Kotiso Yttafel by Ascanio Zocchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award yn Brûns in Meubelûntwerp Competition Category.
BrûnsMeubels· 2025
Kotiso Yttafel
Client: Vetreria Malagoli
A' Design Award yn Brûns Winner in Meubels Category
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About Kotiso Yttafel
Dit objekt represintearret de twa protagonistyske stêden fan it ynternasjonale jier fan glês. Milaan en Feneesje. Milaan wurdt represintearre mei de geometry en transparânsje fan it blêd en de basis, de skyline dy't yn de ôfrûne jierren dizze transformaasje sjoen hat mei glês as protagoniste yn 'e gebouwen fan ferskate foarmen rjochte nei de himel ta lykas yn Piazza Gae Aulenti en City Life
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award yn Brûns
Kotiso Yttafel is in winner fan de A' Design Award yn Brûns, in heech prestisjeuze erkenning foar treflike ûntwerpen dy't har ûnderskiede troch kreativiteit, fernuft en tûkens. Brûnswinners binne tige feardige en opfallend kreative artefakten dy't de grutte ûnderfining, ferbylding en betochtsumens fan har ûntwerpers befêstigje. Fan Kotiso Yttafel wurdt ferwachte dat it in tige heech achte, bewûndere en dierber objekt is dat opmerklik profesjoneel en ynnovatyf is. Dit winnende ûntwerp fan de A' Design Award yn Brûns yntegrearret de bêste praktiken yn keunst, wittenskip, ûntwerp en technology en is treflik om syn omtinken foar detail. Kotiso Yttafel foldocht behoeften prachtich, reitsjet winsken, betsjoeveret gefoelens en sprekt nijsgjirrigens oan.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This object represents the two protagonist cities of the international year of glass. Milan and Venice
Milan represented with the geometry and transparency of the top and base, its skyline which in recent years has seen this transformation with glass as the protagonist in the buildings of various shapes thrown towards the sky such as in Piazza Gae Aulenti and City Life.
the object was included in the precious ADI DESIGN INDEX 2023 and used as a symbol for the International Year of Glass 2022 in Milan and Venice - Dimensions & Packaging
- dimensions 100 L 180 P cm with a height of 75 cm slabs thickness of 8 mm
- Tags
- table, dinning, glass, Venezia, Milano, MIlano Glass Week, Italian Glass Week,
- Production Technology
- The glass blocks are subjected to a heating treatment, and are immersed in water, causing them to shatter into small pieces.
With the recovered pieces, small agglomerates of glass are created which are placed in a melting furnace.
The table top and the base are produced in extra-clear Float glass 8 mm thick thermally tempered and subsequently worked on the edges with a polished edge grinding. - Design Challenge
- the challenge was to combine two similar materials, colored glass and float glass, achieving a union that generates an effect of color and transparency, inspired by the colors of the Venice lagoon and the landscape of Milan at dawn
- Research
- the research carried out for this project was to represent with glass a symbolic object for the Italian capitals of design in the international year of glass. create a bridge that combines design, art and technology in a single object. combine artistic glass with Float technical glass with new technologies.
- Inspiration
- Milan with transparency and geometry Venice with plays of color that here become drops of the lagoon fused on the tempered glass float plate, every shape, gesture and color has its own meaning.
The transparency of flat glass and the transparency of colored glass with colors inspired by the play of light at dawn on the sea of the Venice lagoon. - Project Duration
- the project started in Milan in April 2022, carried out in Modena at the headquarters and finished in August 2022 at the company headquarters
- Operation Flow
- it is a table and can be used as a dining table or a desk
- Patents
- ADI DESIGN INDEX 2023
- Image Credits
- image 1 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
image 2 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
image 3 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
image 4 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
image 5 photographer Ascanio Zocchi 2022
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