Georgetown Frame Shoppe

Georgetown Frame Shoppe at 2818 Pennsylvania Avenue NW is a custom picture framing studio on the Pennsylvania Avenue block near the Four Seasons Hotel, providing the professional framing services that the Georgetown residential and professional community requires for the presentation of fine art, photography, and works on paper. The Pennsylvania Avenue location, which clusters the frame shop with the DTR Modern Galleries and the Guarisco Gallery in the Pennsylvania Avenue art and gallery address, serves both the galleries as professional framing clients and the individual collector who comes to the frame shop with work from any source.

Custom picture framing at the professional level involves the full range of the framer’s art: the selection of the moulding from the thousands of profiles and finishes that the professional framer’s sample collection represents, from the simple natural wood strip through the carved and gilded period frames that the antique painting or the formal portrait requires; the mat cutting, which involves the specific proportions and the reveal that each work requires; and the mounting and hinging techniques that secure the work without permanent attachment.

The Pennsylvania Avenue professional community, which includes the diplomatic community of the Georgetown embassies, the legal and lobbying offices of the K Street adjacent area, and the residential Georgetown professional class, represents the customer base for the professional framing service at this address. The Georgetown professional who acquires art in the Washington market, at the Pennsylvania Avenue galleries or at the Wisconsin Avenue gallery corridor, needs the professional framing service that the Georgetown Frame Shoppe provides.

Hours run Monday through Saturday, with the studio accommodating the professional’s time constraints in the framing consultation. The Georgetown Frame Shoppe’s Pennsylvania Avenue location makes it the natural framing resource for the Four Seasons Hotel guests and residents who are acquiring art in the Georgetown galleries and need professional framing services. The hotel guest who purchases work from the DTR Modern Galleries or the Guarisco Gallery on Pennsylvania Avenue can walk to the Georgetown Frame Shoppe at 2818 for the framing consultation in the same visit, which makes the Pennsylvania Avenue art and framing cluster a complete fine art experience.

The professional framing service at Georgetown Frame Shoppe covers the full range of framing needs that the Georgetown market generates: the antique painting that requires a period-appropriate carved frame, the watercolor that needs the specific mat proportions that works on paper require, the photograph that benefits from the float mount that reveals the full image to the edge, and the work on paper that needs the conservation hinging that allows the work to be safely removed from the mat without damage. Hours run Monday through Saturday. The Georgetown Frame Shoppe has served the Georgetown art community from the Pennsylvania Avenue address for many years, building the professional relationships with the galleries, the diplomatic community, and the private collectors that make the studio one of the most trusted framing addresses in the Washington art market. Hours run Monday through Saturday at 2818 Pennsylvania Avenue NW near the Four Seasons Hotel.