The painting is very thin and delicate and required special handling and framing due to its transparent nature and size. The first, a 1940s era Japanese painting on silk, which had been acquired years ago by a relative. We recently asked Chelsea Frames to help us frame two special items that so desperately needed help in showing-off their true beauty and importance. Beauchemin and the team here have always been supportive of the local community and people of color, since its inception decades ago – which is a rarity amongst some businesses who have reached the level of success Chelsea Frames has. They chose to stay open as a sign of solidarity and oftentimes joined-in the marching and protests in effort to aid the change so badly needed within the world. Instead, he works with them to foster their creativity and pride in making art.Īs the Black Lives Matter movement swept America, and the world, recently, many storefronts in Manhattan and elsewhere boarded-up for fear of being damaged and destroyed. Beauchemin often says he sees kids coming into his store from the nearby projects, and he never turns them away. Chelsea Frames has worked with the community for decades, and not just when Chelsea was a glamorous, high-rent neighborhood. Their clients include prestigious corporations as well as local kids who happen to have created something by hand, and want to frame it.
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Beauchemin and his team have a discerning eye and always seem to know exactly how to make whatever you’re framing look its absolute best.Ĭhelsea Frames is unlike many other framers in New York’s competitive art space in that they never turn their nose up at anything their customers bring-in for framing. Customers come to these experts from not only across the city, but across the world and they expect nothing but the best as Mr.
Known to be the top framers of personal artifacts and priceless art in the New York City, Chelsea Frames is unique in their approach to framing and their history in a particular location at 9th Avenue and 22nd Street. Daniel Beauchemin, take great pride in their work – as well as their support of the local Chelsea community.