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Click on the reel to see this crazy double sided, rotating, frame-within-a frame we just did!

Rotating double sided frame-within-a-frame!!! O_o #customframıng

Our first Medium article!
“Soggy Art and Saving If From Flood & Water Damage”. Just in time for all that rain yesterday!

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Soggy Art & Saving It First aid for flood and water damage to your art

“Your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker!!! Urban in a black and silver Gramercy frame on a day where it’s as cold as out there in Downtown Montreal

frame matting

At first glance: “Oh cool! You framed an original newspaper clipping of the original moonwalk!”
Take a look again friends (2nd photo). Not just a flat clipping! We framed the ENTIRE NEWSPAPER baby!

No glue, no tape, no adhesive at all, you could take that newspaper out of the frame and read it, same as the day it was printed, if you really wanted to! Not a single fibre of that paper was altered in the framing of it.

Sometimes we get to frame historically significant and important Canadian art stuff. Horatio Walker, The Ice Cutters, Île d’Orléans. circa 1904.

Here’s a fun one! Someone asked me to build a frame to display collectable decks of playing cards. It had to be conservation quality (so cards had to remain pristine, mint condition. NO glue or other adhesives), and the frame had to be easily openable in order to rearrange the decks, or add more decks as he got them.

Beautiful antique map. *very* delicate. “But if it’s so delicate, how do you hold it up in the frame?” You say. “Also, why does it seem so shiny” you say. Well the answer is the same for both questions! Look ma! NO TAPE! In fact, no adhesives touch this map at all. This map is held up by the power of static electricity! A sheet of Mylar (do they even call it Mylar anymore?) is covering the map and the Mylar is attached to that lighter grey-green mat. Then the brighter green is floated on top, and that’s how you frame really delicate stuff without hurting it!

Kind of loved doing this one! Star embossed frame, to match the star motifs in the poster, and a FUCHSIA CRUSHED VELVET mat. Yep, your heard me. Fuchsia. Crushed. Velvet. (Yep. I totally had to look up how to spell fuchsia)

Pretty little purple clouds. Floatmounted to show off the papers pretty deckled edges. Art purchased in Montmarte Paris. Name on the packaging paper: beRo artiste #framing #fotiouframes #floatmount #customframing #montreal #conservationframing