Our history.
Chandler Designs was founded by Dorothea Chandler in 1983. The business began as an archival picture framing shop and earned a reputation for truly customizing fine art framing with specialties such as hand made marble paper and faux finished frames. Archival framing of heirloom photographs led to digital restoration of damaged photographs, which in turn led to in-house graphic design services and naturally onto the internet and web design. Chandler Designs is one of the unique companies in the picture framing business in that we produce original design ranging from traditional framed fine art presentation to custom graphics and photography for web sites.
In 1998 Dorothea married Ed Mordan who brought more fine woodworking skills of his own. Chandler Designs now can custom mill solid wood frames for our clients. Ed and Dorothea Mordan work and live in a lovely stone farm house circa 1786 located in Woodsboro, Maryland, on the original colonial period Taneytown Road, one of the "roads to Gettysburg" and once upon a time the main road between Baltimore and Philadelphia.
We love history and helping you preserve yours! We can digitally repair your heirloom photographs, print new archival copies and frame them for display. Archival storage for your originals is available on a custom basis as well. Our Photo Retouch Gallery has examples of our heirloom photo projects.
Our newest endeaver.
In between the framing, the restoration and all of the other things we get into here, we have added honey bees to the family.
Ed brought home his first batch 'o bees in April 2009 and they were working on the pollen on our flowering quince within an hour of the sun hitting the hive box.
Our Open House twice a year.
Join us for our Open House twice each year and find out what has been going on lately. The time is from about 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a pot luck dinner somewhere in the middle. Ed always has something cooking out on the grill. Click to subscribe to our E-Newsletter and get an email reminder of our next Open House.
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Open House dates for 2009:
Spring: May 23, 2009, Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.
Winter Holiday: December 12, 2009, The second Saturday of December.