Period Framing

Period Framing We framed this 3″ x 3″ antique miniature oil painted portrait in a 2″ wide antique white gold scoop profile. The frame suits the period of the painting as well as the frame finish. White gold was more fitting for the blue/grey background of the portrait We antiqued the finish to make it…

Elegant Framing

Elegant Framing We framed this beautiful stylized landscape print on paper recently for an elegant home with a transitional style, so the finished product needed to fit with the environment. The image has a white border with a large artist’s signature at the bottom right corner, so we naturally floated it on a simpatico off-white…

Matting Design

Matting Design Expect the unexpected. We framed a black & white photo of a client’s children on the beach. They are looking off to the right, and the client wanted to do something different and unexpected with this piece, so we made the matting even all around except for the right side, making it twice…

Float mounting Photographs

Float mounting Photographs We recently float mounted a series of black and white family photos. Pictured here is a 4×6″ photo that we dry mounted and added a 4ply reverse bevel lift underneath. We floated it on a white rag board with 3/8″ float space to see all around; and lastly we added rag board…