Designers, Fabricators and Artisans in the Fields of Decorative Arts and Innovative Lighting for over 120 Years
Rambusch is a full-service company of designers and artisans practicing the decorative arts. For over 100 years we have applied our craft to enhance the experience of interior architecture through lighting, liturgical furnishings, stained glass, mosaic and restoration.
Services ContactUSCCB Fall General Assembly
Please visit us in Suite 722 during the US Bishops Fall General Assembly, November 14 – 17, Baltimore. We’re pleased to share our most recent liturgical work in decorative lighting, sustainable LED retrofits, furnishings, stained glass, mosaic and restoration.
Liturgical Design
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Liturgical Design
Our staff designers have always sought to serve the worship and liturgical needs of communities without adversely impacting architectural spaces and settings. We have been successful because we have always sought to clearly understand the voice of the community within the vocabulary of the building. From Victorian to Post-Modern, dominant styles and tastes change over time. Our designs seamlessly blend changes and updates into liturgical objects while tastefully answering the requirements of the space, the congregation, and the community. Through scholarship and experience, Rambusch designers have found answers through nearly every known medium and for all budgets: marble and granite, surface paint, fresco, secco and gilding, mosaic, stained glass, ceramics, fine woodwork, carved and cast ornament, repoussè, engraving, silver, gold, bronze, plastics, stainless steel, Monel metal, and aluminum.
Projects
Stained Glass
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Stained Glass
Rambusch is the sole survivor of the many Manhattan arts and crafts firms producing stained glass in the early 1900s. Today the 5,000 square-foot glass studio is staffed with full-time artisans dedicated to designing, painting, kiln-firing, and leading stained glass windows. Our glass artists employ the same time-honored techniques of their forebears, etching, tracing, matting, shading, sculpting, staining, painting, and assembling. They are well prepared to handle nearly any size project for religious or secular environments, whether a new commission, repair or conservation, replication, or repair. We’ve worked with windows by our nation’s great stained-glass artists, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, John La Farge, and Maitland Armstrong. Theirs and all glass that sees our glass shop workbenches receive painstaking, fully documented restoration under appropriate conservation treatments.
Projects
Furnishings and Art Work
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Furnishings and Art Work
We provide services in the design and installation of delicately executed mosaics, paintings, sculptures, liturgical furnishings, and other artwork. Our experts specialize in sourcing, deisgn, execution, and installation, matching materials to the artists, sculptors, masons and skilled craftspeople who are needed to fulfill projects including murals, bas-reliefs, fine wood-working, and stone or marble objects. Our commissions span large and small secular and religious environments. Rambusch coordinates the selection and purchase of mosaic tile, marble, and stone worldwide. The mosaic artists with whom we have long standing relationships fabricate our commissions in Italy.
Projects
LED Lighting
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LED Lighting
Rambusch specializes in the design, manufacture, and installation of a range of LED lighting fixtures and controls, allowing us to create a custom lighting program that best fits the architecture and purpose of any space Installing efficient lighting is a proven low-cost method of savings for institutions. By installing meters and controls and supplanting entire lighting systems with more efficient technologies, Rambush helps churches, schools, theaters, and other businesses and organizations take advantage of continuing improvements in energy efficiency. By replacing older quartz systems with LED fixtures, buildings save around 70% on energy costs and meet current standards on environmentally-friendly operations. Moreover, we provide LED fixtures and controls that create an atmosphere that is comfortable and visually dynamic, supporting the multiple modalities today’s educational, liturgical, governmental, and cultural spaces demand.
Projects
Custom Lighting
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Custom Lighting
Rambusch works through its specialized lighting workshops to create beautiful, energy-efficient light for all settings and occasions, including new designs and updates of historic systems. Over the years we have implemented a vast array of fixture designs in all workable materials, housing light sources from flame to LED. Original fixtures can deliver more than one type of lighting from multiple hidden sources. New decorative fixtures can make a major statement, be concealed, or sit anywhere in between. From our design floor and metal and glass shops, Rambusch facilitates concept, experimentation, mock-ups, thermal and photometric testing, and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) approval - all prior to fabrication.
