Girl With A Pearl Earring
At The de Young Museum
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Johannes Vermeer's enigmatic
Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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The de Young will be the first venue in the American tour of 35 paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague. This museum, housing one of the world's most prestigious collections of Dutch Golden Age paintings, has not lent a large body of works from its holdings in nearly 30 years.
Exhibition ends June 2nd.
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Work on The Framer's Outlet Begins
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Lee & Dana installing temporary window coverings
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The new rear work room entrance
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Windows facing the mall
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Mall and Channing Way corner windows
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Preservation Framing Class for the Berkeley Camera Club
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Preservation Framing Class
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The Berkeley Camera Club came to us for a field trip in February. Kirstie gave a presentation to 20 photographers on many aspects of preservation framing, along with a facility tour and equipment demonstration. Our glass & acrylic vendor, Tru-Vue supplied tote bags containing tape measures and educational literature for each participant. If your organization would like a similar free class for 12-20 students in our shop, please contact Kirstie for details. See more class photos here
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Family Art Day at
The Berkeley Art Center
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Saturday, March 2, 1-4pm
Enjoy a range of art activities for all ages in Berkeley Art Center's beautiful gallery space and reception patio. Light snacks and beverages provided. Program offered free of charge to the general public. The Berkeley Art Center is located at 1275 Walnut Street. Phone: (510) 644-6893
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Greetings!
 | | Yoshiko Yamamoto Motawi Tile "California Oak." Click on the image to see a full size view. |
Two beautiful new Motawi tiles have arrived! Featured, right, is California Oak by Yoshiko Yamamoto, in a 8" x 6" textured hand painted tile, $87 each unframed. Also new is another 4" x 8" Frank Lloyd Wright Skylight tile, Martin House. $57 unframed.
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The Framer's Outlet Story Part 2
Expanded Framing Options Coming Soon...
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The debris is cleared, the permits are being reviewed, and we will soon start work on our new space.
The Framer's Outlet will connect to our current space via a wide doorway and will house an expanded ready-made frame collection. In addition to our unique in-house one-of-a-kind frames, we will finally have room to offer you a much better selection of beautiful ready-made frames at budget prices.
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Follow our progress on The Framer's Outlet Construction Album .
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Restoration of the month!
Small damaged photo brought back
to life.
One of our customers brought this small, badly damaged and faded photo of her mother to us for restoration. The customer requested that more hair be allowed to show along the top and sides, and a blue background added. The original glasses had a slight blue tint to them, so we worked on their color. The damaged original image is only three inches square but the restored enlargement is more than twice that size.
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Floater Frames for Works on Canvas
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Unlike typical frames that have rabbets* to hold the art and glazing in place, "Floater Frames" are designed to set the frame edge away from a stretched canvas, revealing the painting's edges. In this instance, the canvas edges were taped with black fabric. The Floater Frame is attached to the back of the canvas' stretcher bars. See diagram below.
 *The rabbet is the recess on the back inside edge of a frame into which the glass, matting, artwork, & backing fits.
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UC Memorial Stadium
Panoramic Poster $29.95
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CAL Memorial Stadium Panoramic Poster
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Just in from the West Coast Art & Frame Show: A series of sports stadium panoramic posters. Come in and see our selection!
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