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Four-Square

Genuine through mortise & tenon custom picture frames

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A SERIES OF CLASSIC, architectural Craftsman style frames using the signature articulated joinery of the finest Craftsman furniture: all four corners are pinned through mortise-and-tenon joints. Offered in distinctively figured quartersawn white oak and other hardwoods.

Standard widths are shown, but as each frame is crafted to your specifications, all designs are fully customizable.

Choose from a Four-Square type:

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Basics
Made with all four joints slightly articulated.
  Decoratives
Enhance the Basics with a variety of details: extensions, rounded ends, and gouged panels.
 
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Cloisters
Radiused outset corners.
  Kelmscotts
Chamfered sight edge and stopped chamfers at the outside accentuating the corners.

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Four-square Examples

“I endeavored to turn such structural devices as the mortise and tenon to ornamental use; to employ them in such a way as to force them to give accent and variety to the outlines of the object in which they occurred.” — Gustav Stickley