Kotiso ダイニングテーブル by Ascanio Zocchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 家具デザイン Competition Category.
銅家具· 2025
Kotiso ダイニングテーブル
Client: Vetreria Malagoli
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 家具 Category
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About Kotiso ダイニングテーブル
この作品は、国際ガラス年を象徴する二つの主役都市、ミラノとヴェネツィアを表現しています。ミラノは、天板とベースの幾何学的形状と透明性によって表現されており、近年ガラスを主役とした様々な形状の建築物が空へと伸びる変貌を遂げたスカイライン、例えばピアッツァ・ガエ・アウレンティやシティライフなどを象徴しています。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Kotiso ダイニングテーブルは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Kotiso ダイニングテーブルは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Kotiso ダイニングテーブルは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
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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