Fine Art Framing in San Francisco

Fine Art Framing in San Francisco at Underglass Custom Picture Framing: We loved picking this beautiful frame with our client for their amazing painting. The colors, the shape and the mood in this piece made it the perfect match for the frame. What a great addition for our client’s home! With decades of picture framing […]

Conservation Framing A Vintage Newspaper in San Francisco

If you are thinking of conservation framing a vintage newspaper in San Francisco this is the right post for you! At our frame shop here in San Francisco, we recently framed this vintage newspaper from 1918, announcing the Peace agreement and ending WW1. Old paper like this one, naturally ages quite a bit over the […]

Custom Frame For Colorful Collage – San Francisco Frame Shop

For this colorful paper and cardboard collage our client wanted to go with a modern frame that has a warm touch. We noticed the white edges on each paper strip of the art and looked for a frame that resembles that.  At our frame shop here in San Francisco we have hundreds of frame samples […]

Framing Vintage Decals and Collector’s Items in San Francisco

Framing antique items like these vintage Meyercord decals is always great fun! For this Chilly Willi cartoon collector’s sticker set we floated the piece to show the wear and tear and create some depth in the frame. The actual vintage custom frame design is a wood frame with a brushed silver edge. As always and […]

Custom framing more 1970s Rock’n Roll vintage newspaper

Remember the 44 year old @iggypopofficial illustration we posted here a few weeks ago? We just build another custom picture frame here at our San Francisco frame shop: Legendary Lou Reed, photographed by @therealmickrock and illustrated by Bobby Grossman for his project Kellogg’s Cornflakes – die originalen. We are so happy we could help conserve […]

Framing and Conserving a 70’s Newspaper page

Here is another custom frame we finished for a Patti Smith newspaper page. We took the little hint of red from the print and added it back into the frame design with a sliver of red in the under mat. With a uv filtering, museum quality glazing we added that extra brilliance for conservation and […]

Custom Framing An Old Newspaper Ad – Museum Quality Framing Looking Contemporary

Custom framing this 44 year old 1978 New York Rocker, Rock’n Roll illustration Kellogg’s sugar corn pops with Iggy Pop. This illustration was photographed by Bill King and collaborated with Bobby Grossman . We wanted to preserve this antique newspaper print to our best conservation framing abilities and make it look great. We hinged the […]

Choosing a frame for your art

Choosing a frame for your art, any print, photo or illustration can sometimes be a challenge with all the choices we have! For this butterfly graphic design art print we didn’t have that problem at all! We chose a black ornate lacquered frame with a solid black mat that provides good space between art and […]

Framing Vintage Style Illustrations

Framing a vintage illustration, botanical posters and other educational prints can make a great addition to your art on your walls! Come show us your next framing project, we are your frame shop in San Francisco, framing for our communities since 1982! A gold colored fillet seemed to be the little extra touch for this […]