Not Your Ordinary Frame!

Here at New Editions Gallery, we try to offer our clients a fun, unique, and personal custom picture framing experience. We have many traditional mouldings available, but today I thought I would share with you some of the more unique offerings available.

Squares

Brightly colored and patterned acrylics

Music and Drama

Funky Swirls

Modern StoneAge

Contemporary Framing for B&W Portait Photography

Here is an example of contemporary framing for a black and white portrait. Trust me, the white mat with black frame is not always the best choice! Rather than using any mat, we choose a black silk liner capped with a steel colored frame from the Larson-Juhl "Metro" series.

Mr. Shelbo

Here is Mr. Shelbo surrounded by a custom wrapped linen liner and a 5" wide Roma frame from their Gianni collection.

Junkyard Dog Completed

Here's Junkyard Dog in his new home! He is surrounded by chocolate suede and a Nurre Caxton Salon frame in antique black. We decided that turning the paper grocery bags from Krogers into a matboard was just a little beneath him now that he has been adopted.

Elle Decor 05/08

Did you get May's issue of Elle Decor yet? There were two photos that really captured my attention. The first one has the picture hanging in front of the window rather than on the wall. This is the second time in three months that I've seen this. (We'll probably see it arrive in Lexington in 2010!)

Secondly, what a great personal gallery! I love how the photos on the right are set on a shelf rather than hung ~I'm seeing a lot more of that as well lately. The art on the floor is just leaning up against eachother two and three deep. Love it!

I am Honored

I am continually amazed by what my clients entrust to my care for design and custom framing. This is a portrait of Mr. Shelbo, who is no longer with us, done in oil pastel by Debbie Graviss.

Tomorrow I will be designing a very special shadowbox to house a walking stick. The client's father escaped from a prisoner of war camp during World War II. This is the stick he used as he was crossing the mountains to freedom. She also has a photograph of her and her parents at the airport with the walking stick when he returned home safely.

New Nielsen Gilded Mouldings

Talk about people, I don't know about you but I love my UPS man! Look what came in the brown box today ~new Nielsen metal mouldings. These frames are made to look like wood but they are metal. What's so great about that? You can frame something HUGE and only have 5/16" frame around it! Here's the profiles and an example.