Kotiso Itafula Lokudlela by Ascanio Zocchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Umklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award in Ukudizayina Ifenisha Competition Category.
IbhulonziIfenisha· 2025
Kotiso Itafula Lokudlela
Client: Vetreria Malagoli
Umklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award Winner in Ifenisha Category
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About Kotiso Itafula Lokudlela
Lento imelela amadolobha amabili ayinhloko onyakeni wamazwe omhlaba wegilazi, i-Milan ne-Venice. I-Milan imelwe ngobunjalo nokusobala kwesihloko nesisekelo, umugqa wayo wamazulu okwiminyaka yakamuva ubone lolu guquko ngegilazi njengengxenye eyinhloko yezakhiwo ezinezimo ezahlukene ezijikijelwe esibhakabhakeni njengase-Piazza Gae Aulenti nase-City Life.
The Recognition
About the Umklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award
Kotiso Itafula Lokudlela iwinile uMklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award, ukwaziswa okuhloniphekile kakhulu okunikezwa imiklamo ephawulekayo eyehlukaniswa ukudala, ubuhlakani nobukhali bengqondo. Abawinile beBhulonzi yimisebenzi enobuchule obukhulu nedala ngokumangalisayo eqinisekisa isipiliyoni esibanzi, umcabango nobuhlakani babaklami babo. Kotiso Itafula Lokudlela ilindeleke ukuba ibe yinto exatshwa kakhulu, edunyiswayo nethandwayo, enobungcweti obuphawulekayo nezinto ezintsha. Lo mklamo owinile uMklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award uhlanganisa izindlela ezinhle kakhulu ebuciko, esayensi, ekuklameni nasebuchwepheshe futhi uhamba phambili ngenxa yokunaka kwawo imininingwane. Kotiso Itafula Lokudlela iyanelisa izidingo ngokumangalisayo, ithinta izifiso, iheha imizwa futhi ikhanga ukufuna ukwazi.
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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