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Papadakis produce award-winning, high quality, beautiful books on architecture, the decorative arts, fashion, science, nature and natural history.

Papadakis produced award-winning, high quality, beautiful books on architecture, the decorative arts, fashion, science, nature and natural history. Our books are exciting, authoritative and innovative, created by authors who are experts in their fields.

06/01/2025

Hitting the New Year with a flying start with our first major book of the year sent off to press today!

This project has been such a joy to work on and we're very excited to start sharing it all with you.

Aldo Sampieri ACC Art Books

16/12/2024

Standing on the foothills of Blencathra, one of the most northerly of the Cumbrian mountains, with my author Michael Hambrey. He lives just a few meters further down, and gave us a wonderful tour of the land he recently gifted to Friends of the Lake District. This was the morning after Michael’s special talk and the launch of ‘Our Frozen Planet’ at the Keswick Museum.

Here are a few more photographs of Blencathra from the book - all taken by Michael

Slide 1: Michael Hambrey & Alexandra Papadakis with Blencathra in the background
Slide 2: A spread from ‘Our Frozen Planet’, showing a stone barn in the village of Threlkeld in front of Blencathra.
Slide 3: Snow cornices hanging over the 800m high Blencathra mountain.
Slide 4: The Neolithic stone circle of Castlerigg, Keswick, English Lake District.

26/11/2024

Can you believe it's only a month until Christmas? If you’re still searching for the perfect gift, step into a winter wonderland with Our Frozen Planet and bring the magic of snow and ice to someone you love. This breathtaking photographic journey through Earth’s most pristine icy landscapes makes an unforgettable present for anyone who dreams of a white Christmas.

Find your own copy --> https://www.waterstones.com/book/our-frozen-planet/michael-hambrey/j-rg-alean/9781906506735
https://shorturl.at/EiSY5

22/11/2024

What a fabulous evening at yesterday - our author was in conversation with .sheldrake and they discussed the intricacies of plants and fungi to a sold-out audience, before signing copies of their books. This marked the end of a fabulous series of talks to celebrate 10 years of this remarkable venue. I was delighted to get my book signed by Melvin who was charming, and reminded me of funghi’s version of Prof Brian Cox, with his boyish enthusiasm and infectious curiosity for his own invisible world of mycelial networks. I’m proud to have supported this evening as Rob’s publisher, to have our book Seeds on display, and see so many positive reactions to it.

15/11/2024

Art and science combine at the microscopic level in this fascinating, wide-ranging conversation between Rob Kesseler and Merlin Sheldrake.

🌱 SEEDS author and artist Rob Kesseler will be giving a talk with 🍄 Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life, at Victoria Works Studios in Stroud next week. There will be a book signing post-talk.

Seeds – Time Capsules of Life is out now!
👉links to purchase: https://papadakis.net/books/seeds/

ACC Art Books

13/11/2024

This remarkable photograph shows an 'ice pillar', a phenomenon whereby plate-shaped ice crystals floating horizontally in the air act as countless tiny mirrors, reflecting light from a source on the ground and producing this ethereal beam of light.

Captured by the authors of OUR FROZEN PLANET, this is just one of over 230 spectacular photographs that make up this stunning book.

Just in time for Christmas, OUR FROZEN PLANET is out now. It's the perfect gift for the adventurer in your life, although you may well find you want to keep it for yourself...

Find links to purchase OUR FROZEN PLANET here: https://papadakis.net/books/our-frozen-planet/

09/11/2024

I’ve just been given this wonderful book “Bookshops of London”, published in 1981. It lists my father’s two bookshops on Holland Street, W8, London, just before he opened a third at the Royal College of Art. We lived above the Academy Bookshop, and as you can see by the last photos, I spent quite a bit of time in there from a young age! It was running the Academy Bookshop that led my father to start his publishing business Academy Editions.

The area of Holland Street was synonymous with artists, fashion designers and musicians throughout the mid-‘60s, ‘70s and into the ‘80s. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin opened The Equinox directly opposite the Academy Bookshop and sold books on the occult.

