your memories in your hands
BY HAND
The Atelier
our couture line — custom books, made one at a time
The Atelier
scoped in conversation
made by hand, one at a time
a small atelier of editors, designers, and binders making custom books — wedding albums, journey books, memorial volumes — scoped with you over WhatsApp, never a template
- —linen cover, gold seal, archival paper
- —pages, paper, binding, tone — chosen privately
- —one book at a time, no two alike
Order when you're ready
single pieces, composed and shipped
The Stack
from $5
composed, printed, shipped
each memory its own polaroid card on black card stock, gold-foil edges, ribbon-tied — the slow way to send a handful of moments
- —caption and date pressed on the back
- —QR code links to the Living Photo
- —ships tied in ribbon or sleeved in linen
The Album
from $40
a jar, bound
up to a hundred memories, printed on heavy art paper, bound in linen, pressed with a gold seal on the cover
- —one memory per spread
- —Living Photos become QR-code pages
- —captions and emotions preserved
Subscriptions
we curate from your jars, you receive
The Monthly Stack
$30 / year
a new Stack, every month
each month we curate the most active jar, print the Stack, and mail it — twelve dispatches over a year
- —no composing — we curate from your jars
- —proof sent for approval before each print run
- —pause or cancel at any time
The Annual Album
$99 / year
your year, bound
at year end we choose the memories worth keeping across your jars, compose a linen-bound volume, and ship it with the seal on the cover
- —five memories chosen a month, bound at year end
- —full PDF proof before print
- —one book per subscriber, one year at a time
How every piece is made
four small notes about the craft
paper that remembers
heavy archival stock, FSC-certified — the kind that holds a fingerprint as kindly as it holds a photograph
living photos on the page
every moving image becomes a discreet QR on the page — touch your phone to it and the scene plays back, the voice returns
the gold seal
pressed by hand on the cover, the way a wax seal closes a letter — the only gold in the piece, and the only place it belongs
slow delivery
we do not rush — proofs are sent, approvals are awaited; most pieces ship within two to three weeks, unhurried on purpose
choose something worth keeping
a Stack, an Album, a custom book from the Atelier— or all three
Custom Photo Books, Polaroid Stacks & Subscription Photo Albums — Lumhaa