When the Frame Just Clicks: Custom Framing a Magnolias Print in San Francisco

Custom framed Magnolias art print with rust-brown powder-coated frame and museum glass, Underglass San Francisco

Sometimes a frame just stops you. We were pulling options for a Magnolias print, a beautiful piece, rich in color, elegant in composition. And when we held a rust-brown powder-coated finish next to it, we looked at each other and that was it. The gold surfacing along the frame’s edges picked up the warmth in […]

Custom Framing in San Francisco – Joan Miró Lithograph

Some works ask for restraint. This lithograph, Homenatge a Joan Prats by Joan Miró (1971), carries a strong visual language: primary colors balanced with loose black linework and spontaneous marks. As a key figure in Surrealism and Modernism, Miró’s compositions often hold both energy and precision, which naturally guides the framing decisions. At Underglass Custom […]

Underglass Framing – When Frame Style And Preservation Comes Together

When Frame Style And Preservation Comes Together

    Want to know how we always bring frame style and preservation come together? Here is one example: That warm touch with hardwood custom picture frames…here at Underglass framing in San Francisco we have a love story with beautiful frames made out of hardwood. Walnut, maple, oak… For these Artista Samniego soothing oil based […]

Poster Framing in San Francisco at Underglass Custom Picture Framing

Bring in your concert posters for custom framing in San Francisco now! For this Wu-Tang Clan Oakland show poster our client took the artworks direction and chose a blue frame and added a black mat. We love this vibrant frame design! If you have a poster you want framed bring it to our San Francisco […]

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 A Painting With A Rough Paper Edge

At Underglass, we love framing paintings with a rough paper edge. When artists make a point of showing the edge of their paper we have a special technique to incorporate that edge into the frame design: By floating the paper of this abstract multilayered painting, we were able. to create some depth and show off […]

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 […]