Huge thanks to Michel La Rue for finding this book for me 😍

04/11/2024

We are delighted to share that two of our books, Seeds - Time Capsules of Life, and Food Planet Future, have been shortlisted for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards🏆

📘FOOD PLANET FUTURE has been shortlisted in two categories: Food Security, and Climate and Food
📗SEEDS has been shortlisted for Best Design

🏆The “Best in the World” will be announced at the World Cookbook Fair - Gourmand International - Gourmand Awards awards ceremony in June 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal.

FOOD PLANET FUTURE is an extraordinary visual tour of everyday foods, and the knowledge and techniques that could help to reverse climate change threats and biodiversity loss. It was written by the science educator and artist Robert Dash Photography.

SEEDS is a fascinating close-up look into seeds from the collection of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank, presenting a natural history of seeds like no other. It is the work of a scientist Wolfgang Stuppy and an artist Rob Kesseler. The book was recently translated into German by DK Books under the title SAMEN - Zeitkapseln des Lebens.

Both books were recently published by Papadakis, and are the result of many years of dedication hard work by our authors and our publishing team.

Thank you to everyone who helped us to produce these beautiful books, and huge thanks to everyone who supported these books by buying a copy.

01/11/2024

We’ve come to the end of a wonderful month of Seed Gathering Season, with some fantastic collaborations with The Tree Council. We’re looking forward to finding out the winners of the giveaway and who will be receiving their prize copies of Seeds – Time Capsules of Life

As comes to a close, we want to thank everyone who participated and explored the beauty of seeds, and those who celebrated their role in preserving biodiversity. A special thank you to The Tree Council for this wonderful partnership. Together, we’ve made an impact in raising awareness of seed conservation, while spreading the message of sustainability and the vital importance of seeds.

🌱 SEEDS – TIME CAPSULES OF LIFE is out now! Head to our website (linked in our linktree in bio) for links to buy the book, and keep an eye on this space for more exciting events and collaborations. 🌱

30/10/2024

We are proud and delighted to have collaborated with DK Verlag on their co-edition of Seeds - Time Capsules of Life, which is published under the title: Samen - Zeitkapseln des Lebens. Here are a few photos from Frankfurt Book fair where the book was on display on the DK stand. Samen is out now and we’re excited to see this book available to the German market!

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https://www.dorlingkindersley.de/buch/wolfgang-stuppy-rob-kesseler-samen-9783831049974

23/10/2024

Reflecting on a super Frankfurt which saw our new books Seeds, Our Frozen Planet, and Food Planet Future showcased by our new distributor as well as the superb new co-edition with of Seeds. We met with old friends and new, shared news on forthcoming projects, and discussed all aspects of publishing among a worldwide gathering of publishers.

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17/10/2024

OUR FROZEN PLANET documents our authors' adventures into some of the most remote places on the planet. Capturing the beauty of such extreme and remote locations requires skill, patience, and a high tolerance to the cold! Here, they have made their way to the top of on an iceberg stranded on the shore of Kongsfjorden.

OUR FROZEN PLANET is out now, and filled with breathtaking images such as this one! You can purchase it here 👇

https://www.waterstones.com/book/our-frozen-planet/michael-hambrey/j-rg-alean/9781906506735

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Frozen-Planet-Photographic-Journey/dp/1906506736/ref=sr_1_1?crid=23NXW5N0XUCON&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MuAAV7NILxbVFKNsdzmxU5Hdzj49scnjkSQG9Lf9t3LGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.SehPpkWhriyR5G68LPnbRQnbhGVhM0pfPGZ0RXYAaGo&dib_tag=se&keywords=our+frozen+planet+hambrey&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1729165377&sprefix=our+frozen+pl%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-1

🎨Designed by Aldo Sampieri
❄️Distributed by ACC Art Books_
📷Big thanks to Vessi Ves for this stunning shot of the book

16/10/2024

It's so what better time than now to get your hands on a copy of FOOD PLANET FUTURE by the brilliant Robert Dash Photography!

