A woman walked into George Kanakis' custom framing shop one day and handed him a photo of a young woman. That's fine, said the Berkeley framer as he glanced at the picture, having worked with scores ...

In Greater Los Angeles, frame shops are almost as ubiquitous as pizza parlors. Locating a self-proclaimed custom framer is as easy as finding a traffic snarl at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon, but how do ...