Custom Framing Delicate Papers: How to frame, preserve and protect your art
You are ready to frame a delicate paper like a book page, an antique document or a handmade decorative paper? Here is how to frame, protect and preserve your art with a new custom picture frame! For this beautiful handwritten and painted piece on very thin paper our client wanted a contemporary style that shows […]
Art From All Over The World Framed At Underglass!
We love framing all sorts of art here in San Francisco. Especially now in the summer we get to see art from all over the world, like this one from Italy. When our client brought in this beautiful painting by Antonello Radi we really wanted to frame it in a rustic style frame. We love […]
Art Deco Frame For Ted Geisel Painting AKA Dr. Seuss
We just finished this frame for “The Stag at Eve” print by Ted Geisel, known under the pen name Dr. Seuss. The Art Deco elements of the painting inspired us to use a frame from that period and keep the darker backgrounds also as the color guide for our mat! Framed with museum quality and […]
Happy Cinco De Mayo From Underglass
Happy Cinco De Mayo from Underglass ! We wanted to share an event that is happening today in San Francisco in support of Carnaval SF’s Cinco De Mayo Celebration. Carnaval San Francisco, with roots in the Mission District since 1978, has never had a brick-and-mortar space to call its own. Since 2009, we have been […]
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 […]
Powerful Woodblock Art Framed
When we saw this powerful woodblock and stencil volcan fuego art we knew we had to showcase it up to the edges of the paper! So we floated it on a mat with a fairly narrow margin to the frame. One of our techniques to design your frame projects and keep the attention always to […]
Acrylic Custom Frame and “Pixelated” Mat Cut
Frames are not always made from wood or metal! For this limited edition Susan Kare print we chose a clear acrylic custom picture frame and “pixelated” mat cut. Susan is a famous Apple artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM. We love being picture framers here […]
All the wonderful pieces of art we framed towards the end of this year!
Thank you San Francisco for letting us frame so, so many of your photos, paintings, prints, art and memories! We are truly humbled by the support and love you have shown is during these past special years. 2021 challenged all of us in ways we couldn’t imagine – here is to 2022! Your team from […]
Framing Colorful Art
Here are two completely different approaches to framing art that is colorful! When we start a design for a custom picture frame for any art we always try to get a feel for what works best with the art and what our client likes. For the image with the yellow to orange small painted squares […]
Unconventional Framing with Traditional Japanese Woodblock Style Frame
We are honored to be sought out for conceptual projects like this! For this very sentimental, exceptionally rare, unreleased, holy grail of Pearl Jam poster we had to come up with a very special custom picture frame. We wanted to pay tribute to the traditional Japanese woodblock style frame with an embossed black silk mat […]