Kotiso Dining Table by Ascanio Zocchi |
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| DESIGN NAME: Kotiso PRIMARY FUNCTION: Dining Table 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. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: 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 OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: it is a table and can be used as a dining table or a desk PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: the project started in Milan in April 2022, carried out in Modena at the headquarters and finished in August 2022 at the company headquarters FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Furniture Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION 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. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 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, RESEARCH ABSTRACT: 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. 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 ADDED DATE: 2023-02-16 13:26:53 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : 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 PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: ADI DESIGN INDEX 2023 |
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NAME: Vetreria Malagoli PROFILE: company that has been producing flat glass objects for 100 years, engaged in the production of glass windows, parapets and balustrades up to structural glass and design objects for the home, with float glass |
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Kotiso Dining Table by Ascanio Zocchi is Winner in Furniture Design Category, 2024 - 2025.· Read the interview with designer Ascanio Zocchi for design Kotiso here.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Ascanio Zocchi. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Ascanio Zocchi. |
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