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ORBISTHE FRAMERS ISSUEBinders Art Supplies & Frames combines fine-art supplies with custom framing on Piedmont Road, serving artists through its family-run Buckhead shop. Old Main Gallery and Framing frames work in-house in downtown Bozeman, alongside changing exhibitions of Montana and western art. Driggs' The Local Galleria offers custom framing beside work by Teton Valley artists, also running art classes at its South Main Street gallery.
This plate lists 38 shops in 15 countries. Lagos has the most, with 3.
Ask about conservation materials: ask for acid-free mounts and glazing that filters light if the work is valuable.
Ask for a timescale: framing to order takes time, so agree a collection date before you leave the work.
Ask how a framed piece travels: framed work is fragile in transit, so ask about crating or sending the print unframed.
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Framers · 38 shops, the best first
Oltrarno
A woodworking bottega on Via Santo Spirito for four generations since 1895, Castorina turns and gilds frames, mirrors, columns and decorative objects using cabinetry and gilding techniques. Its Santo Spirito shop sells convex mirrors, carved sculptures and wall pieces made and finished by hand.
Best for Gilded frames and turned-wood objects
Buckhead (Piedmont Rd)
This family-run Buckhead store supplies fine-art materials and custom framing to local artists. Long established on Piedmont Road, it combines an art-supply counter with framing services.
Best for Fine-art supplies and custom framing
Binders Art Supplies & Frames traces its start to 1955, when Moe Krinsky and his brother Joe bought a small frame and gift shop in Atlanta. The brothers had run Moe's and Joe's Tavern in Virginia Highlands before moving into retail. Art supplies arrived at a traveling salesman's suggestion and became the core of the business. In 2001 Howard Krinsky and Jay Shapiro purchased the store and opened a flagship in Buckhead in the former Limelight Disco. Stuart Shapiro entered the business in 2011 while three Binders locations were active. Howard opened a second store at Ponce City Market in 2015 as its first tenant, and in 2016 he became president of the International Art Materials Association. The Buckhead Landing store began renovations in 2022 and completed them in 2024. That year Hannah Krinsky joined as the third generation, coordinating marketing and events. The store carries over 50,000 fine art supply products alongside a framing studio, the Limelight Gallery and the Art School at Binders. Rough Draft Atlanta marked the seventieth anniversary in 2025 and noted the Binders Art Supply Scholarship at SCAD, begun after the school came to Atlanta in 2005. A mural outside the store pays tribute to the disco era of the building.
Downtown Bozeman
A downtown Bozeman gallery and custom-framing shop representing regional painters, photographers and printmakers. It pairs rotating exhibitions of Montana and western art with in-house framing.
Best for It pairs rotating exhibitions of Montana and western art with in-house framing
Driggs
At 25 South Main Street, this gallery and shop shows fine art from Teton Valley artists alongside pottery, clothing, souvenirs, and custom framing. It also runs art classes and sip-and-paint sessions.
Best for Local fine art, pottery and framing
Roundabout Accra
Spendstre Fotostore frames pictures and prints canvases from its shop at Accra Mall on the Tetteh Quarshie Roundabout. It combines traditional framing techniques with modern machinery.
Best for Picture framing and canvas printing
Baytown, Texas
Craft, fabric, framing and home decor.
Best for Craft, fabric, framing and home decor at a verified Baytown door
Diep River, Cape Town
Artland is an art supplies shop at Unit 7, Prime Park, 15 Mocke Road, Diep River, identifiable by a "Big Red Giraffe" landmark. It stocks acrylic, oil, watercolour, gouache and chalk paints along with brushes, canvas, paper and inks, and offers framing and fine-art printing services.
Best for Paints brushes canvas and framing services
Cape Town
The Artists Gallery, which opened July 1, 2023 at 34 Bree Street, Cape Town, sells paintings in acrylic and oil on canvas or board, mixed media, sculptures and Diasec works from a range of established and up-and-coming South African artists. It also offers framing, certificates of authenticity and worldwide shipping.
Best for Original South African paintings and sculpture
Florence / Online
Florence decorative-paper printer since 1931 — Florentine-style papers handmade in Tuscany for luxury crafts.
Best for Gift wrap worth framing.
Rossi 1931 produces fine Italian decorative paper from Florence, exceptional quality papers perfect for luxury gift wrapping, bookbinding endpapers, box-making, and prestige paper crafts. Founded by Antonio Rossi, who began as a typographer and established shop in Borgo San Lorenzo in 1931, the business expanded to fine stationery with subsequent generations of Rossi family members. The range features classic Florentine designs inspired by the Renaissance—traditional floral patterns, contemporary subjects including birds and butterflies—superbly printed on 85 gsm first-quality sheets (20 by 28 inches / 50 by 70 cm). The papers blend traditional Florentine aesthetic with modern innovations and are handmade using special techniques.
