At LIFE by Pippa Mackenzie, we create luxury heirloom coffee table books, designed to preserve your most meaningful memories for generations.
Each book we create transforms photographs, memories and meaningful details into a luxurious heirloom coffee table book. Thoughtfully designed and beautifully crafted, these bespoke books preserve personal stories in a timeless form that can be shared and treasured by future generations.
Whether celebrating a wedding, documenting a family’s journey, or preserving a lifetime of memories, our books are designed to honour life’s most important chapters.
This is not a photo album.
It’s your story – elevated into art.
We’re Pippa and Ian – a husband-and-wife team passionate about storytelling and design. Pippa’s BAFTA-winning background in documentary filmmaking and photography, and Ian’s extensive design expertise, have come together to create LIFE – luxury heirloom coffee table books that allow you to preserve your story in a way that is truly unique.
The idea for LIFE was sparked while planning our wedding. Inspired by the grace and artistry of the book, ‘Vera Wang on Weddings’, we realised there was a gap in the market for a bespoke book design service that blends artistic storytelling with luxury design.
Our promise to you is that your copy of LIFE will be the most precious heirloom book. A testament to your stories, ensuring that your legacy is passed down through generations.
PIPPA & IAN
It might be your wedding story, an adventure of a lifetime, a landmark birthday celebration, your child’s first year, a forever home renovation or the extraordinary arc of a life well lived.
Your photographs exist – thousands of them. Each one a fragment of your journey. Yet they lie unseen, scattered across devices, tucked away, waiting.
You keep meaning to do something special with them – but life just gets in the way.
You don’t have the time and you feel overwhelmed. Months are quietly turning into years.
Your photos are incredibly important to you. You want to create something meaningful, something tangible, something that truly brings your story to life – but where do you start?
That’s where we can help.
Because nothing less than extraordinary will do.
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.
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.
There are multiple finishing options. Choose from a wide variety of cover materials and blocking foils, bespoke endpapers, many colours of woven headbands, artwork pockets, and page ribbons. We’re always looking at ways to make your copy of LIFE quite simply extraordinary.
LIFE is so much more than simply a book of photographs. Imagine the most luxurious story book 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.
Your copy of LIFE will be printed and bound by a team of the finest book binders 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.
Every copy of LIFE is made using the very best archival paper and materials, ensuring that your heirloom book will last for generations.
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 it is, we can create it.
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