Architectural metals · Houston

Custom Metal Frames for Contemporary Art

We specify and curate custom-fabricated metal frames in brass, bronze, aluminum, and steel. These profiles feature precision-fused, seamless corners and are available in professional finishes — powder-coated, blackened, oiled, and polished — creating an ultra-thin, minimalist border that visually disappears around your artwork.

Fused corner of a raw steel frame showing the ground seam, SBAS Houston — Fused, ground corner · raw steel

Construction

Precision-fused for a seamless profile.

We work with specialized metal fabricators to ensure every frame meets our rigid architectural standards. Each profile is engineered to run continuously around the artwork — mirroring the architectural quality of our finished-corner woodwork — yielding a frame that reads as a single drawn line: structurally rigid, strong, and capable of housing large-scale contemporary canvases, heavy textiles, and oversized works on paper without flexing.

We bring our signature approach to metal framing by developing custom profiles specifically engineered to provide an ultra-thin, non-reflective border — perfect for contemporary works on paper and high-impact modern canvases.

Materials & finishes

Four metal families.

Raw & Oiled SteelCrafted from industrial mill-scale steel with meticulously finished corners, treated with natural penetrating oils or blackened patinas to preserve the rich, tactile character of raw metal.

Architectural AluminumExceptionally rigid and lightweight — ideal for oversized works. Available in satin, brushed, polished, or electrostatically powder-coated custom colors.

Bronze & Solid BrassLuminous warm metals hand-rubbed with natural wax or chemically patinated to a deep antique bronze — ideal for object armatures and sculptural shadowboxes.

Powder Coat & LacquerSeamless, durable powder-coated finishes in crisp white, subtle architectural grays, or custom matte lacquer shades mixed to match interior palettes precisely.

Selected work

Metal, in service of the art.

Pop art print in a thin welded black metal frame by SBAS Houston — Thin black profile · continuous ground corners

George Tice photograph in a welded raw steel frame, SBAS Houston — George Tice · raw steel

Vija Celmins night sky print in a white metal frame, SBAS Houston — Vija Celmins · crisp white powder coat

Mixed-media textile work in a white aluminum frame, SBAS Houston — White aluminum shadowbox

Grey powder-coated aluminum frame corner detail, SBAS Houston — Architectural gray powder coat · detail

Oiled steel frame corner on a Shepard Fairey print, SBAS Houston — Oiled steel · detail

Arrowhead collection mounted in a brass-trimmed shadowbox frame, SBAS Houston — Brass shadowbox · object mount

Begin

Once a work is yours, make us the first call.

Consultations at our Taft Street showroom, or at your home or office.

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