Every idea contains its own solution.
My role is to discover the form it was always meant to take.

I founded Mazzotti Books in East London in 2012. I didn’t arrive at bookbinding through a traditional route. Before establishing the studio, I studied engineering and immersed myself in design, sculpture and printing. That combination continues to shape how I approach every commission.

I don’t begin with a binding structure, a material or a technique. I begin by understanding what the work is trying to communicate. Every decision that follows, from structure and materials to printing and binding, is guided by that idea. My aim is not simply to make a beautiful book, but to create the physical form in which the work feels complete.

I believe the best solutions emerge when technical precision, craftsmanship and material understanding work together in service of the idea.
The structure should feel inevitable, as though the book could never have existed in any other form.

Over the past fifteen years, books created by the studio have become part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the British Library, the Library of Congress, Tate Library, Stanford Libraries, Princeton University Library and the National Poetry Library.

My work has also been recognised with a QEST Scholarship, First Prize at the International Bookbinding Competition organised by the Society of Bookbinders, and selection as a Homo Faber Fellow by the Michelangelo Foundation.

Today, Mazzotti Books operates as a specialist studio, combining in-house craftsmanship with a trusted network of collaborators.
Each project draws on the expertise it requires while remaining guided by the care, discernment and judgement of a single maker.

If you’d like to discuss a project, I’d welcome the conversation.

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Selected Clients

Anya Hindmarch Joanna Piotrowska Saatchi & Saatchi Syplh Editions
Bookworks John Sandoe Books Sam Winston V&A
David Chipperfield Architects Jonny Briggs Santoni
Disney UK LCC Sézane
Faber Futures Liberty London Shezad Dawood
Hormazd Narielwalla Nancy Campbell Su Blackwell
Imperial College London Royal College of Art Suki Chan