Nubia Black Bone Ribbed Photo Frame

The Nubia in white is warmth and calm. The Nubia in black is something else entirely.

The same hand-carved parallel ribbing — dense, even, running horizontally across the rails and vertically down the sides, meeting at each corner in a precise mitered break — rendered here in deep black bone that absorbs light rather than reflecting it, giving the surface a matte, almost lacquer-like depth that is entirely its own. Against a dark interior it recedes into quiet authority; against white walls or pale linen it arrives with the graphic confidence of a black-and-white photograph — which, as the styling suggests, is exactly the right photograph to put inside it. The ribbed texture prevents the black from reading as flat or heavy; there is dimension here, shadow falling between each channel, the carving doing the work that color would in a lesser frame.

It is the frame that makes a black-and-white print feel like it was always meant to be printed that way.

The Nubia Black pairs naturally with the Selene Marble Bowl in nero marquina and the Ombra Black Marble Tray — a surface arrangement in carved black materials that rewards close attention.

• Small: Holds 4" x 6" photo  — Frame Dimensions: 5.5" x 7.5" 
• Large: Holds 5" x 7" photo — Frame Dimensions: 6.5" x 8.5"