Chelsea Frames, family-run since 1983.
More than four decades of craftsmanship, growing stronger every year.
Daniel and Marc spent years in Europe as Global Framing Industry Consultants. Since returning to New York in 2016, they have grown Chelsea Frames steadily, adding new clients and projects every year.
The studio is also a teaching and learning facility for the framing industry. Daniel and Marc teach classes around the world, in person and online, and our in-house training program is preparing three more team members for certification. Daniel has published articles on framing and is writing a book.
Daniel is an architect by trade and designed our current shop himself. We moved from 8th Avenue to 9th Avenue in 2001, just after 9/11, and the business never closed for a single day during the move.
Today our work reaches well beyond New York: interior designers and galleries across the country, including a private project in Miami, and clients in Brazil, Europe and Canada.
Recognition that goes beyond the neighborhood.
Museum work
Working with Larson-Juhl and Tru Vue, Chelsea Frames helped set up the reglazing program at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where more than 8,000 works have been reglazed over ten years. We have also worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Press
Elle Decor featured Daniel and Marc’s home in the Netherlands in May 2012 (“Going Dutch”), tied to their work at Chelsea Frames. In September 2026, Flicker Magazine profiled Daniel in “A Million Framed Stories”. New York Magazine called Chelsea Frames “the mother lode for custom framing solutions”, and Art Business News called it “a leading force in encouraging and supporting the art movement to Chelsea”.
Clients
Tiffany & Co.; galleries such as Gagosian, Marian Goodman and Gladstone; the Warhol and Keith Haring foundations; Yale, Columbia, NYU and the New York Public Library; The Carlyle; and leading interior designers and architects.
Community
We support New York City schools, Bailey House (now part of Housing Works), the Coalition for the Homeless and CITYarts. Chelsea Frames has donated framing to Bailey House’s fundraising auctions for more than 25 years, work that earned Daniel the Rand Harlan Skolnick Social Responsibility Award.
“There’s enough things in life that are complicated, framing shouldn’t be one of them.”
We are a neighborhood business, and we want to be accessible. A child’s drawing gets the same effort as a priceless work of art, and we work just as hard to make every client happy.
Framing is personal. We are invited into our clients’ most private moments, and we want the relationships we build to last. We now frame for the children and grandchildren of clients who first came to us more than forty years ago.
Come see the studio for yourself.
Visit us at 197 9th Avenue in Chelsea, or tell us about your project and request a quote.