FRAMING AND RESTORATION
For more than 30 years we have been restoring, altering and reproducing frames for clients around the world, including art dealers, museums and interior designers.
We only ever use traditional techniques and work with expert wood carvers, gilders and cabinet makers.
View some examples of our work below.
16th century Netherlandish frame
We were commissioned to produce a reproduction of a 16th century Netherlandish frame for a painting by French 16th century artist Antoine Caron.
Hand painted pelmet
We were commissioned to hand paint a pelmet for a children's half tester bed.
Reproduction sixteenth century Italian frame.
This was a reproduction sixteenth century Italian frame that we were commissioned to produce for an important 16th century painting.
Reproduction frame for Monet's La Promenade
This frame was produced by us to frame Monet's painting La Promenade.
Italian 16th century frame with sgraffito
Images show the Italian 16th century frame with sgraffito that we made.
Alteration to a 17th century Spanish frame for a Picasso painting.
This 17th century Spanish frame with faux marble polychrome frieze required alteration to fit a Picasso painting.
Reproduction Italian 16th century frame.
18th century hand carved English frame for a Stubbs painting.
A fluted hand carved reproduction of an antique 18th century English frame with beading and acanthus corners.
Reproduction 16th century frame
We were commissioned to produce this reproduction frame based on photographs of the antique Italian 16th century frame, since sold.
Antique framing restoration for Yale Centre of British Art
Here we were asked to clean this 17th century antique frame for The Yale Centre for British Art.
Flemish polished oak and parcel gilt reproduction frame for a painting by Peter Paul Rubens
We produced this solid oak reproduction frame from an antique period Flemish design.
Reproduction Baroque cassetta frame for Caravaggio's The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew, 1606-1607
Hand carved replica of an antique Italian late 16th-early 17th century Baroque cassetta frame.
A reproduction of a 17th century Spanish frame
We produced this reproduction of a 17th century Spanish frame for our client using the smaller antique frame shown in our image as a reference.
Reproduction of an English Carlo Maratta frame for the States
A large reproduction 18th century frame.
Italian reproduction frame with sgraffito decoration
This image shows a corner detail of an Italian 16/17th century reproduction frame we produced.
Regilding of the Paston Treasure auricular frame - Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
This was an original hand carved 17th century auricular frame that we received after having been stripped back to the wood.
Reproduction 17th century Italian cassetta frame for Johannes Van Bronchorst – Private Collection.
Here we produced a copy of a 17th century Italian cassetta frame.
Reproduction Florentine 15th century tabernacle frame for Sandro Botticelli
We were asked to produce this tabernacle frame for Botticelli’s 'The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child'.
Reproduction 16th century Italian cassetta frame with pastiglia ornament.
Here we have a water gilded replica of an antique 16th century Italian cassetta frame which we produced for our client.
Reproduction Italian 17th century frame with corner & centre arabesques
This reproduction Italian 17th century frame had a sienna coloured painted ground with gilded rails; corner and centre arabesque detailing to the frieze.
Reproduction of a late 16th to early 17th century Italian walnut frame - Bartolomeo Manfredi
Made from solid walnut with moulded rails.
Restoration & alteration to a 17th century frame
This beautiful antique 17th century frame with hand carved corners, centres and gilded scrollwork required altering to fit a canvas.
Seventeenth century Italian reproduction frame with hand-painted frieze
Here we were asked to produce a replica of an existing 17th century Italian cassetta frame.
17th century ebonised Pearwood frame for The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This reproduction frame is made of Pearwood with a hand carved and gilded sight edge; the gilt section creates a decorative border around the painting and helps to punctuate where the artwork ends and frame starts.