Web Development · Fine Art Services · Case Study
Lowy Frame and Restoring Company . New York City, USA
Bringing a Century-Old Frame Shop's Craft Online, Worldwide
Lowy Frame and Restoring, founded in 1907, needed a website that could earn the trust of art collectors anywhere in the world, not just walk-in clients in New York.
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Client Retention Rate
What if a century-old reputation for restoring priceless art could reach a collector on the other side of the world, just as easily as one across the street?
That's the reach Lowy wanted beyond its New York studio. Cynoteck built the platform that carried it there.
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Meet Lowy Frame and Restoring Company
Founded in 1907 by Julius Lowy, Lowy Frame and Restoring is recognized as one of the country's leading fine art services firms, offering conservation, restoration, and an extensive collection of antique, reproduction, and modern frames.
Challenge
Lowy wanted its century of craftsmanship to reach art collectors well beyond New York, without losing the trust that comes with decades of hands-on expertise.
Opportunity
A strong local reputation doesn't automatically translate online. Lowy needed a website built to earn the trust of clients who might never set foot in the studio.
Outcome
A flexible, redesigned platform bringing Lowy's full range of services online, backed by a new database and custom tools built for art specifically.
A Local Legacy, With No Digital Reach
Lowy's reputation took over a century to build in person. Taking that same trust online for clients worldwide was a very different challenge.
Lowy's reputation was well known locally, but had no online platform to reach art collectors working from other cities or countries.
Conservation, replication, and house-call services are highly specialized and hard to present simply and trustworthily online.
Replicating a piece of art has zero room for error, and any online process needs to reflect that same exacting standard.
Moving valuable art safely across borders means following different shipping rules and logistics requirements in every country.
A Flexible Platform Built Around Fine Art
Cynoteck rebuilt Lowy's online presence from the ground up, designed to carry a century of craftsmanship into a global, digital-first world.
Technology Stack
Before & After: How Lowy's Online Presence Changed
Here's what changed for Lowy's team and clients once the new platform went live.
- Lowy's reputation reached mostly local, walk-in clients
- Specialized services had no simple way to explain online
- The database ran on an aging, outdated system
- Three separate technologies had no smooth way to work together
- Backups depended on manual processes, with a real risk of data loss
- There was no way to visually preview framing options online
- International clients had no easy way to learn about logistics
- Product listings and inventory needed constant manual upkeep
- The platform reaches art collectors and galleries worldwide
- WooCommerce-powered UI/UX makes specialized services easy to explore
- Data now runs on a modern AWS database, migrated with zero loss
- Java, CodeIgniter, and WordPress work together seamlessly
- Daily automated backups protect the business around the clock
- A virtual framing tool lets clients preview options before ordering
- More than 4,000 products are listed, with more added via Cron Jobs
- Three platforms run together with a zero-downtime integration record
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The Impact: A Century-Old Craft, Reaching Further Than Ever
The real win for Lowy wasn't just a new website. It was a century of craftsmanship becoming visible to the whole world.
Customers now get a seamless experience across every device, whether browsing from a phone or a desktop.
More than 4,000 products have been added to the platform, with new listings added continuously through automated Cron Jobs.
Three different technologies run together successfully, with a zero downtime ratio across the whole platform.
“Team Cynoteck is professional, efficient, and extremely helpful. They are all very proficient in CRM and have helped guide our firm over the last year. Each of the team members at Cynoteck that we have interacted with is a real team player.”
— Mario Scheel, IT Manager, HMH SystemWhy Organizations Choose Cynoteck
The Lowy project reflects how Cynoteck approaches every legacy-business build, protecting decades of trust while opening the door to a global audience.
Legacy Business Digital Transformation
We help century-old, reputation-built businesses bring their craft online without losing the trust that took decades to earn.
Careful, Zero-Loss Data Migration
We moved Lowy's entire database to AWS without losing a record, a standard we hold for every migration we run.
Multi-Technology Platform Integration
Our consultants are comfortable making different technologies, old and new, work together as one smooth, reliable system.
Content That Builds Trust With Strangers
We design online experiences that make specialized, high-value services feel approachable to someone who's never met your team.
Reliability Clients Notice
80% of our clients on this kind of project return for more, in large part because the systems we build simply don't go down.
A Small Technical Footprint, Big Global Reach
We design platforms that let a specialized, hands-on business serve clients anywhere, without needing a bigger team.
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