About Us

Art Effects provides art pieces, design services, custom fabrication, and finishes for architects, designers, and individuals in commercial and residential projects.

Kenneth Gwin founded Art Effects and has been providing services to clients in San Francisco and other locations throughout the United States for over 25 years. He graduated with an M.F. A. degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has continued working within the tradition learned while there, understanding that art and life are to be lived as a greater whole.

Services

Complete interior and / or exterior design concepts
Fine art paintings, murals, sculptures, castings
Decorative finishes, historic restorations
Furniture and cabinets
Architectural supplements
Prototypes
Displays, exhibits, and graphics

We are happy to bring that spark of creative input needed to realize your dream. In our world, color, texture, form, and space bring vision into reality.

Join us in the creative process to combine beauty with the requirements of the real world using our comprehensive vocabulary of materials and techniques.

Solutions

Art Effects has a history of creating the engineering and construction solutions needed to create successfully designed and artistic fabrications.

We specialize in assignments that require the integration of complex or divergent materials and technologies, combining items such as plastic, metal, wood, electronics, and contemporary lighting.

Our depth of knowledge regarding the composition and properties of materials permits extensive manipulation in the application of these materials, often beyond their conventional scope, affecting unique and special results.

With special attention to environmental concerns, each project proceeds using materials chosen to solve any specific need, while at the same time considering their safety and minimal environmental impact. Art Effects has a decades long history of exploring traditional and modern materials and finish applications using new, low VOC, and non-toxic technologies whenever possible.

   
Phone: 415 648 7046