Kotiso 餐桌 by Ascanio Zocchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 家具设计 Competition Category.

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Kotiso 餐桌

by Ascanio Zocchi

Client: Vetreria Malagoli

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Kotiso 餐桌

这件作品诠释了国际玻璃年的两座主角城市——米兰与威尼斯。米兰以桌面与底座的几何形态和通透质感呈现，其天际线近年来正经历着以玻璃为主角的蜕变，各式造型的建筑直插云霄，正如盖·奥伦蒂广场与城市生活区所展现的那样。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Kotiso 餐桌是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Kotiso 餐桌将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Kotiso 餐桌出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

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