We worked with Alex on our entire house. Everything came out amazing! He is great to work with…read moreand his service level and expertise are top notch. We are so happy we found Express Frame and will only use them going forward! BTW, these were high end pieces. You can trust him with your best and finest art.

Great service, nice people. Sue was personal & efficient…read more Use them if you need framing anything.

It would be amazing to find a gifted professional framer like Brian anywhere; to find him in Palm…read moreSprings is a miracle. My large photo print looks incredible. Picking the frame was effortless, and spending time in Brian's shop and gallery was a real pleasure.

excellent service and selection. Brian is very knowledgeable and attentive to our needsread more

This is an excellent framing shop with great friendly staff…read more Very professional and good pricing. Only place I will trust with my work.

1-Star Review I…read moreregret to say this, but after three separate botched framing jobs, I am permanently done with Mitre & Bevel. The recurring problem is basic and inexcusable: they repeatedly cut rabbet openings too small for stretched canvases--cutting the opening to the exact outer dimensions of the canvas with no clearance, which is not proper framing practice. Any professional framer knows you must allow extra space (at least 1/8") so a canvas can actually fit into the frame. This happened three different times. Most recently, I ordered a custom 22" × 31" wood frame for an exhibition-bound painting. The Mitre & Bevel owner personally measured the canvas in front of me and wrote the dimensions down. When the frame was delivered, the canvas would not fit because the rabbet opening was cut exactly to the canvas size. Instead of taking responsibility, the framing manager, as well as the owner, insultingly blamed my canvas, claiming it "wasn't square." I have been stretching my own canvases for over 40 years and know how to square stretcher bars properly. Even if a canvas were slightly out of square, that is precisely why clearance is required in the first place. When I spoke directly with the owner, he again blamed my canvas and then stated--astonishingly--that they "shave the rabbets all the time because they're too small." That is not something to brag about. It is an admission of systematic poor workmanship. Shaving rabbets after the fact is a workaround, shows a lack of framing abilities and is not professional framing. I requested that the frame be re-cut properly rather than shaving the existing rabbet (which can lead to uneven depth, poor seating, and long-term issues). The owner refused and instead offered to refund my deposit rather than stand behind their work. At that point it was clear that Mitre & Bevel does not accept accountability, blames the customer and does not follow proper framing standards for stretched canvas. For comparison, I immediately took the same painting to Art Works Gallery & Picture Framing Center in Palm Desert, California, where I was treated professionally and with respect and my painting was framed immediately and correctly without issue--confirming that the canvas was never the problem. All in time for my important art exhibition. If you are a professional artist, collector, who values their artwork or anyone needing precise, exhibition-quality framing, I strongly recommend Art Works Gallery & Picture Framing Center in Palm Desert, California. After three times that Mitre & Bevel cut my frames too small for my paintings and after giving them three chances, I can only conclude that Mitre & Bevel does not respect their customers, know how to cut frames properly for stretched canvases, relies on excuses and after-the-fact short cut fixes to avoid their self induced financial losses due to framing incompetence, instead of correct workmanship. If you want to avoid poor quality picture framing, poor customer service and lack of accountability...by all means, stay clear of Mitre & Bevel.

I've been exclusively using their stretched canvas for at least ten years. Always consistent in…read morequality and taughtness of the canvas I paint upon. Always fair in their price structure. MB

I was in the area obsessing w/ washer dryer refrigerator- and there you were…read more. undiscovered secrets of the desert..

Inga and the framing department is the best a truly wonderful wonderful human being and a huge…read moreasset to Palm Springs Michaels!

way too expensive for what they're stupid tacky collection is! I could get way more on amazon for…read morethe same prices! and $3 dollars off my $45 order was not helpful at all!! ALSO CAPITALISM CAN SUCK ON MY CHEESE STICKS!!!

Alf has framed several pictures & prints for me over the years and they are beautiful. His prices…read moreare very reasonable. He's great about suggesting mat colors and frames to show your prints in the best way. I feel lucky to have found him.

We've had multiple pictures and art framed by Alf over the years. His work is excellent, his…read morepricing is a good value, and he's got a great eye for layouts. He's a small, local business that has earned and deserves the support of his community. We're coming to see you soon, Alf. Got some molas to frame!

I absolutely love this gallery! Gary Dorothy is so talented, with such an amazing eye for lighting…read moreand detail. I have purchased several of his photos over the last four years and plan to purchase more. I am always getting complements on how beautiful they are. Gary is not just a talented photographer and artist, but he is such an amazing, nice and interesting person. I love that he gave me details about his art, it made me even more connected to them. IMAGEVILLE gallery is a MUST SEE when you are visiting Palm Springs.

