KAIA Lighting

KAIA means both light and shade. We love to unite opposites.

In collaboration with European designers, artists from family-run craft businesses and our individual team, which is spread all over Europe, we create unique lighting objects of the highest design and quality – a European creative fusion.

KAIA combines the application of art, construction technique and craftsmanship with the vision to explore things to their very essence. Our objects speak their own language: Functional beauty, simplicity, timelessness, purity, elegance often wrought in geometric perfection. All our products are skillfully handcrafted by artisans of traditional and family-owned Workshops in Austria and Germany. We work closely with our suppliers utilising our different skillsets to explore the widest possible range of materials, always with the aim of pushing the boundaries of conventional craftsmanship and design. We concentrate on every little detail to ensure that our unique and elegant products are of highest quality. All components, being glass, marble or metal go through a thorough quality control process before being assembled and wired in our Workshop near Vienna.

Kaia lighting is timeless elegance and purity wrought in geometric perfection and rigorous design. The design process is a continuous journey with no beginnings and no endings, a circle: with light off you respond to it as an aesthetic object; with the light on, you value its function. Kaia honours the construction of its objects. Where a screw is required it is openly displayed, design created with the presence of each element in mind with the excellence of traditional craftsmanship, combined with latest technology. Created objects of harmony, born out of function and honesty.

We love collaborating with other designers and brands who share our passion for craftsmanship and creating beautiful objects. Together we master the challenges of creating limited and special editions. Whilst pushing the boundaries of metal and glass production, discovering new materials like marble and establishing a sophisticated new aesthetic, we still ensure that we are in line with our design language.