Working side by side in their new sunlit premises in Oakland, California, making custom-made books in leather and cloth, everything seemed to be coming together for husband-and-wife team Ivar Diehl and Danya Winterman, co-founders of The Key Printing and Binding. But their marriage was in difficulties and last year they separated. But first they made a vow: “We promised that if we split up we would try to keep our business partnership going. It would have been too great a shame to destroy something we had built together,” says Mr Diehl.
作爲關鍵印刷裝訂公司(The Key Printing and Binding)共同創辦人，伊瓦爾•迪爾(Ivar Diehl)和丹尼亞•溫特曼(Danya Winterman)組成的夫妻團隊（上圖），在位於加利福尼亞州奧克蘭市的充滿陽光的新房子中並肩工作，用皮革和布料製作著定製書籍——一切似乎都是兩人共同打拼來的。不過，兩人的婚姻卻遭遇了困難，並於去年離婚了。然而，他們做的頭一件事，就是發下了一個誓言。迪爾表示：「我們承諾，就算我們分開了，我們也會努力將我們的商業夥伴關係維持下去。毀掉某種我們共同打造的東西，那是太大的遺憾。」