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Transparent prismatic surfaces define Ascanio Zocchi's Kotiso Dining Table through crystalline material expression achieving dematerialized architectural form where structural logic dissolves into…
Ascanio Zocchi's Kotiso Dining Table presents a pristine luminous surface rendered in near-absolute white with the slightest suggestion of cool pearl or porcelain tonality, establishing an immediate…
Ascanio Zocchi's Kotiso Dining Table materializes as an elegant architectural composition photographed from an elevated vantage point that reveals a luminous white surface punctuated by an arresting…
Ascanio Zocchi's Kotiso Dining Table commands immediate attention through its extraordinary material transparency and chromatic purity, establishing a visual field dominated by crystalline glass or…
Ascanio Zocchi's Kotiso Dining Table manifests as a pristine meditation on material essence and chromatic purity, where scattered organic forms float across an alabaster plane intersected by a…

Bronze Furniture · 2025

Kotiso Dining Table

by Ascanio Zocchi

  • Bronze A' Design Award 2025 in Furniture
  • CLIENT: Vetreria Malagoli
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 13,236
  • Verification code 80C1770950 · Verify this award
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About Kotiso Dining Table

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

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Kotiso Dining Table is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Kotiso Dining Table is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Kotiso Dining Table splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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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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