Art Dallas, Inc. Company Information
What We Do
Why We Are Different
Physical Plant
What We Do:
Our Mission:
Art Dallas, Inc. provides art and framing services to the design
trade. Our goal is to provide the best, most complete service at the
best possible price. Our obligation and loyalty is to design
professionals responsible for the selection and installation of art
in commercial and hospitality projects all over the world.
The Gallery at Art Dallas, Inc. is a recently renovated 8000 ft.
showroom in the Dallas Design District. It is a commercial,
working gallery with lots of table space. This allows our designers to "spread out", facilitating
the design of more than one project at a time.
The balance of this
converted 50,000 ft. warehouse located conveniently near Downtown Dallas is devoted to
Custom and Production Framing, Print-making, Crating, Shipping and
Administrative Functions.
Custom Picture Framing:
If it's in a Hard Rock Cafe anywhere in the world, Art
Dallas probably put it there. What this means is that we are
used to dealing with large numbers of pieces, all different, with
several jobs in the works at once. Our custom picture framing
facility has the technology and organizational expertise to do very
complex, very high-end framing jobs on a budget.
Production Picture Framing:
A separate and distinct entity, the production framing
facility at Art Dallas has the capacity to produce multiple, high
quality copies of the same item efficiently and extremely
affordably. The production framing facility has the latest in
automated picture framing equipment, including computerized mat
cutters, automated joiners and pneumatically driven saws. The
production facility produces art, mail order inventory and other
high volume framed art on a real budget.
Original Art & Consignment Pieces:
Art Dallas maintains an inventory of THOUSANDS of pieces of
ORIGINAL ART representing the widest possible range of styles and
media. Art Dallas has access to every major supplier of
Original Artwork in service to the design trade. Also, we work
closely with many recognized fine artists to produce original
consignment pieces in a wide variety of styles. In addition to
original works of art, Art Dallas has wholesale access to all of the
sources of printed art available in today's market.
Custom Prints:
Always innovative, Art Dallas has led the way in opening up
new options for designers. Art Dallas has spent years refining
the hardware, software, media and inks for its digital printing
process. This has made it economically and technically
possible for designers to specify totally custom art for their
hospitality projects using images derived either from Art Dallas' own image database or
our client's publishable collection.
Crating & Shipping:
Art Dallas controls all aspects of the packaging, crating and
shipping process. Product from Art Dallas is:
1. Packed properly
2. Crated professionally
3. Labeled clearly and
4. Inventoried accurately.
When Art Dallas does the art for a project it arrives intact, on time and organized
in a way that minimizes the cost of installation.We never lose sight of the capabilities
and limitations of the destination facility. We design our packaging so that unpacking
is quick and installation is fast and inexpensive.
Why We Are Different:
Woman/Minority Owned Corporation - Art Dallas has obtained
national certification as a Woman and Minority owned business. Many of our clients
find this certification useful for fulfilling Federal, State and Local diversity
requirements associated with such things as project financing. In addition, we are
a family-owned business.
When you deal with Art Dallas, you have direct access to
an owner of the
company whose sole interest is your satisfaction.
Skills - The principals and employees of Art Dallas combine a truly unique
range of skills and training. From welding to printmaking to
advanced computer programming and other technology, there's a
professional at Art Dallas working on making our service better,
more efficient and wider ranging. In addition,
most of the personnel assisting designers with their art selections at Art Dallas
are designers themselves, so they not only understand the art and how to present
it, but they have the special training to understand "the big picture" of the total
project.
Vertical Integration - Everything at Art Dallas is
done "in house." We are a fully integrated company. We
do not outsource functions such as framing, crating, shipping and
printing. By keeping these functions in house, we retain
better control of quality, reliability and value.
Experience - In 20 years of service to the design
industry, we have learned such things as the peculiar problems
associated with shipping huge picture frames to the Big Island of
Hawaii and over 3 tons of framed Rock & Roll memoribilia to Beijing.
We know when a large mirror needs a full length aluminum cleat and
exactly what extrusion to use for that installation. We know
our business.
Success - We have been successful. So now we
are strong enough to be flexible. Need a place to stash a
hotel full of art for a few weeks? We've got it. Need a
floor of your hotel RIGHT NOW? We can do that. Our job is to
work with designers, purchasing agents and owners to make the final
stages of their project go as smoothly as possible. We're in
business to serve our clients and we're strong enough to do it in
ways other companies aren't.
Physical Plant:
Our Gallery
The Gallery is a contemporary open-space design, containing employee workspaces,
large work tables for our clients as well as storage areas for our extensive collection
of original art. Frame and and Mat samples are in a separate open design space adjacent to Gallery
Floor. Art Dallas is in the process of acquiring additional gallery space
in an adjacent building for special events such as single-artist shows, juried competitions
and all the other functions associated with traditional fine-art galleries.
Administrative Offices & Production
The administrative offices of Art Dallas, and the production areas
are contiguous with the gallery and occupy the balance of the approximately 50,000
sq. ft. facility that is Art
Dallas. Production is divided into two areas with two
separate workforces. Volume production is accomplished in about 12000 ft. with fully
automated production tools. The Volume Production Facility has a capacity of about 600 pieces in a single 8-hour
shift. Custom production is accomplished in about 9000 sq. ft. with more traditional
picture-framing tools, materials and techniques. Having two separate workforces in the two facilities assures the highest, most consistent
quality in the industry. The balance of the facility is
allocated to administrative offices, areas for crating, a complete woodshop, a "clean"
print room consisting of 8 large-format printers and another "clean room" housing
the computerized mat cutters. Additional gallery, office and creative spaces will
become available with the acquisition of our new facility in late 2007.