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Why
entrust your framing to us?
We are a long
standing family run business in Penzance,
having traded in the town for several years, and
one of the first on the internet offering custom cut mounts for
delivery in the UK . Our framing shop has
been designed to make it easier for customers, you will find our
impressive choice of board and frame mouldings,
plus pictures and prints, and friendly, helpful
staff!
We can do most framing jobs. All work is
done in our own workshops.
We have the latest
computer controlled mount cutting equipment, and highly skilled and
experienced framers.
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We are evaluating new Visualisation software for
customers at the shop counter so you can see and compare
framing examples on your actual picture.
Click here for full info |
We have amongst our customers
Royal Academy artists, local artists, museums, resellers and of
course our valued local customers who come in our high street shop.
Online customers from all walks of life
throughout the UK. As well as household name customers and
institutions, our customers also include photographers, artists, and
resellers as well as regular customers for individual frames and
mounts who appreciate our good service and value. Our online mount
cutting and online framing is popular with discerning all over the
UK, and most web site items can also be ordered by telephone.
We are
contributors to the Framers Knowledge Base (framing oracle)
and members of the Framers Forum. We were members of the Fine Art Trade Guild for many years until 2008, when we realised
that the Guild no longer represented the interests of the retail
framing industry or our particular customers.
We
make frames - We cut mounts
We have full time specialist
picture framers and fully equipped workshops for your peace of mind if you are leaving work with us.
Whether you are an artist exhibiting, or a customer awaiting
a frame, we want you to feel that your art is in safe hands. We use
top quality industry standard equipment, which is frequently
maintained and our staff have considerable framing experience
between them, making 1,000s of bespoke
frames per year plus bulk orders for artists/galleries and the trade
and maintain a
consistent knowledge about the quality of work and understanding of
the standards of modern framing. We are a
LIFEsm partner. The LIFE System Mark
is the sign of your local independent framing expert we were the
only second Life sm Partner in the UK.
Many of our frame mouldings and
finishes are unique, some made specially for us.
Some hand finished, polished and limed finishes are exclusive to our
workshops, you wont get them anywhere else. Often copied, never
bettered.
Sports case frames "caseframes", supplied online and through the
shop, are our copyrighted design.
Staff are always available to offer
advice on framing without any obligation. You can
always talk to a framer, we are very pleased to meet our customers
and will always give you the right advice.
"Winners
in the frame game" clip from
The Cornishman
newspaper
More
About our computerised
mount cutting
We
only use Wizard - the worlds leading mount
cutting machines. Don't accept lesser quality mounts!
We chose Wizard to
cut your mounts because it is the worlds best mount cutting machine
which also runs the best software which
allows us to cut virtually any design mount, even on jumbo sized
boards. It is by no means the fastest mount cutting machine in the
world, but speed is not everything. The wizard will cut mounts with
precision, computer controlled accuracy, relentlessly day after day,
week after week, each mount as perfect as the first. Anybody using
our mount cutter has either been trained on site by the UK
distributors or attended the training course.
Although Wizard machines are almost twice the investment of a
budget computerised machine, we think our
customers are worth it - and our customers say the results
are outstanding.
The mount
board
We use Slater
Harrison and Arquadia boards for quality,
preservation and added value. We have used
Slater Harrison "the professional's choice" for almost fifteen years
and it is a high quality British made product with reliable supply
and a good range of colours and textures. Arquadia
is often the board of choice for bespoke framers
and better known to the public. Both boards are ideal
for high quality bespoke framing, and the presentation of "framables"
(ready to frame prints, pictures and photos). Boards come in various
sizes, so we may mix brands of these to give you the best yield per
board per price for your mount size.
Find out about our
Framing Services
About Us, in pictures.
over the years....
Our first Shop, 19 Causewayhead. circa 1994 -
2000
Our old Gallery at the Egyptian House "the
picture shop" circa 1996
Causewayhead - behind the scenes and behind the
shop - up to circa 2000
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Our Market Jew Street Shop c 2001/2
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Our shop at 1 High Street
2002 onwards
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