Frames built around the work.
Not the other way round.
A picture framer's studio on Church Street, working with artists and collectors for fifteen years.
Gilt Frame & Print is a small bench workshop in Stoke Newington. We make frames by hand — cutting, jointing, gessoing and gilding the way it has been done for centuries — and we print fine art editions on a twelve-ink pigment press in the back room.
We work with painters and printmakers from the studios up the road, with private collectors who've inherited something delicate, and with anyone who walks in with a piece they care about. Whatever it is, the frame is drawn around it. Never the other way round.
Twelve house mouldings. Hundreds more on request.
Solid timber sections cut and jointed in the workshop. Gold leaf laid by hand on hand-gessoed mouldings. Bring the work in — we'll show you every profile against it before you choose.
English Oak
American Walnut
Ash, Black
22ct Gold Leaf
White Gold Leaf
Hand-Gessoed
Bole & Gilt
Tulipwood, Stained
Limed Oak
Box Frame, Walnut
Tray Frame, Oak
Slip & Spacer
On the bench, on the wall.
Framing, printing, and the bits between.
Indicative starting prices — quoted properly once we've seen the piece and chosen materials together.
Bespoke Framing
Hand-cut, hand-jointed frames in oak, walnut, ash, tulipwood or limed finishes.
Gold Leaf Frames
22ct or white gold laid on hand-gessoed mouldings. Burnished or matt.
Giclée Fine Art Printing
12-ink pigment press on Hahnemühle and Canson cotton rag. Editioned or open.
Conservation Mounting
Acid-free board, 99% UV museum glass, archival hinging — for work that matters.
Float Mounting
Deckled-edge and full-bleed work shown as object, raised inside the frame.
Collection & Delivery
We collect, wrap and rehang across north and east London. White-glove handling.
From the work in your hands to the piece on your wall.
Consultation
Bring the piece in. We sit at the bench, sample mouldings against it, talk mounts, glass and light.
Material
Timber chosen and ordered. Mouldings cut, jointed and finished. Mat board selected, glass measured.
Conservation
Acid-free hinging, museum glass, sealed-back assembly. Built to protect the work for decades.
Hanging
Collected, framed, delivered and hung properly — securely, level, and lit so it sits where it should.
“I've taken work to half the framers in London. Gilt was the first place that spent twenty minutes looking at the painting before saying a word about the frame. The result is faultless — and it's the frame the work always wanted.”