The welcome binder, the laminated Wi-Fi card, the printed PDF taped to the fridge — these are operational. By the second day guests have stopped reading them.
A coffee-table volume is something else. It says someone took the place seriously. It says the house wants to be remembered. Guests open it instead of opening their phones.
We make them for properties whose hosts understand the difference. Your photographs, your neighborhood, your story — bound the way a hotel monograph is bound, and printed on paper that ages well.
You share photographs of the property, notes on the neighborhood, the line you would have written on a card by the door. We take the rough draft from there.
Our editorial system sets the volume to house typography — sixteen to thirty-two pages, sequenced. You review the draft and tell us what to change.
The volume is hand-stitched in small runs, printed on uncoated paper and wrapped in linen bookcloth, foil-stamped on the spine. Three to five copies, shipped in roughly forty days.
“I bought this place because of the morning light — that’s the honest answer. When the sun rises, the whole living room turns soft pink for about twenty minutes.”
“The cabin runs on woodsmoke and quiet. Stack the stove before you go to bed; the morning is colder than you think.”
A host’s letter. The space. Getting in. The neighborhood, in your voice. House rules, redrawn as requests.
170 gsm uncoated
Hand-stitched signatures
Imagine is a small press. We set, bind, and post a single coffee-table volume for one short-term rental at a time. Every volume — first or twentieth — carries the same brass-foil capital on the cover, the same hand-stitched signatures, the same uncoated paper.
The mark is the only thing every volume shares. The rest is your home.
From a softbound first volume to a hardcover small-run edition — every commission is set, bound, and printed in the same house style. The editions differ in scope, not in care.
per volume · printed and delivered
A softbound volume in the same house style. The accessible way to bring your property into the imprint.
per volume · printed and delivered
The house edition. Hardcover, linen-wrapped, foil-stamped, in a small run.
per volume · printed and delivered
For property managers and collectors. Larger run, custom case-binding.
Managing more than three properties? Write to us about the imprint.