Projects
Engineered Lighting
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Engineered Lighting
Rambusch offers the widest choice of architectural lighting solutions in the industry. Many manufacturers base a reputation on one type of fixture or sheer size of operation. We, on the other hand, provide light where needed, never detracting from or adversely affecting the architectural environment. This aim has held steady through four generations of the firm’s management. As an integrated family, Rambusch engineered fixtures work in combination to achieve what one single fixture type cannot. To light spaces and help designers best use our tools in creating uplifting environments, Rambusch provides far more than hardware. In addition to building fixtures, our business is built on communication, collaboration and shared knowledge. While there are other approaches, ours has served Rambusch clients well for over a century.
Projects
Rambusch standard and modified standard lighting fixtures are compliant with the Buy American Act and ARRA.
Liturgical Design
Our staff designers have always sought to serve the worship and liturgical needs of communities without adversely impacting architectural spaces and settings. We have been successful because we have always sought to clearly understand the voice of the community within the vocabulary of the building. From Victorian to Post-Modern, dominant styles and tastes change over time. Our designs seamlessly blend changes and updates into liturgical objects while tastefully answering the requirements of the space, the congregation, and the community. Through scholarship and experience, Rambusch designers have found answers through nearly every known medium and for all budgets: marble and granite, surface paint, fresco, secco and gilding, mosaic, stained glass, ceramics, fine woodwork, carved and cast ornament, repoussè, engraving, silver, gold, bronze, plastics, stainless steel, Monel metal, and aluminum.
Stained Glass
Rambusch is the sole survivor of the many Manhattan arts and crafts firms producing stained glass in the early 1900s. Today the 5,000 square-foot glass studio is staffed with full-time artisans dedicated to designing, painting, kiln-firing, and leading stained glass windows. Our glass artists employ the same time-honored techniques of their forebears, etching, tracing, matting, shading, sculpting, staining, painting, and assembling. They are well prepared to handle nearly any size project for religious or secular environments, whether a new commission, repair or conservation, replication, or repair. We’ve worked with windows by our nation’s great stained-glass artists, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, John La Farge, and Maitland Armstrong. Theirs and all glass that sees our glass shop workbenches receive painstaking, fully documented restoration under appropriate conservation treatments.
Furnishings and Art Work
We provide services in the design and installation of delicately executed mosaics, paintings, sculptures, liturgical furnishings, and other artwork. Our experts specialize in sourcing, deisgn, execution, and installation, matching materials to the artists, sculptors, masons and skilled craftspeople who are needed to fulfill projects including murals, bas-reliefs, fine wood-working, and stone or marble objects. Our commissions span large and small secular and religious environments. Rambusch coordinates the selection and purchase of mosaic tile, marble, and stone worldwide. The mosaic artists with whom we have long standing relationships fabricate our commissions in Italy.
LED Lighting
Rambusch specializes in the design, manufacture, and installation of a range of LED lighting fixtures and controls, allowing us to create a custom lighting program that best fits the architecture and purpose of any space Installing efficient lighting is a proven low-cost method of savings for institutions. By installing meters and controls and supplanting entire lighting systems with more efficient technologies, Rambush helps churches, schools, theaters, and other businesses and organizations take advantage of continuing improvements in energy efficiency. By replacing older quartz systems with LED fixtures, buildings save around 70% on energy costs and meet current standards on environmentally-friendly operations. Moreover, we provide LED fixtures and controls that create an atmosphere that is comfortable and visually dynamic, supporting the multiple modalities today’s educational, liturgical, governmental, and cultural spaces demand.
Custom Lighting
Rambusch works through its specialized lighting workshops to create beautiful, energy-efficient light for all settings and occasions, including new designs and updates of historic systems. Over the years we have implemented a vast array of fixture designs in all workable materials, housing light sources from flame to LED. Original fixtures can deliver more than one type of lighting from multiple hidden sources. New decorative fixtures can make a major statement, be concealed, or sit anywhere in between. From our design floor and metal and glass shops, Rambusch facilitates concept, experimentation, mock-ups, thermal and photometric testing, and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) approval - all prior to fabrication.
Engineered Lighting
Rambusch offers the widest choice of architectural lighting solutions in the industry. Many manufacturers base a reputation on one type of fixture or sheer size of operation. We, on the other hand, provide light where needed, never detracting from or adversely affecting the architectural environment. This aim has held steady through four generations of the firm’s management. As an integrated family, Rambusch engineered fixtures work in combination to achieve what one single fixture type cannot. To light spaces and help designers best use our tools in creating uplifting environments, Rambusch provides far more than hardware. In addition to building fixtures, our business is built on communication, collaboration and shared knowledge. While there are other approaches, ours has served Rambusch clients well for over a century.
