MGS MILANO

There's a small town called Gravellona Toce on the Italian side of the Alps, an hour from Milan and just over the mountains from Lugano, Switzerland. It's a corner of Italy known for one thing: stainless steel. And in 1997, a small family-run company called MGS started making something there that almost no one else was making — luxury kitchen and bath taps forged entirely from solid stainless steel.

Not chrome-plated brass. Not stainless veneer over a softer core. Solid stainless, all the way through.

Pick up a chrome faucet from the average showroom and what you're really holding is brass with a thin layer of chrome electroplated on top. Over years of cleaning, water exposure, and ordinary wear, that plating dulls, pits, and eventually flakes. An MGS tap can't do that — there's nothing to wear away. The finish is the material.

Italian Design, Swiss Engineering. MGS sits inside COPAMA SA, a Swiss firm founded in Lugano in 1978 — which is why the engineering reads the way Swiss things tend to read: precise, quiet, mechanically immaculate. Tolerances are so tight that on many MGS pieces you cannot see the seams where components meet. Cartridges operate without the slightest vibration. Lever handles fall into place with a definite, satisfying click. Every faucet is hand-polished by specialized artisans in the Gravellona Toce factory before it leaves the building. There is no robotic final pass.

Marine-Grade 316 Stainless. MGS uses 316-grade stainless steel — the same alloy specified for marine fittings, surgical instruments, and pharmaceutical equipment. It is dramatically more resistant to corrosion, chlorides, and chemical exposure than the 304 stainless used in most consumer products, which means an MGS tap is just as appropriate for an outdoor kitchen, a pool house, or a coastal home as it is for the primary suite. For Atlanta's growing market of outdoor kitchens and lakeside homes north of the city, there is genuinely no better faucet specification on the market.

Health and Sustainability. MGS was the first European company certified to NSF61 Annex G, the standard underlying the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act. Stainless is completely lead-free. It's also fully recyclable, with roughly 60% recycled content in the steel itself.

The full kitchen, bath, and outdoor collection is on display in our Atlanta showroom.