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2025 Best Custom Framing

Frame Fatale

It’s so easy to spot the dreaded IKEA frame. We get it: They’re cheap; they’re easy; they get the job done. But if you want a frame that will not only get the job done but will honor and enhance whatever’s behind that glass, head to Frame Fatale. They’ve got hundreds of colors, styles, and finishes, with an artist’s eye for finding just the right one for your project. We recently spotted a custom shadowbox they did for a client’s vintage Ozzy Osbourne leather jacket — try that at IKEA. Read More »

1813 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, PA Website

2013 Best Custom Framing

Flying Pig Picture Frames

You may have picked up that $10 print at a craft-fair vendors stall, but stick it in one of Dan Tags pre-made-but-perfect frames (he specializes in vintage, green materials and reclaimed wood), and poof! masterpiece. Read More »

1031 North 3rd Street, Unit 301, Philadelphia, PA | 609-397-0488 | Website

2009 Best Custom Framing

Pennsylvania Art Conservatory

They'll frown upon your loony idea to put a Hudson River School landscape in a shiny white-gold contemporary frame, but they'll do it with restraint and class. That authentic diligence has garnered a loyal following of art lovers who trust this place not only for gorgeous frames, but for detailed restoration work like regilding, and custom reproductions of faithful-to-the-art frames that will make any painting a masterpiece. Read More »

636 Lancaster Avenue, Berwyn, PA | 610-644-4300 | Website