Providing personal, professional service in custom picture framing and design.

Our Services include;

Preservation (Conservation) framing Frame restoration
Gold Leaf (water gilding) Needlework Framing
Shadowbox Framing Working with interior designers

Preservation Framing: Otherwise known as conservation framing, this is the system where art on paper is hinged onto a mount board with hand-made Japanese papers using a rice or wheat starch adhesive and placed between pure mats and backing. Usually called acid-free, the mat boards and backing are those made from cotton or purified alpha cellulose (lignin free). This is a technique designed to protect the work and make it easily removable and also includes glass that is ultraviolet filtering. When the art is on canvas, it is set into a frame sealed from contact with the painting and padded on its edge with a hard backing sealed into place.

Gold Leaf: Gilding frames with real gold is centuries old and uses a basic technique that is about as old. The bulk of available frame mouldings in gold are done with a metal leaf that is a mixture of copper and zinc but, for karat leaf, we do what's called water gilding. This is a matter of preparing the frame with gesso and clays and laying the gold onto it, piece by piece, then burnishing to a brilliance unlike anything else. Some areas are left matte, depending on design, and the finished frame can be toned and a patina added to suit that design. This is simply the nicest and most classic of all frame making.