OUR CHURCH STREET LOCATION IS CLOSED BUT…..

YES, IT IS TRUE! After many, many years of Underglass Custom Picture Framing on Church Street we had to move. Our building is undergoing substantial earthquake retrofitting and our beautiful old store will not be the same, nor will it fit our equipment anymore. Our new home will be much larger and brighter! And we […]

Great Art from Mexico!

We have been getting so much great art from Mexico! All different styles and all different mediums, keep supporting artists and keep em comin!  We wanted to fully show the edges of this oil painting on canvas and designed a small gap between art and floater frame.

Framing Happy Patterns by San Francisco Artist Elliott C Nathan

Go see Elliott C Nathan’s murals at 15th and Church Street in San Francisco As soon as these pieces came into the shop, we recognized them as our neighbor directly across from us and his rad garage door that everyone is always stopping to take photos in front of! See the original street art murals […]

Making a faded paper look great in a welded steel frame

We are in love with the way the paper faded on this antique architectural drawing! We hand-charcoaled the bevel of the mat and used a slick welded steel frame. This custom frame with a UV protecting glass and museum quality mat will help preserve the art from fading more and enjoying it at the same […]

Pantone bag framed!

We framed this Pantone bag that was signed by their Executive Director, Leatrice Eiseman!  In a museum quality framing style, this  piece is floated in a seamless acrylic frame I’m a matching color with a black lip to pull your eye to the text. We love all the great projects we get to be part […]

Gamera – Framed in museum quality!

We framed this cool print of Gamera at the Golden Gate Bridge in a natural teak frame!  For this custom framing job we kept overall clean lines, added a dark mat for drama and thin line of green in the mat for color play. Now this lives up to our museum quality framing standards!

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day! We have been custom framing so many great art pieces lately! For this very sweet and colorful painting we kept it nice and neutral with a black silk mat and an aluminum frame so your eyes are drawn right into the canvas. There are so many choices even for canvas framing!

Mark Twain Lion vs Jay Z Tiger

You gotta zoom in on the faces… this piece of art is called “Mark Twain Lion vs Jay Z Tiger.” We floated the paper it in a beautiful reclaimed pine frame from our good friends at Urban Ashes out of Detroit.   

Happy Thanksgiving from Underglass!

Happy Thanksgiving from your neighborhood custom frame shop! Underglass will observe Thanksgiving Day! We are closed Thursday 11-23-2017 and will be open again 11-24-2017 with our regular hours from 11-7pm. Come on in to place those Holiday orders now!!