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Hung straight, hung right: how we install on-site
Bring us the wall. We measure, mark, level, and hang, with the right anchors for plaster, drywall, brick, or concrete, and we do not leave until the piece reads true from every angle.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


Shipped worldwide: framing for galleries, museums, and collectors anywhere
Crating, customs paperwork, condition reports. A framed piece going to Lagos travels the same way it does to Logan Square. Meticulously.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


From workshop to wall: how white-glove delivery works in Chicago
How we hand-deliver framed work across Chicago. From workshop bench to your wall in ninety minutes, with our own people, in climate-controlled trucks.
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May 62 min read


Ornate gold for Cristina Martinez
An ornate gilded moulding for a contemporary print. When the figure inside it can carry the weight of a classical frame, give it the classical frame.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


Crimson lacquer + comic-textured liner for Sandra Chevrier
Crimson lacquer outside, comic-textured liner inside. When the frame argues with the artwork on first read, then agrees with it on close inspection.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


Hand-painted liner for Marcus Troy's Pieces of a Man #28
Hand-painted liner, mixed in the workshop. The case for not buying every finish off the shelf, when the title of the piece is asking the frame to do some holding.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


Raw stone floater: framing JC Rivera's '1'
A floater frame finished in raw stone. When the artwork is asking to feel suspended in air rather than boxed against the wall.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


Four frames, one print: framing Hebru Brantley's The Journeymen
Four prints, framed identically, hung as a quartet. The choreography of identical framing across a series, where any deviation reads instantly.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


Color-matched: framing Kayla May's Assurance
Color-matching a frame is not about repeating a hue from the artwork. It is about finding the color the print is already implying without showing.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


Two frames for Jess Owens-Young: gold and matte orange
Two frames for one artist: a deep gold for the still life, a matte orange for the abstract. Why we do not always match across an artist's wall.
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May 62 min read


Hebru Brantley's Family Argument, gold liner inside ornate black
Inner gold, outer black. The pairing is older than any of us, and it works on a contemporary canvas for the same reason it has worked for three centuries.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


A double frame for Floyd Strickland's Schoolboy2
Why we built two frames for one print. When the inner frame holds the artwork and the outer frame holds the inner frame, the math gets interesting.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read


Framing a Bisa Butler quilt: hand-painted liner inside ornate moulding
Hand-stitched cotton, dyed to the saturation of paint. We built a frame to match: a hand-painted liner inside ornate gilded moulding, formal enough to insist this is portraiture, not decoration.
Frame Chicago
May 62 min read
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