Custom Framing: 3 Reasons To Use Multiple Mats And Make A Stunning Statement
Custom Framing gives us an opportunity to pick a beautiful frame and make a visual statement with your art! One of the elements when we design a frame for someone’s art is using mats and here is why: A mat prevents your art from touching the glass, so it doesn’t stick to the glass and […]
Screen Print By Shepard Fairey
This screen print Target Exceptions by Shepard Fairey, who also brought us the 2008 Hope poster for President Barack Obama’s campaign. Over the years we’ve framed many of this artists work! Go to Obey and get lost in his themes of propaganda, portraiture and political power. For this limited edition print our client chose a […]
We Love The Variety Of Art We See And Frame Every Day
The variety of Art we see and get to frame every day here at our frame shop in San Francisco is amazing. For this artist proof of “Positive and Negative Space” by Roderick Wells we floated the print on a dark mat that visually continues the artist’s theme of space. The floating technique allows us […]
Fun Custom Frame with Stacked Frames
We love this playful @davidshringley painting and wanted to continue a fun and interesting design for the custom picture frame! We stacked heavily textured frames with a hint of color, used a white mat and floated the art in the new frame so it created even more subtle depth! At our picture frame shops here […]
Welded Steel Frame for Ulrike Arnold’s Art on Canvas
Ulrike Arnold has travelled to all continents to paint with stones and earth and meteorites on site, mixed with binder to produce works on canvas. We designed a custom welded steel frame with a heavy linen mat to keep with the organic material feel for this piece of art from Broken Arrow Caves in Utah. […]
Our Market Street Location will be closed December 7th – 9th
Our Market St location will be closed Tuesday-Thursday this week to finish our building’s seismic retrofit. Our Gough St shop will be open normal hours all week and we’d love for you to bring your projects in for framing! If you need to pick up a finished project at Market St, please give us a […]
E-Gift Cards and Gift Certificates for Custom Picture Framing
E Gift Cards and Gift Certificates for Custom Picture Framing! You know what’s never back-ordered, discontinued or victim of supply chain issues? E Gift Cards and Gift Certificates! Order your E-Gift Card here directly from your digital device and either send it directly in digital form or you can print it out and gift it […]
Welded Steel Frames
We love this beautiful art work by Kate Heiss and our client wanted to give it a special treatment with a truly custom built picture frame. We came up with a welded steel frame red and gold finish combo and used an 8 ply thick mat to balance out the frame and print and give […]
Supremes Special Formula White Bread Bag framed
We framed this Supremes Special Formula White Bread of history in a solid beveled hardwood walnut frame, adding that classic music memorabilia frame design with a triple mat showing some gold matching the color of the artwork. The holidays are really close now and now is the right time to drop off anything you’d like […]
Lighthearted custom picture frames
These antique educational scrolls are so vibrant and fun to look at, so we wanted to keep and add to that vibe. We designed and built a unique custom picture frame made of two frames stacked together, carved green and clean painted hardwood for a modern edge. The scrolls were sown to bright blue fabric […]