Astra Story

Astra Lighting was founded in 2003,a company with more than 20 years ofexperience in lighting manufacturing.

In the freezing workshop of Prague, I gripped the scorching glass tube, blowing and shaping it repeatedly, my frost-cracked fingertips oozing blood under the 1600°C blaze. My
Czech mentor once claimed Asians could never master Bohemian craftsmanship. Yet at gradu-ation, he cradled my tulip-shaped lampshade and murmured, “This holds a passion clearer than crystal.” In 2008, I returned to Jiangnan with three crates of sketches. On a rainy winter night, huddled under a leaking workshop roof, I adjusted formulas by the kiln. When the first glass chandelier flickered to life, its dancing light mirrored two decades of journey–proof that the world’s toughest material isn’t glass, but a resolve tempered a thousand times by unwavering.