Please note that the designs on the above pages represent a small portion of all our frames. All frames seen on this site are available for custom orders. We particularly recommend you peruse the Portfolio and At the Gallery (especially Paul Kratter's and Robert Flanary's pages if you have paintings to frame) to see more designs and gain a fuller understanding of our custom capabilities. We welcome all inquiries!

Edward S. Curtis, “Chief Garfield” About this frame.	Custom Framing Services Since the true test of a frame is how well it serves the picture, we consider the heart and soul of our work to be our framing design — creating the perfect setting for the unique characteristics of each work of art. To this end, we provide in our showroom and by mail order complete and expert archival framing for your paintings, prints, drawings, posters and photographs. Learn more…

Bringing the designer-maker studio tradition to picture framing, we’ve created a wide array of frame designs and offer sensitive and intelligent custom framing design. Using a variety of beautiful hardwoods, our frames are made entirely to order and from scratch. At our studio gallery we display hundreds of designs and constantly develop new ones. Because our capacities are unlimited, we’re able to provide completely individualized framing — a setting in perfect sympathy with, and unique as, the picture. Frame styles range from delicate “drawing” frames to massive architectural designs, from plain and simple to detailed and more decorative. Techniques include fine joinery, sensitively shaped and proportioned profiling, hand-carved and painted details, and gilding (directly on oak — a favorite period treatment). We urge you to visit us, if at all possible, with your artwork.

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Published articles on frames and framing by Timothy Holton

“The frame is the picture’s accompanist: it has to be self-effacing and subordinate to the picture, and yet positively enhance and contribute to its beauty. Accompaniment is an art in itself.”
— Timothy Holton

• Hidden in Plain View: An Appreciation of the Oak Frame Tradition (PDF)

  Style 1900 Magazine, Winter 2008-09

• Digging Beyond ‘Style…’ a challenge for the Arts & Crafts Revival (PDF)

  Arts and Crafts Homes and the Revival, Spring 2006

• A Natural Finish (PDF)

  Picture Framing Magazine, April 2008

• Close-framed Photographs (PDF)

  Picture Framing Magazine, October 2007

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Mail Order Custom Framing

Yes! We do custom framing by mail order. Learn more...

Photo frames

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Closed-Corner Frames

While most frames today are joined from pre-finished molding, all Holton frames are closed-corner frames theyre sanded and finished after joining. This makes for stronger, cleaner and more even corners. Learn more...