Gallery, Museum and Reproduction Frames
We specialise in making high-end, bespoke and museum quality reproduction and replica frames. With historical knowledge and traditional skills we work with academics, museums, consultants and private collectors to produce new historically and aesthetically appropriate frames for fine art.
We employ advanced and varied skills and knowledge to produce replica and reproduction frames. We have extensive experience with frame-related gilding techniques, including oil, acrylic, mordant and traditional water-gilding with all types of genuine and faux leaf types. We have also trained in traditional and contemporary frame-related finishing skills such as lacquer finishes (including Dutch and Flemish techniques), paint finishes, ormolu, veneering, French polishing, marquetry, parquetry, inciso, sgraffito, prezzemolo and pastiglia. We also have specialised skills in faux patination, patina, aging and toning of gilding, gesso and glazing for traditional picture frames.
We are privileged to own and use antique ornament moulds, frame samples and catalogues of Charles Hewitt, and have an extensive collection of original timber ornament moulds that include those from notable historical Australian businesses, along with thousands of our own ornament and pattern moulds.
We have consulted for and manufactured reproduction and period style frames for major galleries and institutions for fine works of art by artists such as Henry Gritten, Sir Arthur Streeton, Banksy, Yvonne Audette, Abraham Breughel, Frederick McCubbin, Johannes Borman, Norman Lindsay, Charles Blackman, Alexander Schramm, Ethel Carrick Fox, John Glover, William Hodges, Marco Battaglini, Arthur Boyd, Hans Heyson, Brett Whiteley, E Phillips Fox, John Webber, Sidney Nolan, Pablo Picasso and many more.
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Hours
Monday–Thursday
9am–5pm
Open Fridays and weekend on occasion.
Phone
0402 528 757
Location
Cheltenham, Victoria 3192.
Address upon appointment booking.