Zona 9, Guatemala City
Tanta Dinamita is a gallery, fine-print laboratory, library, and studio for clubs and courses at 7a avenida 13-01 zona 9, Plaza La Cúpula, local 14, Ciudad de Guatemala. It also offers framing.
Best for Galleries
Ikeja
Nickobi Photography Frames is led by founder Obidiagha Theophilus Obinna from its base in Ikeja, Lagos. His decades-long background in design shapes a business built around clean aesthetics and user-focused framing services.
Best for Custom framing and photography services
Lagos
Custom picture framing shop in Nigeria offering framing services designed to preserve and present artwork for customers.
Best for Custom picture framing services
Lagos
Hazken frames pictures from its Shomolu, Lagos workshop using fibre frame material with canvas laminating film and full-colour printing. The team brands and wraps each finished frame before shipping it to customers.
Best for Custom picture framing and printing
Lagos
WallArt Nigeria is a digital image reproduction company based on Popoola Banjoko Street in Gbagada, Lagos. Its production team, drawn from brand design and interior design backgrounds, prints and mounts photographic wall coverings in-house.
Best for Large format printing and framing
London / United Kingdom
Green & Stone began in 1927, when Alfred Green and his sons Alfie and Peter were invited to work out of the Chenil Gallery on Chelsea's King's Road by the gallery's own directors, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw.
Best for Oil paint, framing and fine-art materials
Green & Stone began in 1927, when Alfred Green and his sons Alfie and Peter were invited to work out of the Chenil Gallery on Chelsea's King's Road by the gallery's own directors, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw. In 1934 the business moved five minutes away to 259 King's Road — a shop that had previously housed the Women's Suffragette Movement — where, under the Greens, it operated mainly as a picture-framing business with only a small sideline in art materials. That balance shifted after 1972, when Rodney Baldwin joined as a trainee manager and bought the business from the Green family in 1978; under his ownership the framing department kept its focus on handmade frames while the art-materials side grew into the shop's larger business. Deteriorating premises and flooding forced a further move in 2018 to the current address at 251-253 Fulham Road.
Today Green & Stone stocks oil paint from Michael Harding, Sennelier, Winsor & Newton and Charvin alongside watercolours, acrylics, pastels, technical drawing supplies, canvas and stretchers, framing services, an in-house gallery and art classes — a range broad enough that the business describes itself as one of the largest fine-art-materials retailers in Europe.
What the size doesn't erase is the sequence of hand-offs that got it there: a gallery-invited framing shop, folded into a suffragette storefront, carried through a change of family ownership, and rebuilt once more after its building failed under it — the same trade, four addresses and three owners deep.
Kitisuru / Gigiri Road, Nairobi
Tazama Africa Ltd is an art gallery and picture framer based in Nairobi's Yaya Centre, Two Rivers Mall and Gigiri Lane, dealing in quality, authentic artwork.
Best for Quality authentic artwork and framing
El Cangrejo Calle Arturo D. Motta, Panama City
Galería Arteconsult is a Panama City gallery of Latin American and international contemporary art, founded in 1979 by Panamanian art historian Carmen Alemán. It presents painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper and graphic art, and offers museum-quality framing, appraisals, restoration and art handling.
Best for Galleries
Pawleys Island, SC (9841 Ocean Hwy)
Local artist Vida Miller opened this custom frame shop and gallery in 1980, and forty-plus years on it is still known as the largest, most experienced framer on the south end of the Grand Strand. The gallery sells original artwork, prints, and gifts by a roster of Lowcountry artists alongside its framing services.
Best for Custom framing and Lowcountry artwork
Le Caudan Waterfront, Port Louis
Didus Art Gallery is an art gallery in Mauritius presenting artefacts and pieces of art, with an Instagram highlight spotlighting artist Vaco Baissac. The gallery also offers framing services alongside its retail and display space.
Best for Mauritius art and framing services
Bellavista, Santiago
Salustiano Casanova offers custom conservation-grade framing, giclée fine art printing using cotton papers and pigmented inks designed to last over 100 years, and an online gallery of contemporary art with shipping across Chile. The business has operated since the 1970s, with its founder trained at Galería Época under Nemesio Antúnez.
Best for Custom framing and fine art printing
Tanneforsgatan 3 & Västra Svedengatan 7, Linköping
Art'n'Design has worked with picture framing and design retail in Linköping since 2006, running a City shop on Tanneforsgatan alongside a second location at I-Huset selling interior design objects and gift wrapping. After parting ways with the Gallerix chain, the owners continued independently and built Rambaren, a dedicated framing workshop offering handcut mats and specialty glass.
Best for Custom framing and curated design gifts
Hilton Head Island, SC
A fine-art gallery and custom-framing studio operating since 1985, showing original paintings, photography and sculpture with archival museum-quality framing. The Hilton Head gallery at 1 Office Way is paired with a second location in Bluffton.
