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. […]

Modern Art with Classic Ornate Frame and Linen Mat

We love Turin based Artist Federico Cortese and his complex pieces of art. For this visually striking psychedelic octopus painting our client was happiest with an ornate gold painted frame and a classic linen mat that supports the texture of the painting and gives a rich feel to the overall picture frame design we came […]

Framing a Cross Stitch

We used a heavy linen mat to continue the texture of this cross stitch art . The orange wooden frame plays on the muted color pallet of the art itself and the gray of the mat. We are always excited to come up with a frame design for your and loved the opportunity to handwrap […]

A Dog’s Portrait in Colorful Lacquer Frame

We loved this canvas painting of our clients dog . The pink color of the ears inspired us for the frame design! We used a traditional shaped frame in a fun lacquer finish with a black fillet for this great family portrait. We know we are so lucky to have all these wonderful pieces of […]

Underglass Featured in Art World News Magazine

Thanks to Art World News for mentioning us and our little custom frame design when we framed a chunk of the Berlin Wall painted by artist Thierry Noir! We used a steel welded shadowbox and floated the object and dark black silk and finished it off with a Museum Anti Reflection Acrylic. All done here […]

Salon style art frames!

We loved framing these salon style round art frames for the award winning interior design studio Redmond Aldrich Design here in the Bay Area. At Underglass Custom Picture Framing we are happy to be part of our art community and thankful for the support from our neighbors and friends in San Francisco. We are here […]

Ornate Frames, Contemporary Style

We needed a heavy, dramatic frame for a heavy, dramatic charcoal piece and we thought this dark ornate contemporary style custom frame is perfect! Zoom in on that moon! We may not have made it onto this Castro map, but Market St did, so almost! Check out all the landmarks, you’re bound to recognize some. […]

Classic Gold Frame for Certificates

Certificate Custom Framing doesn’t have to be always a black satin finish frame and a white mat. On many degrees or official papers it is the perfect look! For this University of Virginia Certificate we opted for a classic gold frame with complementing gold fillets and an off white mat. The softness of the printed […]

Oversized, contemporary whitewash ash wood floater frame for Acrylic painting

This is one of those pieces you have to make sure you client can fit through their door! We used a contemporary style clean whitewash Ash floater wood frame for this roughly 7’x7’ acrylic painting on canvas. Floater Frames are perfect for canvas art, mounted art and stretched fabrics too. We have many options for […]

Framing art prints for a “clean” look

We loved designing and framing these two prints here in our San Francisco Frame shops. The artists both chose to print on beautiful art paper with an interesting edge that we definitely wanted to show. So we hinged the papers to a mat that lifted the art up and kept the rest of the frame […]