The studio
About Linden Frame
Linden Frame is two people, Mara and Jonas, working in a two-room workshop: a clean room for paper and the printer, and a dusty one for wood.
Who does what
Mara
Mara spent ten years drawing maps: contour lines, hill shading, the slow work of making real terrain readable on paper. The generative prints began as an evening project. If she could describe how real hills are shaded, could she describe hills that don't exist?
She writes the programs, chooses the seeds, and does the proofing and the printing. She is also the reason there is a viewing lamp in a room that otherwise has no gadgets in it.
Jonas
Jonas trained as a cabinetmaker and worked for several years in a furniture restoration workshop, where he learned to respect soft woods and to distrust shortcuts. He makes every frame, fits every print, and keeps the paper and the sawdust in separate rooms.
He is responsible for the studio's view that a frame should be the quietest thing on the wall.
How it started
The studio began in the winter of 2024 with a handful of prints made for friends and framed in offcuts. The name came from the wood: the first frames were cut from a single linden board that had been leaning in a corner of the workshop for a year, and it turned out to be exactly right for pale paper.
The first public series, Ridgelines, followed in 2025, then River Light and Winter Fields. We have kept things small on purpose: three series at a time, short editions, and no printing on demand. When an edition is finished, it stays finished.
What we don't do
We don't take commissions for particular places, we don't make custom sizes, and we don't print other people's work. None of these are bad ideas. It is just that doing three things carefully already fills the week.
Getting in touch
The best way to reach us is by email, at hello@lindenframe.org. We read everything, and we reply as soon as the printer and the saw allow.