Frame Your Wedding Memories Your Way – Playing Cards, Polaroids and a Design Built Around Love
Not every wedding memory lives in a photograph. Some of the best ones are written on the back of a playing card by someone who loves you. Bella and Jacob came to us after their wedding with 80 playing cards, each one filled with a note or a wish from a guest, and a handful […]
How We Design Around the Art – A Graphite at Underglass in San Francisco
Every piece of art has a mood. Our job is to read it and build a frame design that supports it without getting in the way. This graphite drawing by Baltimore artist Josh Chance is a good example of how that process works in practice. His intricate maze-like work captures a kind of beautiful anxiety, […]
Framing Vintage San Francisco Cards at Underglass – Mid-Century Style, Art Deco Frame
When you bring us your art to frame, we always draw inspiration from what you bring us. These retro style 1950s San Francisco tourist cards with Chinatown, the Cable Car, the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate made that easy. They are a little piece of mid-century San Francisco and they called for a frame that […]
Framing a Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Poster at Underglass in San Francisco
We are a frame shop in the Castro. The Grateful Dead are from the Haight. In San Francisco terms, that makes this one a neighborhood project. Last summer Dead & Company brought 60,000 people a night to Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field for three nights to celebrate 60 years of the Grateful Dead – a […]
When the Frame Is the Statement: Custom Framing an Impressionist Oil Painting in San Francisco
Sometimes a client walks in and says very little, but the piece they bring says everything. That’s what happened with this one. A small impressionistic oil painting – a bluebonnet landscape, 5×7 inches on canvas. A dirt path winding through wildflowers, a large tree anchoring one side. The kind of painting that makes you want […]
Giving a Small Piece More Presence
Giving a Small Piece More Presence In our custom frame shop in San Francisco, size doesn’t change the approach. This small illustration of a Fishwife smoked trout label has a lot of character. The design is playful, with daisies and a figure wearing a fish hat. We chose a walnut frame to bring in contrast […]
Holding Restraint Around Something Bold
In our custom framing San Francisco work, we often come back to a simple idea. Hold restraint around something bold and expressive so the work can fully speak. This recent project reflects that approach. The illustration by José MarÃa Rojas carries strong color, movement, and a clear point of view. At Underglass Custom Framing 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 […]
From Purchase to Presentation: How Our San Francisco Frame Shop Elevates Meaningful Artwork
See how custom shadowbox picture framing transformed a Gio Black Peter drawing on an MTA map. Discover how professional framing elevates artwork and makes you fall in love with it all over again. Open 7 days a week.
Museum Quality Framing for Contemporary Art
For this amazing hyperrealistic Animal Crossing painting by @erinrothstein we opted for a bold looking frame design that meets all the marks for a Museum quality frame and our client’s personal interior design taste.