How Danielle Ruttenberg keeps sustainability at the center of Remark Glass – Edible Philly
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Danielle Ruttenberg: Heart of Glass
How Danielle Ruttenberg keeps sustainability at the center of Remark Glass
BY JOY MANNING | MARCH 31, 2024
AS A STUDENT at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Danielle Ruttenberg had a chance encounter that would shape the rest of her life. During a sculpture course, she was detoured through the “hot shop” on campus, where graduate students helped the sculpture students by ladling lava-like molten glass into the molds they’d made for a project.
“Glass captured my heart then and there,” she says. “I thought, ‘This is too cool to pass up. I’m already paying to be in school here; I want to learn how to do this.’” That semester, she switched her concentration to glass art.
Years later, Ruttenberg still works with glass every day. As the founder of Remark Glass, she’s the creative force behind the tableware, barware, lighting, and accessories that have made the brand a runaway hit. Remark has pieces for sale in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s gift shop.