Adding a Gilded Touch to the Frame

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 8, 1998| Author: Lee Fleming | Copyright information

Few people are lucky enough to spend a career working on their favorite things, but William Adair, a self-proclaimed "frame fanatic," and founder of Gold Leaf Studios in downtown Washington is one.

Against one wall of his studio/warehouse rests an antique Venetian wall-as-frame whose faint colors hint at its original palace glory. A massive gilt-and-mahogany contemporary version of a period frame, created for the Ohio State Capitol's prized oil painting, "Battle of Lake Erie," is...

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