Custom picture framing · Scottsdale, Arizona
Fine Craftsmanship Is Always In Style.
Bring us the piece. Our designers will help you work through the frame, matting, glazing and conservation choices—from everyday photographs and prints to important artwork that needs more care.
At the design table
We start with the artwork, not a formula.
We usually start with proportion. How much frame can the piece carry? Does it need open space around it? Should the edge feel crisp, soft, deep, quiet or more decorative? Those questions get us moving in the right direction quickly.
Then we work through profile, finish, matting or liners, glazing and depth. A simple hardwood may be exactly right. Another piece may call for a closed-corner frame, gold leaf, a fabric-wrapped liner or a frame with a stronger period reference.
The finished frame should feel like it belongs with the piece. Sometimes that means restraint. Sometimes the frame needs a real presence of its own.
How We Design a Frame
The Frame Library
A Frame Library built over decades.
The collection grew over decades and expanded when Image & Frame acquired Framer’s Workshop. Today it ranges from contemporary mouldings and hardwoods to finished-corner frames, carved and gilded work, metal, leather, period profiles and unusual finishes.
We are not tied to one manufacturer or one look. We can move from clean maple to deep walnut, welded metal or a carved and gilded frame because the artwork comes first, not the catalog.
Client reviews
Clients come back for the design help as much as the framing.
Most clients do not frame things every day. They remember whether the process felt comfortable, whether the advice made sense and whether the finished piece felt right. That is what we hear most often in our reviews.
Read All Client ReviewsTheir expertise in aesthetics is top tier.
They took the time to help me design what the frames would look like with patience and great ideas.
This company can run with any project and beautifully executes the requests.
Conservation framing
Good framing also protects the piece.
A work on paper may need hinges, a mat or float presentation, glazing clearance and a clean backing package. Canvas brings a different set of questions: stretcher depth, tension, bracing and edge treatment. Textiles need their weight spread across a support instead of hanging from a few points.
Glazing is another practical choice. Glass is hard and stays flat; acrylic is much lighter and hard to break. Reflection control and UV filtering are separate decisions. We choose the materials from the piece, its size, condition, surface and where it will hang.
Go Deeper Into Conservation FramingGo deeper
What are you framing?
Choose the kind of piece you have. Each guide explains the design choices, how the piece is supported, when glazing is involved, what conservation questions matter and what actually happens in the shop.
If your piece does not fit one of these categories, bring it anyway. Unusual work is part of what a custom frame shop is for.
Talk With Us About ItSpecialty work
Some pieces need more from the shop.
A closed-corner frame, a large canvas, a woven textile and an antique poster all arrive at the bench differently. A deep shop gives us more ways to handle those differences. We know how to support the piece, how the frame needs to be built and when another specialist should be involved.
Closed-corner, carved and gilded frames
We work with specialist frame makers who carve, ornament, gild and finish frames by hand. Different makers have different strengths, so we choose the source according to the frame we are trying to make.
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Support is part of the design
A textile needs its weight spread across a support. Stitch mounting, fabric-covered boards, depth and glazing clearance are worked out from the textile itself.
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Oversized and technically complex work
As a canvas gets larger, the stretcher, bracing, frame depth, handling and installation all become more important. Large glazed pieces add the weight and breakage risk of the glazing to that conversation.
Explore Oversized Framing →Designers & trade
For project work, we keep the details organized.
We work with designers, art consultants and project teams on one piece or many. We can develop the framing, work from an approved selection and prepare samples. We also keep frames, mats, fabrics, glazing and repeat details organized as the project moves forward.
Trade ServicesLocations
Two Scottsdale studios. The project decides which one.
Old Town is the right starting point for high-end, valuable, conservation-sensitive or design-intensive work of any kind. North Scottsdale is a full-service giclée, artwork-capture and framing studio that is especially efficient for print-oriented projects that do not need Old Town’s enormous overall selection.
Old Town Scottsdale
7012 E Indian School RdScottsdale, AZ 85251
Monday–Saturday · 10–5
Appointments recommended
North Scottsdale
14201 Hayden Rd, Suite B-3Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Monday–Friday · 10–5
Appointments preferred