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Shop our most popular sizes and styles for digital photos to create a one-of-a-kind gift in minutes. Stores Support Sign in Cart. A million custom framed pieces and counting. Moulding Handcrafted with premium materials. If you click the golden-ratio button, the site will suggest the right frame based on the size of your artwork. Posters and prints can also be sent to Level's studio for framing.
Note to music fans: The site specializes in framing vinyl records. Each of the streamlined frames comes with hardware and hanging instructions. Artifact Uprising also offers non-frame options, such as wood photo ledges and photo hangers. The company will also print artwork and photos on a selection of nine paper types, canvas, Plexiglas, or aluminum. Customers can choose from a large variety of frames and mats and take advantage of retouching, mounting, and glazing options.
Decoration Renovation Conversation Shopping. Architectural Digest Clever. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. But custom framing is a lot pricier. The journey through adulthood is paved with expensive inconveniences one must perform to be considered a functional, responsible grown-up.
These inconveniences include scheduling your own dentist appointments, dropping off your dry cleaning, and the less imperative but just as annoying obligation to frame all your art.
Historically, a frame has been an architectural feature, meant to preserve a work and integrate it into a room. During the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe, frames were mainly commissioned by churches or wealthy families. The ascendance of online framing companies like Framebridge, Art. However, the perception that custom framing is too pricey is also a symptom of a different reality: Millennial consumers — long past their poster-hanging days — have less money than previous generations.
Young adults are decorating homes and apartments with more budget-friendly art. To demystify the process of framing, I spoke with custom framers — both big box chains and mom-and-pop shops — and found that the seemingly astronomical prices have a bit to do with the price of labor and expertise a local framer can offer, but more than anything, it has to do with options.
The fewer options a business offers, the more able they are to order in bulk, therefore cutting down costs. Klostermeyer has owned Design Frames, a local custom frame shop in Falls Church, Virginia, for 50 years. Klostermeyer offers 2, different frames at his shop, along with hundreds of mats and specialty fabric matting options.
He also gets custom moldings from eight different vendors. Wendee Mai of Framing in Brooklyn says her shop offers between 1, and 1, frames, hundreds of mats, and she uses molding from four or five different vendors.
The shop also offers different kinds of glazing, both glass and acrylic, and the cost of those depends on how much UV protection a customer wants. Although this is less than many local framers, it is still a vast, expensive-to-maintain selection, which is perhaps why they are losing out to online framing services like Art. Last year, they closed 94 Aaron Brothers standalone stores. At Framebridge, a service that lets you mail in pieces to be framed for a fixed price, customers can choose from fewer than 60 frames and 20 different mat colors.
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