Showing posts with label conversation piece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conversation piece. Show all posts

Friday, January 8, 2010

Street Art



What 'hood do you hail from? We have two new pieces in our Andersonville gallery that we are really excited about: Chicago streets! Show off your neighborhood pride with these large conversation pieces constructed from flash cards and random letters. Lakeview streets (top) $399, and Andersonville Streets (bottom) $225 are both available at our North store, along with other endless possibilities for framing up the streets you call home!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Customized Flash Cards



Looking for that perfect one-of-a-kind gift? Look no further! Give us a name and we will give you a customized framed flashcard for $36. We think these make adorable tokens for a new baby gift, but we are pretty sure kids from 0-99 will enjoy them too - after all, who doesn't love seeing their name in print?

Monday, July 27, 2009

Hit The Open Road



Ever returned from a road trip with wondering what you are going to do with all your vacation mementos? Somehow it just doesn't seem fair to throw them in a box, so allow us to suggest a fun alternative that you can treasure forever: the road trip shadow box. Grab your collection of maps, bottle caps, shells, snapshots, and other inside joke inspiring do-dads from your cross country adventures and let the folks at Foursided create something you can admire for summers to come!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

MAKING A CONVERSATION PIECE OUT OF ALL THAT STUFF YOU COLLECT, BUT HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH.

People, that's you, are always telling us they have this box of stuff under their bed or at the back of their closet, full of things they love, but have no idea what to do with them.
We say frame it in a shadow box why don'tcha?
To be used as an example, we have a collection of early 20th century marquee letters that when put together,
make the entire alphabet.


After we layout our letters and design what we'd like the final piece to look like, we just order a frame. Luckily we have a frame shop, so we can do that. It's like magic.
We then do final measurements for our frame installation.


We then simply, line the walls
with the same color as the background, which
holds the glass to the front to create the "box" look.

Now, we will raise the letters at different levels to create an unexpected texture to the piece. We'll raise and lower objects in most shadow boxes 'cuz it just looks cooler.


After our glue has dried and we're recovering from the arduous task of individually mounting 26 letters to its backing, we have some coffee.

Time for the final "fitting" process of fastening it in and putting a paper seal on its back to make the back look pretty. You're never going to see the back again so, it's important
that it looks good to the wall, who will be
looking at it, up close, for the rest of its life.

Time to hang it up, pat ourselves on the back, and compliment each other on how creative we are!


Todd Mack-Proprietor/FOURSIDED & TWOSIDED 3.5.09