Astep Catalogue 2021
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Timeless Inventions

Good design feels eternally contemporary. As familiar as the past, as relevant as the present and as inventive as the future. Because its value taps into more than good looks. Good design is timeless. It draws from a relentless effort to fight the status quo and go beyond what is possible. It is an endless drive to excel, create, engineer. It is courage, spiced up with a touch of stubbornness. Good design moves along the flowless space and time of innovation. And this is exactly where Astep moves, back and forth bringing to life timeless designs and investing in contemporary inventions. The...

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Astep was founded in 2014 by Alessandro Sarfatti to create and curate timeless inventions with an innovative approach. Acknowledging the importance of continuously re efining, d refining and remembering timeless designs, Astep retains its edge by introducing new designs with advancing technologies with the Evolution Collection. With the Tribute Collection, Astep reissues selected lighting designs as the timeless masterpieces of Gino Sarfatti in the Gino Sarfatti Collection and the works of established architects and designers who worked for the lighting company he founded, Arteluce.

The essence of evolution is to capture the best of what has been and let it evolve into the heart of what is to come. Thus, Astep continues on the path devised by two great entrepreneurs. Like all good Italian tales, mine is also a family affair and draws from father to son. In 1939, Gino Sarfatti took the first step by founding Arteluce, a company that pioneered the use of design in the lighting business. In 1978 my father Riccardo went a step further. Together with my mother Sandra Severi and architect Paolo Rizzatto he created Luceplan, a company that tied together design and...

Design Design is many things. But for us it is above all a relationship. Behind a good project there is always a good relationship between all the people involved in the process of conception, development, manufacturing, marketing and sale. A relationship of mutual respect, fostered through the continuous exchange of ideas and visions, working towards a joint goal of developing new ideas, and relevant for people. A relationship based on trust, honesty and mutual collaboration. Ahead of a good project there is always a good relationship between objects, people and the spaces they inhabit....

In Astep’s philosophy, design and technology go hand in hand to create products that represent a real evolution in the world of lighting. The lamps of the Evolution collection are designed to bring to the market solutions that were not there before: products with a prolonged life cycle, with an aesthetic and manufacturing root in Italy, looking at the future, a step at a time. Evolution Collection

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Evolution Collection Pepa works like a pepper mill: it is lit by rotating the conical reflector connected to a multi-axis magnetic field sensor (patent pending). Turning it, up to 360°, adjusts the brightness from maximum to off, making the lamp, which is portable, perfect to create a light that is discreet or decisive whereas needed. Pepa was born from the intuition of Italian designer Francesco Faccin to create a light that needs to be touched in order to be seen. The warmth of solid ash wood and the gesture to turn Pepa on represent the happy merging of past and future, of artisan...

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DISTINCTIVE TO NOX IS ITS WIRELESS CHARGING SYSTEM WITH INDUCTION TECHNOLOGY. NOX PROVIDES UP TO 336 HOURS OF LIGHT WHEN FULLY CHARGED Evolution Collection Nox, from the Latin night, is an accomplice and constant presence, thanks to its portability and flexibility as well as its wireless induction technology and its incredibly long battery life. Designed by Alfredo Häberli, made and assembled in Italy, Nox perfectly combines the artisan tradition of mouth-blown opal glass diffusers with sophisticated technology. A full recharge allows Nox to provide light for 20 consecutive hours at full...

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Evolution Collection A contemporary lantern to travel through two centuries of history. Candela is the lamp with surprising and unexpected technology designed by Francisco Gomez Paz, but it is also a time machine that inverts the past with the future by combining the oldest and most modern forms of lighting in one piece. Conceived to perpetuate the tradition of Scandinavian oil lanterns, Candela (candle in Italian) is a synthesis of technology, sustainability and timeless rituals. Using the intuition of Thomas Johann Seebeck, who in 1821 discovered the way to generate electricity from the...

Projected into the future and with solid roots in the past, Astep pays homage to the t radition from which it draws inspiration to evolve. The lamps of the Tribute Collection celebrate the unrepeatable season of Italian masters who have combined design, technology and manufacturing in a unique leeway. The lamps by Gino Sarfatti, Vittoriano Viganò and Santi & Borachia are a reference point for lighting design. Their sophisticated, versatile soul and timeless looks is what the Tribute Collection brings back to today’s market, enriched with updated technology. Tribute Collectio

Tribute Collection Tribute Collection Born in 1951, the lamps of the VV Cinquanta family are among the greatest examples of time less elegance and versatility of a product with Made in Italy design and manufacturing, a feature that they maintain unchanged in these re-editions. Designed by the architect Vittoriano Viganò, whom Gino Sarfatti trusted for the art direction of Arteluce, they are characterized by essential and refined lines and maximum functionality. The light of VV Cinquanta can be direct or indirect. By rotating or tilting the diffuser, the lamp meets the most diverse needs,...