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.
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
Every book is bespoke
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(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
Our Story
Hi! We’re Pippa and Ian. A husband-wife team of photographers and designers driven by a shared love for rich storytelling and elegant design.
In our home, beautiful books line the shelves. We’ve always been inspired by well designed books that tell great stories. It was during the planning of our wedding that Pippa fell in love with the Vera Wang on Weddings book. It was this book that went on to inspire us to create LIFE.
Our family, experiences and connections are incredibly important to us, and we feel passionate about keeping our stories alive. Not to be lost and forgotten in the cloud or on a hard drive, but to be cherished and enjoyed forever in a book that can be held and shared with others, time and time again.
We felt there was a gap in the market for a truly luxurious and beautifully designed wedding coffee-table book. And that’s why we created LIFE.
We feel passionate about stories and LIFE is the perfect way to tell and preserve your most special memories and life chapters.
We’ve now created over 300 different copies of LIFE for our own wedding and event clients. We’ve been so overwhelmed by the love we’ve received over the years that we’ve opened up the LIFE design service to anyone who has a story they want to tell.
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.
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.
Ana & Jonny – 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?
