Their frames were “like the sides of crude packing cases,” said another. The mainstream art establishment had long used elaborate gilt frames to make a work of art stand out from the competition.

Older, antique frames or ornate wooden frames (especially those with plaster/wood embellishments) are fragile and should be dusted using a soft, fine-bristle brush (like a makeup brush).

A long-neglected and formerly ornate wood-frame apartment house on Greenpoint’s Calyer Street will get a facade update that aims to bring back some of the structure’s former historical details, but ...

The museum’s wooden frames, with slightly raised square corners, are replicas of the early frames which Helene Kröller-Müller commissioned for her large Van Gogh collection from around 1910.

What do you imagine when you hear the words ‘Russian wooden architecture’? Probably old churches and village huts with ornate carved window frames. Well, that’s all changing. Here are some ...