PROFESSIONAL EXPERT CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING  

Custom Picture Framing with 'exquisite style and beauty!' That's the description customer Cindy Chamberlain used when she picked up the lovely watercolor her mother painted many years ago. 'My mother told me I was crazy for just leaving it and letting you design the matting and framing, but I knew it would be beautiful. It always is!'

We always strive to provide the perfect Presentation and the correct level of Preservation. Our picture framing designs, our extensive selection, and our attention to quality and service - these are the things that have earned our picture framing shop more than one 'Best Custom Picture Framing' award by Charlotte media and the public. We were recently voted 'Best of the Best' in Custom Picture Framing by Charlotte Magazine!

Customers regularly compliment Harris as much for the framing of his watercolor paintings and prints as they do for his art!
We carry eight different lines of moulding, from inexpensive and simple, to handcrafted gold leaf closed corner frames, from metal poster moulding to fine, hand-finished, carved Italian mouldings. Our selection of gold and silver moulding is extensive: we carry comtemporary maples, exotic burl veneers and pickled pine, black moulding in many sleek or distressed designs, and we have beautiful cherry, walnut and oak in many finishes, designs and loosk. We also have many unique, funky and interesting mouldings to compliment the many traditional moulidng lines we offer.

We also have many different matting options, including special papers and deep bevel mats in a wide variety of styles, colors and designs. We specialize in handwrapped linen mats, suedes and silks, even chennile. We also have embossed, corregated and leather finishes, too!   

Our experienced, professional framing staff will be happy to suggest just the right framing and matting for your artwork, diploma, childrens' school-made masterpieces and class photos, maps, mirrors, sports memorabilia, quilts and needlework - anything you can think of to frame! We want to help you "tell your story on your walls," for example, we framed a golf club, scorecard and photo from a special round of golf for a man who presented it to his brother as a gift. We framed a young basketball player's jersey, piece of net and signed program from a YMCA Championship game.

The Harris Holt Gallery is conveniently located in the geographic center of Mecklenburg County, one and a half miles south of the Square at Trade and Tryon - in the heart of Dilworth. We have plenty of parking beside our Charleston pink building. Check out the map on the Contact Us page or call the gallery for directions.

We work with many corporate clients, in addition to our many retail customers, framing and installing their artwork. Our corporate customers include Bank of America, Carolinas Medical Center Foundation, Compass Group, The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Charlotte Center City Partners, Cigna, Coca-Cola,  McIntyre & Co., McNeill's, TrammellCrow Co. and Wachovia. We are happy to furnish references upon request.

We also work with several interior designers, such as Cooper Kirby Interiors, Anne Ferree Interiors, and Sherry Grooms Interiors, who rely on us to assist them with choosing just the right framing for their clients' décor.

Most memorable items we have framed:

• An African Wedding apron made of elephant hide!
• 19 very large textiles from the Middle East and Polynesia.
• A hand-made Mickey Mouse doll, made by a ship's captain during World War II.
• A Compass Group chef's jacket & scarf from the Olympic Village in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Several paintings used in the filming of the movie 'The Patriot.'
• Actor Mel Gibson's shirt - given 'off his back,' to a local japanese restaurateur.
• Two very large African masks in one frame.
• A 95" x 54" caricature of 40+ executives from a meeting in Vienna, Switzerland.
• Many original paintings and drawings of American and European masters, such as Rembrandt, Picasso, Warhol, Alfred Jacob Miller, Thomas Hart Benton and others.
• Grouping of Texas license plates in a "tin roof" frame!
• Pencil Rubbing from a cemetary grave marker.