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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

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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.

Book headbands
Brass debossing blocks
Foil rolls for stamping
Made by master book makers

Every book is bespoke

Click on a book to look inside.

(Best experienced with sound turned on!)

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A Cotswold Wedding

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An African Adventure

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Love in Capri

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A Country house Wedding

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A Luxury Hotel Wedding

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The First Years

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An English Summer Wedding

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A Halloween Wedding

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A Country Home Wedding

Pippa Mackenzie

Meet the Storytellers Behind LIFE

Hi! We’re Pippa and Ian – a husband-and-wife team passionate about storytelling and design. With Pippa’s BAFTA-winning background in documentary photography and filmmaking, and Ian’s extensive design expertise, we’ve combined our talents to create LIFE – a luxurious, timeless coffee table book that allows you to connect with your story in a way that’s truly unique.
 
The idea for LIFE sparked while planning our own wedding. Pippa fell in love with the style and elegance of Vera Wang on Weddings, and we realized there was a gap in the market for a bespoke book that blends artistic storytelling with luxury design.
 
As parents to our 11-year-old daughter, Poppy, preserving life’s precious moments has become even more meaningful to us. We believe in slowing down, savouring life’s little moments, and creating something lasting – something that ensures stories aren’t just stored in the cloud, but cherished for generations.

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?

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