Twelve masters paint the same child.
What children remember first is never the composition — it is the color. Klimt gold, Van Gogh blue, Monet violet. We hand them twelve of those colors, and the child standing in the painting is their own. One photo is all it takes.
- Twelve master paintings, each with its own art-history wall label
- Hardcover that opens completely flat across every spread
- All twelve pages approved by you before anything prints
- Cancel for a full refund any time before you approve
01 — Open it up
Every plate carries a wall label.
First they recognize the color, then they recognize themselves, and then they ask who painted it. The label answers: the painter, the year, the medium, and which museum holds the original. A bedtime story that doubles as a gallery tour.
Plate 01 · Vienna Secession
After Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Gustav Klimt · 1907 · Oil, silver and gold leaf
Original at Neue Galerie, New York
Plate 03 · Post-Impressionism
After The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh · 1889 · Oil on canvas
Original at MoMA, New York
Plate 06 · Impressionism
After the Water Lilies cycle
Claude Monet · 1914–1926 · Oil on canvas
Originals at Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
Twelve plates in all
Klimt · Neel · Van Gogh · Lempicka · Kahlo · Monet · Basquiat · Hockney · Freud · Picasso · Chagall · Sher-Gil
02 — The object itself
The kind of book that lies flat on the rug.
Children read on the floor. An ordinary hardcover snaps shut the moment you let go, and the gutter swallows half a face. So this one is a lay-flat hardcover: every spread opens completely flat, with nothing lost down the middle.
- Binding
Lay-flat hardcover
Spreads lie flat; the gutter never eats the picture.
- Cover
Hardcover
Spine out on a shelf — not something that goes in a drawer.
03 — Will your photo work
A phone snapshot is enough.
The color, the brushwork and the composition are on us. Only the face has to come from the photo you send — which is why this is the first thing we spell out.
Good
Facing the camera, natural light
Outdoors or by a window. No studio session needed.
Workable
Indoors, a little shadowy
We lift the exposure before painting. Usually fine.
Send another
Blurry, side-on, sunglasses, group shot
We'll come back and ask for another rather than paint it badly.
Not sure? Order, send the photo, and we'll tell you before anything is painted.
04 — Price
One for home, or one more to give away.
The only difference between the tiers is how many copies. Same twelve paintings, same paper, same binding — the extra copies are cheaper to print.
1 copy
$49.99
$49.99 per book
For your own child. Twelve portraits, hardcover, flat on the rug.
Choose 1Save $4.99
2 copies
$94.99
$47.49 per book
One stays on your shelf, one goes to the grandparents. Few Christmas gifts for grandparents land like their grandchild painted by Klimt.
Choose 23 copies
$134.99
$44.99 per book · save $14.98
One for you and one for each set of grandparents — the reason this tier exists at all.
Choose 305 — Delivery
Does it have to land on the birthday?
Three stretches: we send the proofs, you approve them, we print and ship. The middle one is however long you need, so we only put real numbers on the other two.
- Proofs
Within 24 hours
All twelve pages, emailed to you.
- Your review
However long you need
Revise until it's right. We won't chase you.
- Print + deliver
United States: 17–22 Nov
If you order today and approve the same day, shipping to the country shown. Printed in the US, Germany or China depending on where it's going, and we email you tracking when it ships.
- To be safe
Order 3 weeks ahead
Leaves room for you to review and ask for changes.
They won't always be this small.
This face lasts a year or two. Toys break, clothes stop fitting, photos sink to the bottom of an album — a book with a spine stays on the shelf until they are old enough to open it themselves.
Start your book · from $49.99All twelve pages are yours to approve before anything prints; cancel for a full refund any time before you approve. If the finished book still disappoints, we remake it free or refund you in full.
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