We mount artworks in-house using acid-free materials throughout. We have specialist techniques for mounting parchments that compensate for their tendency to respond dramatically to changes in Relative Humidity.
Our in-house framing facility is fully equipped to frame to museum levels, whether it be a miniature on ivory or an over-size cartoon.
We can draw from a selection of stock mouldings, however we often order custom profiles to meet our client’s needs such as to match an historic frame. On the subject of historic frames, we can advise on their restoration and arrange for the work to be carried out by a highly skilled and experienced gilder/frame restorer. We can also arrange for new hand gilded frames.
When fitting artworks into frames we habitually seal both glass and backboard to exclude troublesome thrips, ‘thunderflies’. For glazing we routinely use low-iron glass as standard. This largely eliminated the unpleasant, slightly green tone of regular float glass used commercially.
We also provide a variety of other glazing options, including:
- The best Ultra-Violet filtering glass on the market (we had every offering tested with a transmission spectrometer) so as to minimise fading,
- High quality, coated, low-reflective glass to minimise distracting reflections,
- UV and low-reflective coatings can be combined with laminated glass to minimise the risk from breakage,
- Historic glass such as crown glass, cylinder glass or drawn glass – particularly valued when an artwork is being placed in an historic interior,
- V. filtering, low reflective, anti-scratch acrylic with a static dissipative coating (‘anti-static’) for providing the very highest levels of glazing while also minimising the weight.
National Army Museum
The studio has carried out large scale framing projects for temporary exhibitions and for permanent display. We recently carried out the framing of artworks for the National Army Museum, when they were re-hanging their main galleries.
The project saw us draw on our experience of very large frames when framing up the oil painting pictured. In this instance the custom lengths of moulding were delivered to the museum and the frame was assembled in situ.