Furnishings and Art Work: Where Innovation Meets Elegance

We provide services in designing and installing delicately executed mosaics, paintings, sculptures, liturgical furnishings, and other artwork. Our experts specialize in sourcing, design, 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.

Art Metal Work

Since 1919, Rambusch has produced art metal, molding and shaping materials into symbolic and functional forms. From initial design to completed objects, the company continues the tradition of communicating ideas and iconographic richness through its designs. One of the firm’s early underpinnings, Rambusch mechanics have worked practically every known metal — bending, stamping, brazing, cutting, and welding raw materials into resplendent works of art that are relevant and useful on a daily basis. We renovate and restore the noble metals: gold, silver, and platinum. 

Our artisans create new liturgical furnishings and other central elements for liturgical spaces, including tabernacles, candle stands, and processional crosses. From decades past, we are often called upon to adapt our original works, recreating complete liturgical furnishings from surviving doors, frames, and other surviving elements.

Liturgical Furnishings

Rambusch has long produced liturgical furnishings and objects for worship and secular environments, designing and shaping materials into symbolic and functional forms. From initial design to completed objects, we still weave the traditional thread of communicating ideas and iconographic richness through our work. Our artisans continue to create new liturgical furnishings and other central liturgical elements such as tabernacles, altars, ambos, fonts, candle stands, and processional crosses. All unique to your tastes and needs; nothing is ever standard. We are often called upon to adapt our original works from decades past or reclaim and recreate complete furnishing sets from stonework, doors, frames, and other surviving pieces. Through our services, our clients have an exceptionally wide range of forms, materials, colors, textures, and lighting effects to work with. By working closely with them to narrow down and use these effectively, we help them create truly communal and religious atmospheres that aid individuals in their personal practice of worship.

Mosaic Design and Creation

For the design and installation of mosaic projects of any size, Rambusch handles the logistics that go into producing both small and large-scale fabrication and installation. We plan, design, and cartoon in our facility. Fabrication, andamento (the directional trend of the mosaic tiles), sectioning, and projection (for compound curved surfaces) are performed under our close supervision in Italy or in other studios near project locations. This same highly detailed process goes for any mosaic commission we undertake, from the smallest adornment to the 90-ft gold dome of the National Shrine.

Over the decades, we have developed long-term relationships within the mosaic art communities. This valuable resource of talented, responsible individuals allows us to provide experienced craftspeople and specialists in many disciplines all over the world. They execute our specific designs and work under our direct supervision. Our partnerships have been forged through many successful projects. For mosaic, painting, decorating, and unique sculpture, our long-standing associations are steadfast resources to provide clients the benefits of greater design fabrication scope under Rambusch design management and supervision.

Mosaic Conservation

Mosaic is a delicate art that, by its very nature, is prone to deterioration if not properly cared for. This is especially true of exterior mosaic panels. Since the removal of most artworks can be disastrous, Rambusch is well-positioned to service and repair existing mosaics in situ using our associated technicians, who are trained to assess tile and mortar conditions and then maintain, stabilize, and document mosaic art. Even if one does not require repair and wholesale replacement of loose and missing tesserae, proactive maintenance is the most important step to conserving mosaics for future generations to enjoy. Rambusch is happy to provide consultation in the care, repair, and restoration of many of the art forms found in liturgical and public settings.