Museum Picture frames
Museum picture frames for sale. Buy our custom reproductions of museum art frames for paintings personalized as you wish.
Museum Picture Frames for sale
Since 1905 our workshop has provided museum quality picture frames to the most important institutions around the world. Among them, there are Staatliche Museen (Gemäldegalerie) and Metropolitan Museum. For over a century, indeed, we have been involved in museum quality framing for the most famous master artworks. For instance, we have framed Leonardo, Raffaello, and Michelangelo. Find here many museum painting frames split by era, region, and price. If you need to encase your masterpiece with one of our superior museum art frames, you reached the right place. Down below we explain why you should buy a custom reproduction instead of an authentic frame. Also, we explain why custom frames are the true main characters of museum quality framing.
Museums generally commission high-quality frames, which require many hours of work and sophisticated skills. Our custom reproductions have to be practically identical to the authentic models. That makes our atelier a leader in the field of exclusive reproductions for museum quality framing.
Unique replicas for museum quality framing
Many masterpieces are framed with reproductions of museum style frames. However, because of wars and economic disasters, a significant number of museum art frames have been destroyed, lost, or even stolen. For this reason, museums need frame suppliers like us.
Moreover, frames were historically considered a complementary part of the painting. For this reason, in recent times, antique dealers started to sell them apart from their paintings to gain more money. This practice increased the chaos related to masterpieces without frames because once sold apart, an authentic museum frame would join another painting. Therefore an excess of greadyness has led the market of original antique frames to disruption.
Yet, many artworks are still frameless. As a consequence of this lack, antique frames have achieved considerable relevance for master painting collectors, nowadays. Indeed, museums and collectors strive to find suitable and coherent frames for their paintings. Furthermore, it’s quite complicated to adapt authentic museum art frames to artworks. The size rarely fits. In the next paragraph, we explain why we consider the resizing process a bad practice.
resizing Museum Art Frames: A bad practice
Buying authentic museum picture frames, and cutting and resizing them is not a good idea. On one hand, the models with few and small carvings are easy to downsize. After the cut, rejoining their sides together is not the end of the world.
On the other hand, the models with rich ornamentations are difficult to resize. For instance, it is very challenging to downsize Baroque frames with heavy and complex decorations. You’re never going to find a way to rejoin the four corners harmoniously as they were before cutting. A significant portion of the decorations would be lost. As a result, it comes to be almost impossible to create new corners with continuity in the ornate. Most of the time they look like cut flowers.
Sometimes, to please our clients, we do these kinds of interventions. Before cutting, though, we conduct a deep study, considering which kind of approaches would be better. The result is quite good, thanks to our long experience in the field. However, we think that should be the last option a collector should go for.
Furthermore, when you downsize authentic museum picture frames, you destroy their value. You could have bought a museum art frame, spent a lot of money, and lost almost all of it. In other words, nobody will pay you back the original price of a cut frame.
For this reason, we recommend buying reproductions of museum picture frames. You don’t waste money because they’re customized for your paintings. Indeed, they always are going to have the perfect size for your artwork. Also, you can avoid the tiring and never-ending search of finding the right antique frame. That could take ages and finally lead to a dubious result.
Authentic museum painting frames
Authentic museum picture frames can be adapted easily to paintings just in a few cases. Firstly, when they are just a bit bigger than the painting itself. In this case, a good frame restorer could add a thin, flat, gilded surface to the rabbet. This intervention would lengthen the width of the profile and, at the same time, downsize the frame’s sight. As a result, the new sight of the frame will coincide with the measurements of the painting.
Secondly, the frame you choose should have the right decorations. They have to match stylistically the gilded mat. On the contrary, you would ruin the whole composition’s style. For instance, museum picture frames significantly worked, with plenty of decorations, can contrast with the sobriety of the added mat. In other words, flat gilded surfaces around the painting are not the best fit for intricate motif decorations.
In short, adding a little gilded mat can be wise. When possible, it allows you to keep the frame intact and you don’t lose its value. But, out of the conditions just explained, it wouldn’t be a wise idea. For this reason, our advice is to buy reproduction frames. You are never going to face any kind of issues.
custom museum quality framing
Our most remarkable skill in the field of museum quality framing is the ability to realize custom reproductions of any size. Since we are totally in charge of the production, we can personalize our museum style frames in all their parts. As a result, we do follow any valuable advice that collectors give us. Nevertheless, we strongly recommend trusting in our taste and relying on our vast experience.
On one hand, we listen carefully to any client’s ideas, trying to put them all into practice. They can either be ornamentation changes, structural modifications, or finishing improvements. On the other hand, we advise collectors about the best possible solution, especially if their solution is not suitable under the practical aspect. Because, sometimes, they could have great ideas concerning aesthetic appeal, which could turn out to be significantly hard to realize. In the paragraph below, we get deeper into our museum quality framing service, describing in detail the differences between our three category prices.
Expensive and affordable museum painting frames for sale
On our site, you find three main categories of museum art frames: expensive, affordable, and low-price models. In general, institutions have the financial resources to order expensive frames. However, in certain cases, museums buy our affordable frames, as well. The latter come to be a crucial way to save money and maintain high quality because they are realized using the same techniques and materials as the first. In other words, affordable frames are just more sober and can be an even better choice to encase certain types of paintings. As a last option, we offer a category of super low-price reproductions of museum picture frames realized with accuracy and care for details.
In the last three decades, we have focused on the manufacturing of inexpensive museum art frames because of the economic crises and the new generations of customers. One after the other, crises, and new technology as well, overwhelmed the world economy. Therefore, we wanted to be prepared for the worst being able to deliver to new kinds of collectors an evoluted product that has to be more in tune with this new globalized world. In a single sentence: we had to lower the price adding value at the same time.
Furthermore, minimalist art influences constantly the interior design tastes of many. It is not a secret that architects and interior designers ultimately love the essential lines of minimalism. Consequently, we needed to be able to supply a kind of product suitable for the new trends, but always respecting the fundamentals of aesthetic beauty.
New materials and new technology are the keywords of our success. When you look deeply into any of the characteristics of our low-price museum picture frames, you’ll find out that they’re astonishing products with the fortunate feature of costing much less. Down below we explain how we achieved that.
Valuable but inexpensive museum style frames
So, how did we manage to create value for a low price? The answer is simple: innovation. We love to be in constant research of new materials and new techniques. Firstly, we use recycled materials like wood pulp which allow us to build museum art frames with a low impact on the environment.
Secondly, we skip many ancient techniques that became obsolete. For instance, we use oil gilding instead of water gilding when possible. It’s just a matter of easing the work without losing quality. For all these reasons, our museum picture frames for sale are very affordable. They simply need cheaper materials and fewer hours of work to be realized.
In conclusion, our workshop can either supply expensive museum quality picture frames for exclusive collectors or museum painting frames manufactured to be inexpensive but durable at the same time. Click on the button below to see yourself the vast offer of our museum quality framing service.