Custom framing in Costa Mesa since 2002.
Best Framing has been in the framing and art industry since 2002, doing custom picture framing in Costa Mesa, Orange County. One 10,000 square foot roof on Placentia Avenue holds an art gallery, a custom framing showroom, a print lab, a fitting shop and a wood shop, and the team that runs them.
The people behind Best Framing.
Medi Bendanna
Medi Bendanna is the co-owner of Best Framing and the driving force behind its evolution from a traditional custom frame shop into a full-service creative production company.
Since taking ownership in 2015 alongside business partner Kristen, Medi has helped grow Best Framing into one of Orange County’s established destinations for custom framing, fine-art printing, signage, and professional installation.
With an entrepreneurial mindset and a passion for craftsmanship, technology, and innovation, Medi is constantly looking for ways to expand what Best Framing can offer. His philosophy is simple: combine exceptional quality, modern capabilities, and genuine personal service, all under one roof.
For Medi, Best Framing is about more than framing artwork. It’s about building lasting relationships, solving creative challenges, and helping customers bring their ideas to life.
Kristen
Kristen is the co-owner of Best Framing, bringing business leadership, financial oversight, and organizational expertise to the company’s continued growth.
Since acquiring the business alongside Medi in 2015, Kristen has played an essential role in building the operational foundation that supports Best Framing’s expanding services, talented team, and growing customer base.
With a focus on financial management, human resources, and business operations, Kristen helps ensure that the creativity and craftsmanship behind every project are supported by a strong, well-run organization.
Her thoughtful, detail-oriented approach and commitment to the team have helped shape Best Framing into the company it is today, where personal service, quality, and professionalism remain at the center of everything.
Five rooms, one address.
Our establishment includes an art gallery, a custom framing showroom, a print lab, a fitting shop and a wood shop, equipped with the latest printing and scanning technologies in the industry.
The showroom
The design counter and a wall of hundreds of corner samples. Walk in, no appointment required.
The art gallery
Finished and framed work on the wall.
The print lab
Scanning to 600 dpi, archival giclée up to 64 inches, a 60 × 96 inch UV flatbed and solvent printing.
The fitting shop
Where the frame is joined, the mat cut, the piece mounted and glazed, by hand, a few steps from the counter.
The wood shop
Moulding profiles milled to match a finish or a size no catalog carries, then hand-finished.
Four values, in the shop’s own words.
Adapt & Act
We are resilient, flexible and proactive in an ever-changing world. We remain open to evolving trends and new ideas.
Build with Care
We focus on careful craftsmanship, thoughtful material choices and consistent quality, while building lasting relationships with our team and our customers.
Show Pride
We stand behind our work, we sweat the details, and we strive for continuous improvement every day. We’re proud to frame the things you love, and show pride in our product and craftsmanship.
Grow Together
We grow as a team and with the people we frame for. What one of us learns gets passed to the next person, and every piece that leaves here makes us better at the one after it.
What our experience makes possible.
At 10,000 square feet, Best Framing has the equipment, team and production capacity to complete everything from a single custom frame to a large commercial project.
- Custom frames produced
- 400,000+
- Customers served
- 15,000+
- Showroom and production facility
- 10,000 sq. ft.
- In business on one Costa Mesa street
- Since 2002
- Combined team experience
- 200+ years
- Our work has traveled to every corner of the world
- Worldwide
Selected Work
400,000+ frames later, we still have our favorites.
Click anywhere to put it back
Half a million corners, and counting.
German, our chop-and-join specialist, has been with Best Framing for over 20 years. We estimate that during his 30+ years of frame making, German has chopped and joined more than half a million frames. For that, we salute you, German.
Forbes, Orange Coast Magazine, I Heart Costa Mesa.
Forbes
In 2020, with picture framing deemed inessential, the shop pivoted to making expandable plexiglass shields and kept its team employed. Forbes covered the pivot in a national piece on plexiglass makers, with a quote from Medi.
Orange Coast Magazine
Named in the magazine’s guide to the Westside Costa Mesa block, a busy shop whose employees “hand-cut and join custom solid-wood frames and shadow boxes,” and one the magazine honored in its 2017 “Best Of” issue.
I Heart Costa Mesa
A feature on the shop’s concept, quoting the shop at the time: “Our whole concept is very different from a regular frame shop. While most framers do 2-3 per day, Best Framing will make about 50-60 frames.”
The questions people ask at the counter, answered.
From what can be framed and choosing the right glass to mounting jerseys, printing artwork and protecting the pieces that matter, we answer the questions our customers ask us every day.
Summer is hereSummer camp crafts, maps, ball game tickets, souvenir T-shirts, seashells and snapshots: ideas for framing your summer, from our Costa Mesa counter.Read Article- What can you actually frame?Photos, posters, diplomas, jerseys, kimonos, oversized art and mirrors: what a custom frame shop in Costa Mesa can take on, and what each one needs.Read Article
Laser CutterHow our laser cutter turns artwork into custom acrylic: CAD files drawn from your art or ours, cut, then printed on the back in any color. From Costa Mesa.Read Article- Museum glass vs regular glass, and what the glass over your art is doingMuseum-quality and UV-protective glazing vs regular glass: what each does for your art, plus acid-free mats and conservation framing. From Costa Mesa.Read Article
The shop behind the frames.
How long has Best Framing been in business?
Since 2002. We have been in the framing and art industry ever since, in the same Costa Mesa location on Placentia Avenue.
What is inside the Best Framing building?
One 10,000 square foot roof on Placentia Avenue holds an art gallery, a custom framing showroom, a print lab, a fitting shop and a wood shop, and the team that runs them.
How many frames has Best Framing made?
More than 400,000 custom frames, for more than 15,000 customers, and our work has traveled to every corner of the world. Our team brings more than 200 years of combined experience.
Who builds the frames at Best Framing?
We do, by hand, in our Costa Mesa warehouse. German, our chop-and-join specialist, has been with Best Framing for over 20 years, and we estimate that in his 30+ years of frame making he has chopped and joined more than half a million frames.
Has Best Framing been featured in the press?
Yes. Forbes covered our 2020 pivot to making expandable plexiglass shields, Orange Coast Magazine named us in its guide to the Westside Costa Mesa block, and I Heart Costa Mesa ran a feature on the shop's concept.
Still wondering? Come in and ask. No appointment required.
Print and frame what you love. Visit the showroom.
No appointment required.
- Call
- (949) 791-8780
- Hours
- Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
Sat 9am-1pm
Bring us the thing you love.
Walk in with it and talk it through with a designer. No appointment required, though you are welcome to book one.
1671 Placentia AvenueCosta Mesa, CA 92627
- Call(949) 791-8780
- HoursMon-Fri 10am-5pm · Sat 9am-1pm · Sun closed
- Talk to a designer nowStart a Video CallSomeone is on the floor Mon-Fri 10am-5pm and Sat 9am-1pm, Costa Mesa time
- Book an appointmentPick a time with a designerAppointments are optional. Walk-ins are welcome.