Contemporary artwork in a bespoke timber frame inside a sunlit Cape Town interior
Bespoke picture framersArt · Objects · MemoryEst. with purpose

Art HouseCreations

Thoughtful frames for work worth keeping. Designed around the art, made by hand, and built to endure.

Enter the workshop
   The frame is not the finish

It is the quiet architecture between the work and the room.

We frame original works, editions, photographs, textiles and objects with an instinct for proportion and a respect for permanence. Every decision begins with looking.

01 / Selected conversations

Made for the
work itself.

No house formula. Every frame is a considered response to scale, material, light and where the work will live.

Salon wall of varied artworks in bespoke frames

The collected wall

Private residence
Curated hanging
Large abstract artwork in a shadow-gap frame

Room for silence

Large format
Walnut shadow gap
Frame corner samples and archival materials

The right edge

Material study
Four finishes
Explore the work
Framer carefully aligning a walnut picture frame
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Made slowly. Made properly.

Measured in
millimetres.

From the first sightline to the final sealed back, each piece passes through the same pair of hands. Archival methods protect the work. Exacting joinery lets it breathe.

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Bespoke framing

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Conservation framing

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Object & textile framing

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Art placement & hanging

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  Beyond the frame

More ways
to make.

Framing is at the heart of this studio. The hands behind it also bring years of experience to considered spaces, displays and one-of-a-kind objects.

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Sets & spaces

Set building and custom shopfitting for stores, events and displays.

Custom-built shop display and set construction
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Joinery for home

Designed and fitted kitchens, cupboards and custom-built interiors.

Fitted interior with custom joinery
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Steel & glass

Room dividers for stores and barn doors for homes.

Steel and glass divider with custom fitting
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Laser engraving

Personal details and commemorative pieces made to keep.

Custom laser-engraved piece with fine detail
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03 / Anatomy of a frameScroll to assemble

Four layers.
One quiet whole.

01 · Hand-finished moulding
02 · UV-filtering glazing
03 · Archival cotton mount
Abstract artwork at the centre of an archival frame04 · The work
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Every layer has a job: to support, separate and protect without competing for attention.

04 / The material library

Surface,
substance.

A framer's material table with timber, steel, linen and gilded samples
M.01

Natural oak

M.02

Dark walnut

M.03

Blackened steel

M.04

Hand-laid leaf

A frame begins with a conversation

Bring us
the work.

We will look at it with you—its weight, its story, its future room—and find the frame that feels inevitable.

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