Archivea brings historic art to your life.

Archivea is dedicated to the art and design world. It is our goal to bring art supplies and frames to artists and ready to hang art to your home offices, restaurants or businesses.

We have been in the art business since 1955. Founded in California by Jack & Flavia Weedn. The business is now a third generation art supplier. We still are in California and have been in Switzerland since 2010, Portugal since 2019 and Spain since 2024. We are dedicated to artists and art collectors around the world.

We love art that is timeless.

We are the official printer, framer and publisher for The New York Public Library, The Getty Museum, The Henry Ford Museum, The Boeing Archives, Ford Motor Company and many other collections.

We supply retailers, distributors and consumers across Europe and North America.

Collections we publish:

Global Logistics

Switzerland has the best logistics in the world, we supply all countries from here with affordable shipping costs!

Our Printing Studio in Lugano

Visit anytime, have a coffee! We love talking about art.

Via Giulio Vicari 10, Lugano 6900 a few meters from the lake in Lugano.

Master Printer

Sabine is our Fine Art Printer and along with Jo, our Art Framer, Miguel, Matt, Cory, Marta, Tiziano and myself all work together to bring you great Swiss quality printed art.

We are an atelier at heart with a history of printmaking so focus on quality is everything to us. Here you see Sabine preparing canvas for our client Ford Motor Company. - Richard Weedn

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We print exclusively on a fleet of Canon Printers from ONYS affectionately named after Italian and French Actresses. They love art, photography, vintage cars and epic views.

Our cards are really amazing printed on our own Archivea branded 100% cotton, cold press archival paper.

Our stretched canvas is best in the industry, each cured and then coated by hand for a lifetime of UV protection.

Each frame is handmade and assembled by us here in Lugano.

SwissPost logistics allows us to ship our limited edition graphics, stretched canvas and framed items all over the world affordably and reliably.

We assist a select few artists and brands develop business strategies and brand growth around the world. Richard and Miguel Weedn and www.weedn.law proudly consult selected artists in cooperation with Archivea on a project by project basis.

We love printing and framing art.

We are third generation art makers.

We supply art to consumers, architects, designers, retailers, film producers and distributors worldwide.

Our art business lineage was started by Jack Weedn in California in 1955 when he began a small aerial photography business in Orange County (between LA acting and singing gigs). In 1959, his wife, Flavia Weedn began her lifelong career in painting and writing. Flavia and Jack began the art selling and publishing/gallery business on PCH in Laguna Beach and at the Disneyland Hotel in 1960's. In the 1980s Flavia branded goods were introduced to Switzerland by ARS Edition in Zug. By 1990 Flavia goods were stocked in more than 30,000 retail locations across the globe. The Flavia Company transformed and became Archivea GmbH in 2009 when it was established in Zug. In 2018 it was moved to Lugano. This art and film business has continued with Jack's son, Rick Weedn joining his father in 1978 and Miguel Weedn, Rick's son joining his father in 2022.

We now serve The Getty Museum, The New York Public Library, Claudio Bravo Collection, The Ford Motor Company, The Henry Ford Museums, The Boeing Company, The Vintage Arte Archive and the Flavia archive among many others.

We love history and art and pride ourselves in merging the two. Our specialty is visual story telling, archival materials and digital technologies in the production of still imagery and film.

© Site Compilation 2024 copyright Archivea Lda, Tavira, Portugal.

Printing studio and logistics is in Lugano, Switzerland.

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