Bring your story to LIFE
We take your photographs and create the most luxurious bespoke coffee table book designed especially for you
Bring your story to LIFE
We take your photographs and create the most luxurious bespoke coffee table book designed especially for you
Close your eyes and imagine holding the most beautiful and personal coffee table book you’ve ever seen. Beautifully designed from cover to cover, with the finest materials, crafted by the hands of the most experienced traditional bookbinders in the world.
Inside lies a story
It might be a love story, a wedding, an anniversary, an adventure of a lifetime, your child’s first year, the life of a loved one, a forever home renovation or a celebration of a life well lived. With the turn of each page, your senses are awakened, immersing you in the energy and essence of every moment.
Now, imagine it's YOUR story!
A story so precious and significant to you that it deserves to be immortalized and bound in the pages of time. A legacy to be treasured, revisited, enjoyed, shared, loved, and passed down through generations to come.
How would that make you feel?
We take thousands of photographs only to bury them deep in the digital depths, fleetingly enjoyed and quickly forgotten.
Our stories define who we are.
They deserve to be remembered forever.
From start to finish, the entire experience of working to create our own copy of LIFE was an absolute pleasure. Ian meticulously designed every element of the book, suggesting we include vellum pages and by adding beautiful graphics that he designed to match our wedding stationary. No updates or changes were too minor and the attention to detail is evident on every page. The final product is nothing short of breathtaking. Every chapter tells the story of our wedding weekend. The quality of the book itself is truly exceptional and it’s clear that a lot of care went into the creation of the book.
BLAIZE & DANNY – Wedding book, UK
Hand crafted
LIFE is a piece of art rather than just a photo album or coffee table book. Your copy of LIFE is designed just for you by Ian, a highly skilled and experienced graphic designer. We can include any element of your life chapter, adventure or celebration so your book tells the whole story. Each book is put together by masters in the arts of printing and bookbinding, using techniques that go back generations. So much love and care goes in to making each copy of LIFE because we know it’s going to be the most cherished heirloom, that you will pass down through the generations.
Every book is bespoke
Click on a book to look inside.
(Best experienced with sound turned on!)
A Cotswold Wedding
An African Adventure
Love in Capri
A Country house Wedding
A Luxury Hotel Wedding
The First Years
An English Summer Wedding
A Halloween Wedding
A Country Home Wedding
Meet the Storytellers Behind LIFE
To date, we’ve crafted over 300 copies of LIFE, each one preserving special memories and life chapters for our clients. And we can’t wait to help you do the same.
So why choose LIFE?
1. We take away the overwhelm
We understand how overwhelming it can be to select photos from such a large collection. You’re faced with lack of time and simply not knowing where to begin. It may be that your photos are all in different places. That you have an emotional attachment to each photo. Where do you start? How do you choose? Don’t worry, we hold your hand through the entire process. We can either help you select the best photos for your story, or you can simply send everything and we can curate the collection for you.
2. A totally bespoke service
The is not a one-size-fits-all, cookie cutter approach. You are in the hands of experts. We don’t use templates. Each book is totally unique and professionally designed especially for you.
3. The world's most luxurious scrapbook
LIFE is so much more than simply a book of photographs. Imagine the most luxurious scrapbook holding all your precious memories. As well as your photos, these could be invitations, menus, song lyrics, illustrations, speeches, personal letters, boarding passes/tickets, travel itineraries, drawings, favourite recipes, quotes – anything that is unique to your story.
4. An expert team
Your copy of LIFE will be printed and made by a team of the finest bookbinders in the world. They are masters in their craft. Your book is put together by a handmade process perfected over generations and we personally follow the production from start to finish, ensuring that your copy of LIFE will be quite simply perfect.
5. The very best materials
Every copy of LIFE is made using the very best archival paper and materials, ensuring that your book will last for generations.
6. The sky’s the limit!
We can do anything in the world of book production. If you have a special request, don’t be afraid to ask. It may be an unusual leather for your cover, a fabric swatch included as an insert, a pocket to hold a cherished love letter or a special display case made from a rare wood.
Whatever your heart desires, we can create the book of your dreams!
LIFE is the ultimate bespoke luxury heirloom. No other book tells such a complete story.
I wanted to email to say how grateful I am for the book you have put together for my 18th birthday! It’s amazing how I recognize every single photo, and how you have compiled it so beautifully.
Millie – Life chapter book – First 18 years
Our promise to you is that your copy of LIFE will be the most precious heirloom, a testament to your stories, ensuring that you can pass them down through generations, so they will never be forgotten.
I’m just looking through the first draft of our copy of LIFE. Thank you so much, it is BEAUTIFUL! I am only half way through and in floods of happy tears. It really is so magical seeing the gorgeous images pulled together to tell the story so perfectly of one of the most special days of our lives. I don’t think I can ever thank you both enough!
SOPHIE & LUKAS – Wedding book, UK
So how do you create your very own copy of LIFE?
- The first step is to contact us so we can discuss your story and chat about the exciting process ahead.
- The next step is for you to send us all the images and artwork you would like us to include in your book. If you have a good idea of the images you want to include then just send us that collection. If you have so many images and just don't know where to start, we can curate your collection for you. Just send us everything you have and we can take it from there.
- The magical design stage comes next. This starts with a Zoom call to discuss your individual brief.
- Once we've created the first draft, you then proof the book, making sure it's just as you want and we can make any tweaks at this stage.
- The final stage of the process is the printing and binding of the book. This is where your story really comes to LIFE.
- Finally you get to receive your very own bespoke story book that captures every special moment of the story you wanted to tell. Snuggle up and enjoy it with your loved ones and friends.
Everyone has a story to bring to LIFE.
What’s yours?
Books give a soul to the universe,
wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination
and LIFE to everything.
Plato
