Rambusch Lighting

Designing and making objects for over a century, our heritage is our dedication to the visual environment. 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.

Since its incorporation on December 17, 1898, the Rambusch Company has remained a small family business producing high-quality, custom-made objects and interiors to suit a wide range of clients. Over a century in existence, the Company has designed and executed more than 45,000 commissions in ecclesiastical arts, church interiors, stained glass, lighting, historic restoration, conservation, replication, art metal, and mosaic.

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.

Rambusch’s work is not limited to one specific method or medium. Commissions span genres and scales, from an Episcopal bishop’s gold and enamel ring to a stained glass window the length of a football field to a sixty-foot tall sanctuary wall sheathed in gold Venetian mosaic. Lighting projects range among state capitols, casinos, airports and the Decorative Arts Galleries of the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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.

Our design style springs from a creative process in which imaginative solutions correspond to client means. This interplay of art, design, and craft lives in the time-honored guild tradition, now a rarity in the United States. This is the distinction of every Rambusch commission.

The craftspeople at the heart and soul of the firm have had opportunities to work in nearly every technique and medium. In all cases, this work has been completed with a collaborative spirit, continuing the age-old tradition of craft organization where artisans work together to achieve what one single individual could not.

Our five workshops are housed in a 45,000 square-foot studio. Here, forty employees from thirteen nations complete work both individually and as a team, depending on project scope. Rambusch is unique in today’s world of specialization, in that it is the firm’s particular interest to delve into a number of areas simultaneously. Ironically, it is this diversity in talent and capability that allows Rambusch to focus so intently upon the specific needs of each of its clients. Everything is made to order, and so everything is finely tuned to match the customer’s expectations.

We maintain the philosophy that great work results from close collaboration among the client, designer, and craftspeople, building upon the strengths of all three. We have always worked together with the trades, integrating design and expertise into the fabric of any architectural setting.