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Ascanio Zocchi Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Kotiso Dining Table in Furniture Design

Ascanio Zocchi acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Kotiso Dining Table by Ascanio Zocchi, designed for Vetreria Malagoli. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the Bronze A' Design Award

The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

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 Ascanio Zocchi

Design can certainly contribute to society by creating useful objects that are beautiful and easy to use. In the design of objects or interior spaces Ascanio tries to use natural products, respectful of the environment, in the designed spaces you can breathe this harmony between colors and materials. There is continuous research on materials, finding in wood a design partner, not just a material to be used, to produce objects or environments. According to him, wood is the sensory material par excellence, color, shape and perfume. Each of us who loves nature tries to bring a piece of wood into the house, perhaps because with this act we bring nature, life into the house.

Award Record

This recognition makes Ascanio Zocchi a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2015 - 2016 to 2024 - 2025 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Furniture Design Award

The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Kotiso Dining Table
Function
Dining Table
Category
Furniture Design
Discipline
Industrial Design
Industry
Furniture & Home
Colors
Light Gray, Sky Blue, Cadet Blue, Light Sea Green and Light Steel Blue
Images
5
Client
Vetreria Malagoli

The Recognition

Laureate
Ascanio Zocchi
Country
Italy
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2024 - 2025
Design ID
#148519

Credits

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

Design Details

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
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.
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.
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
Realization and 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.
Operation and 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
Specifications
dimensions 100 L 180 P cm with a height of 75 cm slabs thickness of 8 mm
Keywords
table, dinning, glass, Venezia, Milano, MIlano Glass Week, Italian Glass Week,

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