When I was around six years old, I took my grandmother’s radio apart and repaired it. I still love machines – we now have quite a collection of vintage printing machines which I collect, restore and display. I like to figure out how things work.

I do. We have five radios in the workshop. In the evenings, when my employees have left, I leave all the radios running in the different departments, as I walk through all of them. Bookbinding is very meditative, it goes well with jazz.

I have a few registered patents to my name. One is the ClemmUp®, which is a system I developed over ten years ago, which lets you clip menus inside the leather menu cover. One of the world’s most famous chefs approved it. It became an immediate hit and allowed us to become market leaders.

Gold embossing the product once you have completed it. After having spent so many hours working on the leather binding, the moment when you add the embossing is full of suspense – it can make or break (if it smears!) all the work you did before in just an instant.