Robert's intricate photo montages show food in never-seen-before ways, affording visual delight and encouraging us to explore the possibilities of growing food sustainably on a warming planet.

🎨 Design Director: Aldo Sampieri
📦 Distributor: ACC Art Books
📷 Big thanks to Vessi Ves for these stunning shots of the book

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15/10/2024

We're off to Frankfurter Buchmesse! Especially excited for the Book Fair this year given how strong our Autumn '24 titles are, and how many fantastic projects we have in the works for 2025.

Our most recent titles will be on display at ACC Art Books at 6.1 / B100, and Alexandra Papadakis will be presenting all of our upcoming titles for 2025. We have some incredibly exciting books to work on, with subjects ranging from sustainability and regenerative agriculture, to gemstones and jewellery, to sacred and psychoactive plants. 2025 is going to be super.

Our brand new catalogue is hot off the press, and it looks fantastic - you can download your own copy, and please feel free to share the link with others.

We've had a brilliant year, and only more good things to come!

Preview and download the new Papadakis catalogue👇
https://papadakis.net/.../PP-Catalogue-2024-Autumn_web01.pdf

14/10/2024

We are delighted to announce that OUR FROZEN PLANET is officially published today!

We're immensely proud of all the work that has gone into this beautiful volume. The spectacular photography of our authors, paired with their critical message, makes this title truly special.

Find your own copy of OUR FROZEN PLANET:
📘Waterstones: https://shorturl.at/jDxU3
📘Amazon: https://shorturl.at/XD2nL

🎨Designed by Aldo Sampieri
❄️Distributed by ACC Art Books

📷Huge gratitude to Vessi Ves for the stunning shots of the book

12/10/2024

FOOD PLANET FUTURE had a super feature in yesterday's The i paper - who selected it as their "Coffee Table Choice" even though the book is much more than that! As well as calling Robert Dash Photography's work "awe-inspiring", they described it "an illustrated guide of the knowledge and techniques that could help to reverse climate change threats and biodiversity loss".

11/10/2024

OUR FROZEN PLANET is out next week!

Join our authors on a breathtaking visual journey through our planet's unique realms of ice and snow.

Pre-orders are open, so head to Waterstones or Amazon to be one of the first to receive Our Frozen Planet on the 14th October.

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A little more behind the scenes for you all: production of our new book SEEDS – TIME CAPSULES OF LIFE by @robkesseler and @wolfgangstuppy is almost complete. Here, the printed sheets are being folded and gathered, ready to be bound into individual books. ⁠ ⁠ Copies of SEEDS will be in bookshops from 16th September. ⁠ ⁠ #onpress #productionline #printing #seeds #seedstimecapsulesoflife #seedcollecting #seedsofchange #mustreads #naturephotography #naturebook #Papadakis #papadakisbooks #independentpublisher #newbook #newbookstagram #septemberrelease #robkesseler #wolfgangstuppy #kew #kewgardens #millenniumseedbank #plantphotography #seedphotography #microscopephotography

A little behind the scenes for you all: our new book SEEDS – TIME CAPSULES OF LIFE by the brilliant @robkesseler and @wolfgangstuppy is on press! By necessity we have to allow a little extra time on press for a book of this size and complexity to ensure the highest production values; a small price to pay for one as fantastic as SEEDS! We are so excited for this groundbreaking title to hit shelves. ⁠ ⁠ Copies in bookshops from September. ⁠ ⁠ #onpress #seedstimecapsulesoflife #seedsaving #heirloomseeds #seedsofchange #mustreads #naturephotography #Papadakis #papadakisbooks #booklaunch #booklaunching #independentpublisher #colourproofs #newbook #newbookstagram #septemberrelease #robkesseler #wolfgangstuppy #kew #kewgardens #sem #plantphotography #seedphotography #microscopephotography