Working With Us
SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT
Whether you have a painting on canvas, a poster, drawing or photograph, you can e-mail us or pick up the phone and get a quick estimate, arrange to have the work picked up and/or schedule an appointment to meet with a designer.
To accommodate special projects we are sometimes able to do on site work. We have also made designs and produced work without any appointment in the showroom—over the phone and with e-mail.
The fullest Bark experience, however, is in taking advantage of our large showrooms in the Long Island City facility-- 5 minutes from Mid-town. All of our design and producton work is done and displayed here under one roof. It is a state of the art insured and climate controlled environment. We invite you to take a tour.
Our registration staff coordinates pick ups and deliveries in our own alarmed, insured and climate controlled truck to accommodate your schedule. They can also answer questions about the status of your work at any moment while it is in our care. And we will keep a clear, permanent record of everything we do.
Working with Bark Frameworks is straightforward and easy.
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Our designers meet with clients both in our showroom in LIC and on-site.
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Our large White Showroom affords great flexibility for viewing oversized works or many works at one time.
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We have a large inventory of our own designs. We can modify them to suit the work at hand, and we create new designs continually.
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A profile drawing of a new frame design. All drawings are electronically saved.
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All works are inspected and condition reports are prepared. These too are electronically saved.
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We have multiple types of light sources in our showrooms. This Edward Curtis print is seen under high illumination fluorescent light.
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For accurate color matching we use incandescent lamps of specific color temperatures to duplicate conditions where the framed work will be installed.
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A special, intense raking light is used for inspecting the condition of works.
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An acid free glassine wrapper in a protective folio is used to store works on paper while waiting to be framed.
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We are as clear and careful as we can be to make sure works are easy to unwrap and the frame can be handled with no risk of damage.
- Mitch Epstein, 2010Bark Frameworks has designed original and enduring frames for my photographs since I brought my first dye transfer print to Jed Bark to frame in 1976.
They have consistently delivered the highest standards of craftsmanship and conservation practice, while remaining competitive and artful in an industry where impostors run rampant.