Cassetta is based in Copenhagen and collaborates with architects, designers, and artists in the design of frames with corresponding limited editions.
The word cassetta translates quite simply to cassette; a box that is used to protect and carry. The Cassetta has been around since the Renaissance as an Italian term for a frame with a wide rectangular carving in the middle. We appreciate that the word on one hand speaks to the purely functional quality of framing and on the other a feeling that we are just about to begin an anecdote.
A frame sturdily sits on the periphery of an artwork reinforcing the idea of the cassette as a window. Our frames have yet a layer – the framed limited editions are designed to entwine shapes and stories, and the materiality and motif reinforce each other.
The frames are handmade from locally sourced materials, crafted in a wood workshop located just North of Copenhagen, and framed by professional framers in central Copenhagen.