Şadi Asfuroğlu was born in Antakya in 1962 and finished Antakya High School in 1979 before enrolling in the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Architecture. While he was a good student there, he chose to leave and pursue his dream of becoming a dentist.

After graduating from Marmara University Dentistry in 1987, he established his own office in Antakya and began working as a freelance dentist.

In the early 1990s, with the motivation provided by the T.R. Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Cultural Souvenirs" design competitions, he felt the need to produce glass, and was advised by one of the Ministry of Culture's folklore researchers, costume creator, and artist coach, Mine Erbek Gökbuget, the founder of Topin Anatolian Handicrafts Center, the famous glass artist Mr. Sami Sefer. Coşkun is introduced to him. He creates the Ancient Glass House and the Antakya Glass Museum with the assistance of Sami Hodja. Our great grandfather, Ahmet Habip Efendi, one of Antakya's few merchants, constructed our 150-year-old great grandfather's heritage courtyard house, which is suggested as the fourth historical place to visit in the Antakya Tourism Rot.

The tale of the house's construction is fascinating. Our great-grandfather's first wife becomes sick and dies. When Grandpa Ahmet is left alone with his children, he naturally selects a new wife and proposes marriage to our great-grandmother, Itır. Grandma Itır is a lovely young lady who is much younger than Grandpa Ahmet... And she considers marriage to be the most crucial condition."If I marry you, you must build me a very beautiful and magnificent mansion." And Grandpa Ahmet has this beautiful mansion, a mixture of finely processed wood and stone, which he brought from Aleppo, which was an Ottoman city at the time, by giving large amounts of money to skilled stone and wood masters in order to have built the house that this beautiful girl desired. 

We purchased this home from my aunt Selva Kirkizoğlu, where my grandmother, mother, uncles, and aunts were born and raised, and began using it in 2009 as the Antakya Glass home brand's workshop, where Antakya Glasses Museum and Antique-looking glass objects are designed.