Two Pan Am Maps, Two Frames and a Customer Who Nailed It at Underglass in San Francisco
Not every great framing idea starts with us. Sometimes the best ones come from the person sitting across the counter. A client came in with two Pan Am Clipper Jet flight route maps from the late 1970s, the kind of maps Pan Am handed passengers on transatlantic flights, printed in vivid yellow and blue, with […]
Framing Vintage San Francisco Cards at Underglass – Mid-Century Style, Art Deco Frame
When you bring us your art to frame, we always draw inspiration from what you bring us. These retro style 1950s San Francisco tourist cards with Chinatown, the Cable Car, the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate made that easy. They are a little piece of mid-century San Francisco and they called for a frame that […]
A Summer Night Fine Art Print by Abelardo Favela -Framed at Underglass in San Francisco
Some of the most beautiful fine art print framing we do in San Francisco starts with a piece that has a clear mood and a strong point of view. This limited edition print by Mexican artist Abelardo Favela is exactly that: a young man at the bathroom sink with his dog, a moon visible through […]
Framing San Francisco’s BART, Caltrain and Muni Cards at Underglass
There is a particular kind of joy in framing something that is just ours. Not a famous artist, not a rare find from somewhere far away, in this case just BART, Caltrain and Muni. A client brought us a set of three cards and wanted them framed together. Designing around something playful The cards already […]
Why Conservation Framing Matters – A 1964 Cyrk Poster at Underglass
Some things get kept because they are valuable. Most things get kept because they mean something. A poster from a trip, a ticket from a show, a print someone found in a flea market and could not put back down. Nobody calculates the resale value before they decide to hold onto it. They just know […]
Colorful Custom Picture Framing in San Francisco – Pink Lacquer Frame For Small Art On Canvas
When you bring us your art to frame, we always draw inspiration from what you bring us. That is as true for a small canvas as it is for a large oil painting, and it is as true for a piece of ephemera as it is for a signed limited edition print. This small canvas […]
Our Pride Month Window at Underglass: Keith Haring, Harvey Milk and the Art of Remembering
We are a proudly LGBTQ+ owned frame shop in the heart of the Castro and Pride month is always personal for us. This year our windows tell a story in two pieces :one poster and one object; both framed and on view worth stopping to look at. Keith Haring — Ignorance = Fear Keith Haring […]
A Glitter Frame for Pride Month at Underglass in San Francisco
We are a proudly LGBTQ+ owned frame shop in the heart of the Castro, and Pride month is our month. This year we are celebrating it the way we know best — with a frame that goes all the way. The piece is SINNER ELLA’S FOOTPRINT by Mark Denton Esq., and when our client brought […]
Framing El Guardaropa by Leticia Tarragó at Underglass in San Francisco
When you bring us your art to frame, we always draw inspiration for the framing from what you bring us. So we landed at this scoop profile, rust and gold frame. Here is why: The print is numbered 55/100, pencil signed by Mexican artist Leticia Tarragó. Her work fits somewhere between the whimsical and the […]
Framing a Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Poster at Underglass in San Francisco
We are a frame shop in the Castro. The Grateful Dead are from the Haight. In San Francisco terms, that makes this one a neighborhood project. Last summer Dead & Company brought 60,000 people a night to Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field for three nights to celebrate 60 years of the Grateful Dead – a […]