linked to a territory, to centuries-old traditions handed down for generations. Report From The Waterfront. Fantini: Stories of an Italian design factory (Rizzoli) tells an adventure born in 1947 by the brothers Giovanni and Ersilio Fantini, a story of an original and fascinating enterprise that, from the small village of Pella on the shores of the lake, in one of the most beautiful areas of Italy, has brought all over the world its high-end products created by internationally renowned designers, including Piero Lissoni, Franco Sargiani, Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez, Vincent Van Duysen, Michael Anastassiades, Naoto Fukasawa. Among the latest in order of time, Yabu Pushelberg who drew inspiration for the new Sailing series from the suggestions of the lake, poetically reinterpreting the classic bollard to which boats moor.