Kotiso Tafura Yekudyira by Ascanio Zocchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award in Dhizaini yeFenichara Competition Category.
BronziFenichara· 2025
Kotiso Tafura Yekudyira
Client: Vetreria Malagoli
Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award Winner in Fenichara Category
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About Kotiso Tafura Yekudyira
Chinhu ichi chinomiririra maguta maviri makuru egore repasi rose regirazi, Milan neVenice. Milan inomiririrwa ne-geometry nekujeka kwemusoro nepasi, skyline yayo iyo mumakore apfuura yaona shanduko iyi negirazi sezvinhu zvakakosha muzvivakwa zvemaumbirwo akasiyana-siyana zvakapotsererwa kudenga senge muPiazza Gae Aulenti neCity Life.
The Recognition
About the Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award
Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award wakahwinwa ne Kotiso Tafura Yekudyira, rukudzo rwakakwirira kwazvo runopiwa kumadhizaini akasiyana anozivikanwa nekugadzira, njere nekungwara. Vakunda veBronzi mabasa ane unyanzvi hwakakwana uye kugadzira kunoshamisa kunosimbisa ruzivo rukuru, pfungwa nehunyanzvi hwevagadziri vawo. Kotiso Tafura Yekudyira inotarisirwa kuva chinhu chinokudzwa kwazvo, chinoremekedzwa uye chinodiwa, chine hunyanzvi hunoonekwa uye zvitsva. Dhizaini iyi yakahwina Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award inosanganisa maitiro akanakisa muhunyanzvi, sayenzi, dhizaini netekinoroji uye yakasiyana nekutarisisa zvidiki. Kotiso Tafura Yekudyira inogutsa zvinodiwa zvakanaka, inobata zvishuvo, inokwezva manzwiro uye inomutsa kuda kuziva.
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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