Our curated collection of premium passe-partouts and museum-quality mounting boards includes hundreds of refined colour tones, a variety of thicknesses, and exclusive materials designed for sophisticated bespoke framing. As a gallery, we place exceptional emphasis on superior craftsmanship and work exclusively with carefully selected manufacturers who meet the highest standards of quality.
Each passe-partout is individually custom-made and precisely tailored to complement your artwork, photography, or picture frame. The result is a bespoke presentation that combines timeless elegance, protection, and aesthetic perfection.
Elegance, Depth & Visual Impact
A finely crafted passe-partout adds remarkable depth, balance, and sophistication to every frame. By creating a subtle visual separation between the artwork and the frame itself, it naturally draws the eye toward the motif and enhances its overall presence.
Whether for contemporary art, classical graphics, or fine art photography, a custom-cut passe-partout creates a calm, luxurious presentation that elevates the character and visual impact of each piece.
Museum-Quality Protection for Your Artwork
Beyond its aesthetic value, a passe-partout also serves an important protective function. The space created between the artwork and the glazing prevents direct contact, helping to safeguard the piece from moisture, dust, and potential long-term damage.
Especially for valuable originals, limited edition prints, photographs, and fine art reproductions, premium museum board helps preserve colour brilliance, material integrity, and overall quality for generations.
Bespoke Craftsmanship Tailored to Your Vision
Every passe-partout is individually handcrafted in our gallery and carefully adapted to the format, style, and character of your artwork. With an extensive selection of luxurious colours, textures, and museum-grade materials, we create unique framing solutions that complement both contemporary and classical interiors with timeless sophistication.
Whether minimalist, modern, or traditionally elegant — our bespoke passepartouts (mats) transform every artwork into a refined visual statement.
Individual creations through technology!
Thanks to a brand new modern CNC-based digital passepartout cutting machine, we offer new passepartout services! This gives us limitless creative possibilities! In addition to classic passepartout cutouts, we offer new forms, notch cuts, blind embossing, texts and dedications, corner decorations and drawn ornaments! Single or multiple cuts!
For which pictures do we recommend a Passepartout?
We are often asked by customers, when and to which pictures a Passepartout is recommended.
Here you will find answers to the concept and functionality of a Passepartout:
As Passepartout we define a paper or cardboard frame in the picture frame usually for graphics, watercolors, prints, photos and drawings. These are the most typical techniques for which a passe-partout is recommended. The mat is ideally matched with the picture and its frame. It can be white, neutral or even colored. Likewise, the clipped form and miter can vary from shape to shape. The combination of several shades of colors is possible. In addition to the extremely important aesthetic functions, the technical functionality should be emphasized. Cutting out the Passepartouts is done with our computer-controlled automated Passepartout cutting machine. This technology makes any favored size and shape possible.
What kind of pictures do we often frame with passepartout?
Watercolor artworks, graphics, pencil drawings, works made with reproduction techniques, photos, prints, copper engravings, greetings and much more.
Why is a Passepartout important?
The Passepartout increase the framed picture’s presentation and their delivered impact and make a harmonic connection between the picture and the frame. The aesthetic function and influence can greatly affect the framed overall impression. Your picture looks nobler, the Passepartout makes the picture shine even more and helps to increase the artworks prestigiousness. In such way the effect is similar in every case no matter that it is the work of a well-known artist or a watercolor made by the amateur hand, a beautiful memory, a friendly photograph, great or small art.
What do we call museum mat board (Museumskarton)?
The museum mat board consists of one or more layers of the same buffered material. The well-known, high-quality museum mat is made only from the best pulp. By adding a special type of CaCO3 to the pulp, we receive an acid-free, buffered museum mat with alkaline reserve material. This method should prevent any acidification and minimize the aging process. In addition, the mat is completely bound, the degree of connection remains neutral and trough a next step glued in an acid-free environment.
Aesthetic functions:
» Highlighting the artwork. Doing so the picture is more accentuated.
» To complete the harmony between frame and picture
» Create a contrast between the frame and passe-partout, thereby achieving a special strong effect
» To achieve special (color) effects
» To underline and highlight selected hues
Technical functions:
» Protection by distance function between picture and glass (distance)
» Adjust the picture size to an existing frame size (where the frame size exceeds the image size)
» Can bind moisture and possible pollutants
» Also, to be used as a spacer strip
» Protection against e.g. unwanted sticking in the case of unframed pictures (e.g., stored in a folder)
» To realize special framing techniques (complementary function)
» To be able to frame several pictures (e.g. photos) in one frame
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With expert craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail, we ensure your pieces receive the framing they truly deserve.