Bright ideas 

Albert Einstein didn’t just revolutionize science. His thinking transformed how we understand the universe… and light itself. Beyond his famous theory, Einstein saw light as more than a physical constant: as an essential force that moves through time and matter.

For him, true innovation required humility and respect for what came before. It wasn’t about destroying what exists, but illuminating it from new angles. Understanding the past to project the future: that balance between knowledge, intuition and vision is also what drives Astep.

Astep doesn’t design lamps. It creates objects of light, born from memory and oriented toward tomorrow. It reinterprets iconic designs—like those of Gino Sarfatti and Vittoriano Viganò—infusing them with new life through technology and a deeply refined aesthetic.

Like Einstein, Astep believes that evolution does not contradict tradition—it refines it. In its luminaires, there is thought, emotion, and a constant search for the essential. Designs that do not compete with space but accompany it quietly, like a luminous idea taking shape.

Einstein taught us that light has mass, energy, and mystery. Astep shows us it also has soul.

Pepa by Astep s a clear example of how advanced technology becomes the perfect ally of design.

This month, we dive into the creative universe of Gino Sarfatti.

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Thanks

This website is dedicated to all those people who, in one way or another, have helped this project/dream/desire to begin and take shape.

Special thanks to my wife and my parents for supporting me, to Cristina Escarrà and Alfonso Pérez Rosales for generously sharing with me their experience as agents, to those clients who, in one way or another, have given me wise advice, to the brands that have placed their trust in me, and to Gonzalo, my godfather, who, with his always generous help, and guiding me throughout this process, is largely to blame for the fact that I can boast of being an “entrepreneur”.

Thanks also to Nuria, Rafa and Guillermo, who, to help me in the hard beginnings of any entrepreneurial activity, have opened the doors of their home, let me share with them a bit of their personal lives when I pass through their cities of residence, and give me free accommodation.

Thanks to all!