Every frame starts as a board.
We don't use premade molding. Just furniture grade hardwood, built from scratch and made to order for your art.
Built like furniture, made for art.
The same hardwoods used for heirloom tables and chairs: walnut, cherry, white oak, hard maple. Cut, joined, and finished by hand for one piece at a time. No molding. No factory. No two exactly alike.
BESTSELLER
The Canvas Floating Frame
Your canvas, suspended in hardwood so it seems to float, with a thin line of shadow between the wood and the work. It's the piece most people come to us for, and the one they send their friends to.
Built to your exact canvas depth, finished by hand, shipped ready to hang.
Frames for every kind of keeping
How we make them
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i. We start with lumber, not molding
Most frame companies buy premade molding by the foot and cut it to size. We start where furniture makers do, with rough sawn, furniture grade hardwood, milled here in our shop. It's slower and it's the difference you feel the moment you pick one up.
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ii. Nothing we make sits on a shelf
We don't keep stock. Every frame, even a standard size, is built from scratch when you order it. In a quiet way, that makes every order a custom order: made for you, for your piece, by one pair of hands.
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iii. Meaning can't be mass produced
A frame is never really about the frame. It's about the photograph, the painting, the record you can't stop looking at. We make the thing that holds the thing that matters. And we make it like it matters.
Made by a Person
The world is racing to automate everything. I went the other way. Every frame is cut, sanded, and finished by one person. Me. Not faster. Not cheaper. Not for everyone.
OUR CRAFT
The only way I know how.
Atlas Wood Company is Andrew Schatz. A one man woodshop in Pennsylvania. Every frame is milled, joined, finished, and packed by the same person who reads every email. That's not a bottleneck. That's the point.