Locations: Chicago, Naperville
We offer a cute 8×12 Keepsake album, the delightfully lap sized 10×14 Heirloom album, or a coffee table owning 12×16 Artisan album.
Whichever size you go with, you’ll need to choose a binding material. We’ll look at the swatches together during your album design consult but take a look and get familiar with options here.
Your album can be seamlessly bound by a single material or, for a little extra, it can be equipped with a cover panel of metal, wood, or a photo acrylic panel. These albums are highly customizable.
See a few examples below and let’s talk about what catches your eye!
Pictured top left: Seamless Sequoia Leather Cover in Smoke Gray with laser engraved “Carpenter” script title. Displayed in a Moss Green Linen Studio Box with Copper Ribbon. Top Right: Blush Cloud Leatherette Binding, Acrylic Photo Cover, Design Box in Blush Leatherette and Gold Brilliant Linen, Ivory Ribbon. Bottom Left: Dark Blue Signature Leather with Large Die Cut Window, Embossed Title, Blush Ribbon, Denim Blue Studio Box. Bottom Right: Fog Gray Distressed Leather binding and Sleeve, Varnished Metal Cover in Matte Gray, Etched with Custom Crest Graphic Drawn by Client.
Standard Materials
If you have purchased an 8×12” Keepsake Album with us then it includes your choice of any standard cover material and a title method of your choice*. Metal, Acrylic, and photo cover embellishments are available for the Keepsake at extra charge. Leather covers are also available at additional charge for standard equiped albums.
Maple
It’s never been sweeter. This is perfect topping for the barn or wooded outdoors wedding.
What is the material? An organic fiber has been resinated to imbue this durable material with a texture recalling woodgrain. A range of earthen to vivid floral colors are available.
Cloud Leatherette
Available in a wide range of colors enriched with a textured painterly effect. It has a matte finish and a soft smooth touch calling to mind fine grained leather. Offers high resistance to wear and tear.
Class Leatherette
Our Leatherette is further enriched with a velvety satin finishing. It offers high resistance to wear and tear and excellent touch.
Eco Leather
Fabric made from eco-friendly yet high resistance materials. Advanced coating techniques offer exceptional firmness and a lycra-like satin surface appreciated by architects and designers. It comes in some really unique colors.
Linen Fabric
Natural, 70% linen and 30% cotton fabric with a compact texture. Selected after careful research, it offers high resistance to wear combined with perfect adherence even on the round lines of the covers. Comes in a wide color palette of warm and natural tones for my naturalists.
Cotton Fabric*
This is really Standard plus. It’s a new offering from our binders. Made of woven fabric from natural fibres – 80% cotton and 20% linen. Extremely resistant to wear and tear while pleasantly smooth to the touch. Comes in shades ranging from warm and natural tones to full and rich colors.. *There is a $35 fee to upgrade to Cotton from Standard Bindings.
Signature Leather
Signature Leather
The Signature Leather has a pebbled or marbled grain structure and a semi-gloss painted finish available in 21 colors. It is a durable and timeless cover.
The Heirloom Collection (Wedding Bundle) came with a complimentary Signature Leather upgrade! All the standard options above are available to you if you prefer.
Upgrading from a Keepsake or A la Carte Pricing, it’s $60-89 for Signature Leather and includes a title.
Fine Leathers
Pamper your Keepsake or Heirloom Album with the softest and most charactered leathers we have.
Napa
An extremely soft “flawless” fine grain leather with a semi-gloss finish. It’s available in neutral or bold colors. You’ll find her flaws, then forgive her. How easy it is to forgive her.
Distressed
All this wear and tear is distressing. Well, this fine full grained leather is treated with aniline to ensure resistance to wear. It has natural fine lines, creases, that streak across imbuing the unique character of someone who has known both pain and love’s redemption. The painted finish is semi-glossed, more matte than the Napa leather’s high-gloss finish.
Sequoia
This is aniline treated Nubuck leather which means it has been sanded on the durable outer layer. The aniline treatment, brushing, and other aging give this leather a soft tactile feel and a vintage patina. Wes’ favorite! It looks great Debossed in all caps or etched with a script.
$150 for Keepsake & Heirloom Albums – $200 for Artisan Albums
COVERS & TITLES
We can title your book with any of the following techniques depending on your goals; Embossing (stamping), Engraving (laser carving), or Printing.
Cover Panels
Instead of having a seamless binding material wrapping the front of your album, you may like the look of a varnished metal panel, a stained wood cover, or an acrylic panel with a full bleed printed picture beneath.
Browse these bold embellishments.
Wood
Handcrafted natural oak wood compliments your book with a natural strength and tactile feel. Available in plain (LR01, LR03 and LR04) or brushed finishing (LR02/S). Wood is a complimentary option if you’ve stepped into a Fine leather and is $110 to add to a Keepsake or Heirloom Album with Standard or Signature covers. $150 for Artisan Size.
Crystal Glance
An 1/8” thick panel of clear acrylic seals a photograph beneath it allowing you to have a full cover photograph featured prominently. $110 on a Keepsake or Heirloom, $150 on Artisan
Metal Paint
The 1/8 inch thick, solid aluminum plate is varnished using an auto industry process ensuring a smooth flawless finish.
Metal Paint comes in 20 colors across 4 finishes: Varnished, Metallized, Pastel and Touch. You can customize the Metal further through laser engraving, which reveals the aluminum underneath, or you can use color overprinting. This allows us to do anything from simple text to an elaborate carving on the face of your album.
The Metal Paint cover is a premium upgrade for Standard and Signature covers and adds $150 to K & H albums or $190 to an Artisan. Pricing includes simple line of text titling. Custom Graphics like those shown above are $60 extra.
Box & Lining Materials
Your Studio Box is finished with Linen in your choice of 2 finishes – Matte or Brilliant.
Shown Above: Studio Box in Moss Green Flat Finish Linen
Matte Linen – dyed linen with a flat finish
Brilliant Linen – linen finished with a glossy metallic paint
Ribbon
This ribbon lifts your album out of its storage box. These are the colors currently available.
The Studio Box is already included for our Wedding Collection cients.
A la Carte $85-99
Other Boxes and Sleeves are Available too. We’ll look at those in our consult.
