Two iterations of commercial design:

Framebridge
Retail Stores

Inside retail frame store with pink back wall, work tables, and lots of picture frames on left.

The frame store of the future.

Framebridge opened its first two retail stores in 2019, five years after launching online. The brand reimagined how a framing studio could look and feel, aiming to create a light, fun, new-school experience that was nothing like the stuffy, overwhelming frame shops of the past. As the in-house Creative Director and Head Merchant, Tessa led design, FF&E sourcing, and visual merchandising, and partnered with Architects, GCs, and local construction team for buildout.

Soon after, Framebridge was poised for rapid retail expansion. In late 2019, Tessa led a design RFP process and hired Studio Tack (now Post Company) to help develop a high-end, but scalable design that could be executed across markets consistently. This allowed Framebridge to open new doors rapidly, and this on-brand design is used across all 19 current locations.

Every Framebridge store includes unique, detailed brand touchpoints: A “Things you can Framebridge” gallery wall of sourced local ephemera, a touch-and-feel moulding display, oak workstations with tabletop pricing grids, and "fancy mailboxes" for front of house / back of house pass-through and secure art storage.

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