3 Examples How Art Inspired Our Frame Choice
Here are 3 examples how art inspired our frame choice! Each of these unique paintings gave us enough inspiration and direction for our custom frame design. When we start looking at a new framing project we often look for texture, highlights, color and shapes in the art. For the first image, Danys y Liethis, 2005 […]
Conserving Prints and Paintings with Museum Quality Frames!
When we get prints and paintings to frame we want to conserve them and we still have the choice between so many custom frame designs! From ornate to contemporary frames, with endless color and shape options, with or without mat and many more factors to consider. We love all the art we get to frame […]
Fun Framing Project!
This fun framing project for a sardine knit-work piece brought lots of smiles to us ! We used bright red, extra deep shadowbox walls to keep it as light and playful as the art. We love building custom picture frames for all sorts of art and objects! A shadowbox like the one in this photo […]
Custom Frames We Just Finished This Week
Our custom frame shops here in San Francisco are busy! This week we finished building frames for a beautiful, delicate glass sculpture that was completely broken to pieces in shipping. We were able to reassemble the entire piece and create this deep shadowbox to show respect to what is still an amazing piece! For the […]
Billy Idol 80’s Poster Framed
Here’s an amazing beat up Billy Idol poster we framed! We love the worn look from years and years pinned up to the wall! Our black frame with a silver line at the edge finishes this vintage look and cleans up in a nice way. This piece has huge sentimental value and we are so […]
Photography And The Art Of Framing
As custom picture framers we love the combination of photography and the art of framing. For this amazing photo of what might be a starling we took inspiration from the wings of the bird and chose a frame with detail that mimics the feel of the feathers. We rounded out this classic looking picture frame […]
Float Mounted Watercolor
Zoom into this watercolor we just framed and discover the mood and little details apart from the mushroom! For this custom wall frame we float mounted the painting on a mat and chose a textured frame that picks up the shape and detail in the mushrooms! We love our job as custom picture framers in […]
New Year – New Framing Projects!
The New Year started out with finishing this complex framing project for our Local 38. We handsewed these beautiful antique handmade banners on fabric mats and built three walnut shadowbox frames to give them a new housing. The custom frames are 5, 6 and 7 foot tall! These banners hung for decades in their old […]
Colorful, Beautiful Bird Themed Art Custom Framed
We are so happy with these three custom frames we just built, and they happened to be all for bird themed art! A custom fabric wrapped hardwood shadowbox is what this beautiful South African place mat desired for the first image. Image Two: We sewed a colorful peacock feather fan onto a hand wrapped silk […]
Gold Tone Design for Antique Rice Paper Art
We love these antique rice paper prints designer friends from Redmond Aldrich Design brought in. Their vision for this custom picture frame design was perfect, a gold brass look for the actual frame is all this frame projected needed! We used all conservation and museum quality materials so it will protected for many, many years […]