Great gallery of photos, mix of Palm Springs and other California with some Vegas mixed in. Super…read morefriendly proprietor. His Rancho Super Car Wash is a stunner!

5-Star Review After…read morea very frustrating series of framing failures at Mitre & Bevel in Cathedral City, Art Works Gallery & Picture Framing Center in Palm Desert restored my faith in professional picture framing. I am a professional artist preparing work for an upcoming exhibition on a tight deadline. Mitre & Bevel had repeatedly cut rabbet openings too small for my stretched canvases--three separate times--blamed the artwork instead of their poor workmanship, and refused to properly stand behind their work. I was left with only a few days to find a solution before my exhibition delivery deadline. I brought my painting and some older frame pieces to Art Works Gallery & Picture Framing Center and explained the situation and the urgency. The difference was immediate. The owner treated me professionally, respectfully, and knowledgeably. She understood the issue instantly, measured the canvas properly, allowed correct clearance in the rabbet (as any competent framer should), and even cut down and reworked the existing frame pieces I brought in to create a proper fit. This was done as a rush job, and the frame opening was cut perfectly--the canvas dropped in cleanly, sat flat, and required no shaving, forcing, or compromise. No excuses. No blame-shifting. Just correct craftsmanship. My painting was framed immediately and correctly, and delivered in time for my exhibition without stress or drama--confirming that the canvas had never been the problem. If you are a professional artist, collector, or anyone who values their artwork, this is the frame shop you want. Art Works Gallery & Picture Framing Center clearly understands proper museum framing standards, takes pride in their work, and treats customers with professionalism and respect. After dealing with poor workmanship and poor customer service at Mitre & Bevel, this shop was a breath of fresh air. I will be bringing all my future framing work here and recommend Art Works Gallery & Picture Framing Center without hesitation.

We were so pleased with the service we received and the qulaity of the work that was done. The…read morestaff is so helpful and everything turned out beyond our expectations. Thank you!

Let me say this first, I'm not knowledgeable on molding or custom framing. I haven't had a custom…read moreframe / molding for a picture or print before until recently. I really wanted to go to a local frame / molding shop. But, after getting a print custom matted and framed from this shop, the experience and end result makes me a fan of getting custom molding / frames. This place is awesome. On the walls are samples of hundreds of various different moldings. Some areas, there are completed custom framed pieces waiting for their owners to pick them up. This place is a gem. The shop owner / picture framer, Fernando Guzman, is really nice and friendly. I showed him the print and he gave me some ideas on what to do with it. After talking and looking over different moldings and matte colors scheme, he gave me a total price, which seemed fair and within reason. He even gave me an estimated date of completion and finished it before then. The end result is a beautiful print that's framed and hanging on a wall right where I'm typing this up. This will be my go-to shop for custom framing. And, if anyone wants a quality custom frame job, I'll point them to this location.

Unimpressed. Had large 4x6' canvas stretched thinking his professional job would be better than my…read moreamateur job. I was wrong. He trimmed canvas meant to be wrapped around stretcher bars and put visible staples all along the edge. His explanation was I had not asked for "gallery wrap." I've never even heard of the phrase. His defense was to tell me about his other screw ups in both purchasing work and performing services.

Wow, what an incredibly, unbelievably awful experience…read more The only reason there's a star attached to this is because you can't leave a zero-star review. Though I sincerely believe that's what Plaza Art & Frame deserves. If you were running a business - let's say, I don't know, a picture framing shop - and someone came in to pick up a job and pointed out that the glass wasn't what they ordered, would you: A) Say, "Oh, sorry, we'll fix it." or B) Blame and attack the customer, become disagreeable, unpleasant, and combative, and say, "I have a mind to not even work on them now! I might just give them back to you! Do you know how much work it is to tear these apart, cut new glass, THROW AWAY THE OLD GLASS, and put them back together?!" If you said 'A,' you'd fix it, you know more infinitely more about customer service than Lance and Nancy at Plaza Art & Frame in Yucca Valley do. They chose 'B.' I'll spare you the painful details, but the gist is Lance gave us a quote to frame eight small watercolors. They framed them with the wrong glass, and Nancy immediately tried to blame us, over and over, for their mistake. Then Lance came out from the back room and said the bit about not wanting to do the work to fix their mistake. I couldn't believe how off the rails the whole thing went. I said (three times), "I don't understand the problem; we're going to pay the difference." But both of them were just awful. A couple of years ago I brought in a pair of photos to frame, and they did a lovely job, and Lance was friendly and nice. I didn't deal with Nancy during that time. So it was really something else to be ganged up on by the two of them. I was dumbfounded at being treated that way by a business we were paying a substantial amount of money to. When I say "disagreeable, unpleasant, and combative," I'm not just talking about that day. It was every time we had to go into their shop for this job. I dreaded going in there (for the last time ever) to pick it up because I knew they'd be awful, and they were. I would say I don't understand how they stay in business, but I do know. It's because they're the only framers within 50 miles of Joshua Tree. If another framer opened up shop in town, Plaza Framing would go out of business in a month. Or maybe they'd eke out a living framing American flags and pictures of The Orange Man for the people they actually like and respect while all the queer weirdos (like us) go somewhere that knows how to treat people with decency and respect. (Yes, that insinuates what you think it does.) Larry David did an entire season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" around opening a "spite store." Maybe I'll do that. Open a framing shop here in Joshua Tree just to spite the disagreeable, unpleasant, combative folks at Plaza Art & Frame. Ha, just kidding, of course. Maybe.

