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Lunch & Learn: Rambusch - The First 100 Years
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On December 3rd, join Viggo Bech Rambush and Barbara S. Christen for a discussion on Rambusch: The First 100 Years, 1898-1998, written by the late Catha Jackson Grace.
The book chronicles the growth of the Rambusch Decorating Company, an independent family business started in 1898 by Danish-born Frode Christian Valdemar Rambusch in New York. Discover how Frode expanded his business from decorative paintings and murals to include lighting design, fostered collaborations between dozens of artisans and well-known architects, and laid the foundation for his firm’s impact on many of the City’s iconic buildings.
Currently, the fourth generation of leaders fosters similar collaborations between architects, designers, and craft studios, leading efforts to revive decorative arts in the construction and finishing of our nation's buildings.
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About the Speakers:
Viggo Bech Rambusch is CEO emeritus of the Rambusch Decorating Company and a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society. Rising through the ranks from apprentice to director of the lighting division, he later became CEO and led the firm for thirty years.
Barbara S. Christen is an architectural historian and editor who has published several works about the American architect Cass Gilbert and specializes in landscape and campus planning history. Her published work includes Cass Gilbert, Life and Work: Architect of the Public Domain, which rose from her organization of the first national symposium to reevaluate Gilbert’s contributions to the American landscape. She also has edited several publications for the National Gallery of Art and other museums.
About the Author:
Catha Jackson Grace is the author of Rambusch: The First 100 Years. Educated at Smith College and New York University, Grace was the founder and national director of the Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records (COPAR) and the founder of the electronic database, the Catalog of Landscape Records (CLR), housed at Wave Hill, NY.
This Lunch & Learn is part of a three-part series created in memory of Catha Jackson Grace to highlight the work of Catha and other notable NYC architectural historians.
Venue: NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)
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