Kotiso Pākaukau ʻAina by Ascanio Zocchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Lako Hale Competition Category.

KeleaweLako Hale· 2025

Kotiso Pākaukau ʻAina

by Ascanio Zocchi

Client: Vetreria Malagoli

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Lako Hale Category

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The Design

About Kotiso Pākaukau ʻAina

Hoʻoike kēia mea i nā kulanakauhale koikoi ʻelua o ka makahiki honua o ka aniani, ʻo Milano a me Venetia. Ua hoʻolike ʻia ʻo Milano me ka ʻano geometry a me ka mālamalama o ka papa luna a me ka papahele, a me kona alo lani kahi i ʻike ʻia ai kēia loli i nā makahiki hou aʻe me ka aniani ma ke alo o nā hale kiʻekiʻe ʻano like ʻole i kuʻu ʻia i ka lani e like me ia ma Piazza Gae Aulenti a me City Life.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Kotiso Pākaukau ʻAina i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Kotiso Pākaukau ʻAina he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Kotiso Pākaukau ʻAina i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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