This volume validates the status of American antique frames and their place in art history. Wilner (proprietor of a company that specializes in period frames) includes essays by art scholars, museum curators, private collectors, and art world luminaries who discuss every relevant topic from frame history and construction to the aesthetic criteria of matching frame to picture. Extensively illustrated with color and B&W photographs that showcase frames in relation to the paintings they border and as works of art themselves.