Best for Original art and custom framing
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Cantrell Gallery is the longest continuously running art gallery and custom-framing business in the Little Rock area, showing work by established and emerging local and regional artists. Alongside its rotating exhibits, it offers restoration, conservation and formal art appraisal services.
Best for Regional art, custom framing, art appraisal
Ta Qali Artisan Village, Attard
Deco Manufacturing runs a gallery at Ta Qali Crafts Village, one of three locations in Malta alongside Bulebel and San Gwann. It sells custom framed prints, canvas art, mirrors and ready-made frames, and offers framing, mounting and memorabilia services.
Best for Custom framed prints, mirrors and ready-made frames
Västerås / Sweden
Ekströms Konst is an art gallery and framing workshop on Köpmangatan in Västerås, stocking oil paintings, watercolors, and graphic prints from a roster of Swedish artists. The in-house workshop also custom-frames artwork from roughly 600 mouldings and mats, all cut and fitted on-site.
Best for Art Gallery, Framing
Trinidad / Av. Stma. Trinidad 1610, Asunción
Expresiones Galería de Arte in Asunción shows national and international art, including oil paintings, watercolors and sculptures. It also offers framing services.
Best for Oil paintings watercolors and sculptures
Villa Morra / Cruz del Defensor 241, Asunción
Galería Matices is an art gallery with a framing workshop. It opened on 5 May 1997 with artists from the Arte Nuevo Paraguay group, including Olga Blinder and Lilí del Mónico. It has run a framing workshop since opening and has imported mouldings since 2003. It is a member of ASGAPA, the Paraguayan art-gallery association.
Best for Gallery
Centro / República Dominicana 566, Asunción
Pablo Ávila Arte Contemporáneo in Asunción deals in paintings, sculptures, prints and serigraphs, along with artistic objects. It also offers work valuation and framing services.
Best for Contemporary paintings sculptures and prints
Urdesa, Guayaquil
Guayaquil gallery and framing-and-restoration workshop with more than 60 years of experience. It exhibits and promotes visual art, especially paintings by Ecuadorian artists, and undertakes custom framing plus restoration of paintings, antique frames, gilding and furniture.
Best for Gallery
Tybee Island / United States
Gallery 80 on Tybee sells original local art and offers custom framing from its shop at 1207 US Highway 80 on Tybee Island, with an online shop for pieces that didn't make it home with visitors. The gallery ships artwork without glass directly to customers.
Best for Art Gallery, Custom Framing
Québec City
Les Trafiquants d’Art combines custom framing and art printing with a gallery-shop for work by Québec and international artists. Buyers can use it for both finished art and the practical work of presenting or framing pieces.
Best for Local art and design gallery-shop
Lewes, Delaware, USA
Peninsula Gallery has shown fine art at 520 East Savannah Road in Lewes for decades, representing more than thirty artists working in oil, pastel and watercolor alongside coastal landscapes and realist paintings. Longtime exhibitor Howard J. Eberle showed work there for 28 years, and the gallery also operates an on-site custom framing and conservation studio.
Best for Original coastal and realist paintings plus custom framing
Blvd Morazán / Los Castaños, Tegucigalpa
Galería de Arte Portinari y Enmarcados is an art gallery and framing business in Tegucigalpa.
Best for Art gallery and custom framing
Groenkloof, Pretoria
Directed by Alette Wessels and formerly known as Alette Wessels Kunskamer, the gallery at Forbes Reef House, 29 Forbes Reef Street, Waterkloof Heights, Pretoria sells South African paintings and sculpture by artists including Alexis Preller, J.H. Pierneef and Anton Smit, and offers framing services.
Best for South african paintings and sculpture
Otrobanda, Willemstad
Project 3 Gallery is a gallery, photo-printing lab, custom-framing shop and photo studio at George Maduroweg 14, Willemstad, Curaçao. It prints photographs, frames work to order, and keeps a working studio beside the gallery rooms.
Best for Gallery
Stow On The Wold / United Kingdom
Stow Art House & Framers has operated from Church Street in Stow-on-the-Wold since 1980, specializing in bespoke hand-made picture frames built from a stock of more than 300 mouldings. The shop also sells original artwork by British artists and sculptors alongside its framing service.
Best for Art supplies, framing & gallery
Kent, Connecticut
Run out of a working frame shop on South Main Street, this gallery rotates exhibitions of local and national artists across painting, photography, and mixed media through the year. Framing and gallery business sit side by side, so a piece bought off the wall can be matted and ready to hang before you leave town.
Best for Eclectic contemporary art and custom framing
Old Hope Road, Kingston 6, Jamaica
The Olympia Gallery occupies a complex on Old Hope Road in Kingston 6 that includes a two-story main gallery, a smaller pop-up space, and an in-house art-supply and framing shop. It represents a roster of local artists and stages themed exhibitions of Caribbean and Jamaican art through the year.
Best for Contemporary Jamaican and Caribbean art
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