I'm a local artist in Joshua Tree who exhibits nationally. After five years of living here…read morepermanently, I decided to try Plaza Art & Frame for five of my 23 x 30-inch watercolors--a size I regularly work on. I was hoping to match some older frame jobs I had that float without a mat in a nice maple frame. I've been framing them this way for at least fifteen years. I even brought one of them with me in my car in case I couldn't explain myself clearly. I came in and met Nancy, who was friendly and willing to help me. Other than her calling me "Hon" a bunch of times (which may offend certain people like me), things started smoothly. But when I began to tell her what I wanted, she said the paper I used was much too heavy to frame floated because it would fall down quickly. I told her that I knew there was some way to do it and brought along one that was already framed, and she was welcome to take the backing off to examine it. It had been in its frame for twelve years. The paper has never fallen. She was not interested in looking at it. She said she'd been in the frame business for thirty years and floating paper that heavy doesn't work, and they would look better matted anyway. I tried to explain they needed to match the others, but she was not willing to frame them. About a year later, I needed more than a half-dozen pieces framed, all different sizes, and this time, with mats! I wanted a simple maple frame again, and since they're watercolors, I wanted the usual UV glass. On this visit, I met Lance. I truly liked him, as he seemed to know his stuff and gave me an extremely thorough estimate, using the largest of all of the pieces so as not to underestimate. He got me to get non-glare, too, showing me the differences in some samples. He wrote it down on one of their invoices, and I said I'd come back on another day. When I returned, Lance was in the back having lunch and Nancy was there, and wouldn't you know it, I forgot that invoice with the estimate written on it! Dang it...I told Nancy, I'd have to deal with Lance, not her, because I forgot the paper. She kept trying to help me anyway, but I kept insisting that he knew the job already. "But he's at lunch right now!" She kept saying, "I can help you." Lance must have heard us snipping and came out. Then, they both helped me. Both Lance and I told Nancy what I wanted, and she wrote it down. Both Lance and I remembered the exact price, even with the tax and change. When I came to pick up the job, the glass on all the frames was not UV or non-glare. I mentioned it, but Nancy said, "You said 'clear!'" But I never said that. I said, "Even Lance knows I wanted non-glare..." and so started an unbelievable eruption. She blamed me for not bringing in the paper and yelled at me about some fantasy how she ASKED me and I answered that I wanted clear glass. (Never happened!) I said I'd pay for their mistake (because I really hated this conflict we were having, and I still wanted to have a local framer for my art). But I wouldn't frame a stinkin' cockroach there. She was so mad because the price skyrocketed to change the glass out, even though I was the one paying for it. Luckily, I came back in before I drove away just to make sure she knew it was UV glass, and her head nearly exploded. "NOW you want UV, too!!!!??? Oh my god!" I told her, I always wanted UV; it's watercolor!" That's when Lance came out, more angry than she was, and threatened not to do the job at all! I couldn't understand what I was doing wrong by paying the difference and paying them to do a job. I didn't argue about who was right or wrong. By then, it was extremely pricey because of the labor to pull apart the back, cut new glass, etc. (even though you pay for the labor when you order ANY glass from any framer). I didn't care. I just paid it, and got blamed. And they lost a good and loyal customer for life. At least I don't have to hear (over and over) how they both have been working in the frame business for "forty years." I thought it was thirty, but I guess it went up a decade because they were so irate. Now that it's forty, they match how long I've been getting my art framed. I should have mentioned that. Ha! To be fair, I've seen their work, and it's precise and professional. I also think their prices are fair to good under normal circumstances. But they will only be nice to you when the mood strikes them. I've experienced them when easygoing, and I've experienced the opposite. So, be forewarned.