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24/11/2025

A happy sight at 🌿✨

Stacks of 100 Plants That Almost Changed the World by on the centre tables alongside a gorgeous selection of other books - including many others from the Papadakis list!

There’s something very special about seeing our books out in the wild: loved, stocked, displayed, and alive in the hands of readers. Huge thanks to the South Ken team for championing beautifully made, thoughtfully crafted books on art, nature, science and the stories that connect them.

If you’re in the South Kensington area, do pop in - it’s a treasure trove. 📚💚

22/11/2025

Take a peek behind the scenes into the printing process of 100 Plants That (Almost) Changed The World by – a fascinating journey through 100 remarkable plants that have shaped human history, science, culture, and discovery 📗🪴🌻

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🔗Order your copy from the link in our bio

21/11/2025

Steven White’s copy of Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas ✨ in his beautiful home, with a vase of Brugmansia quietly echoing the sacred plants held within the pages.
There’s something incredibly moving about seeing a book in the hands and home of its creators – a truly full circle moment after years of research, dialogue, and creative exchange.

So proud of this extraordinary book 🌱📖

📷 by Esthela Calderón

🌱📗✨Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas is available to buy now.
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19/11/2025

What a wonderful review of Microcosms - Sacred Plants of the Americas in Psychedelic Press.

"As an example of the space in which science and art meet, Microcosms is an excellent and thoughtful contribution. As with any decent ‘coffee table book’ it will be worth revisiting many times over. It is shot through with inspiration, both artistic and otherwise. As a kind of architecture of sacred plants, the imagery teaches us that other worlds, be they fairy-like, microscopic, or DMT-induced, often have a mysterious and enchanting logic all of their own."

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➡Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas Microcosms, by Steven F. White and Jill Pflugheber is available now!

Review of Microcosms by Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White

10/11/2025

🎄 This Friday, the team from Papadakis will be taking our books & prints out into the festive wild! Join us at the Watermill Theatre Christmas Fair for a local-market moment filled with inspiration, colour and festive inspiration!

📍 Where: Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury RG20 8AE
📅 When: Friday (14 Nov) – 10.00am to 2.30pm

🎁🎁🎁What we’re bringing:
📗 A selection of our award-winning science, environment, art and photography books — perfect for gifts or for your own personal delight

✍️ Author-signed editions

🖼️ Our brand-new art prints (hot off the press from our print shop: https://shop.papadakis.net/collections/art-prints) - think bold imagery, galleries at home, wrapping that says “wow”

✨ Why drop by? We’ll be there to chat about the stories behind our books, the artists and scientists we collaborate with, and the creative worlds they open up. Plus it’s a gorgeous seasonal setting, supporting local makers, festive treats (we hear mince pies & mulled wine at the venue!) and the joy of connecting with our creative community in person.

❤️ Bring your curiosity, your wish-list, your “I want something out of the ordinary” mindset. We’ll bring the books, the art, and the conversation.

See you on Friday – we can’t wait!

07/11/2025

🌎 Ahead of COP30: voices from the Amazon 🌿

As world leaders prepare to gather in Belém – the gateway to the Amazon – for COP30, few voices carry as much moral authority as that of Chief Raoni Metuktire, the legendary Kayapó leader and lifelong defender of the rainforest.

For over half a century, Chief Raoni has campaigned for the protection of the Amazon and the rights of Indigenous peoples. His message to COP30 is clear: the time has come to criminalise ecocide and safeguard the forest that sustains our planet’s climate.

We are exceptionally proud to have published Spirit of the Amazon by Sue and Patrick Cunningham – a powerful visual and narrative record of this struggle. Journeying 2,500 km along the Xingu River, the Cunninghams travelled deep into the rainforest to visit 48 Indigenous tribes. Their vivid storytelling reveals a deep personal connection to the communities they have documented since the 1980s.

Through striking photography and first-hand accounts, Spirit of the Amazon captures the richness of these cultures – their rituals, resilience, and deep reverence for the forest – while bearing witness to the urgent threats they face from deforestation and exploitation. It is both a celebration and a call to action: a reminder that the survival of these communities is bound to the health of the planet itself.

As COP30 shines a global spotlight on the Amazon, we draw hope and inspiration from the passion and dedication of all those fighting for cultural preservation and environmental respect in the Amazon and across the globe.

05/11/2025

🌱 This year marks 25 years of the Millennium Seed Bank, Kew – an extraordinary project safeguarding the future of the world’s plants.
 
21 years ago, we collaborated with a scientist and artist at and the Millennium Seed Bank to publish Seeds – Time Capsules of Life – a groundbreaking work that revealed, for the first time, the astonishing microscopic beauty and diversity of seeds.
 
Our authors, Dr. Wolfgang Stuppy and Prof. Rob Kesseler, helped bring the hidden world of seeds to the public eye, bridging art, science, and conservation in this seminal book.
 
The foreword, written by HRH The Prince of Wales (now King Charles III), reflects his lifelong passion for plant conservation – a message that still resonates profoundly today.
 
As the Millennium Seed Bank celebrates its 25th anniversary, we’re proud to look back on this shared legacy and the continuing relevance of this remarkable work to plant science, biodiversity, and design today.
 
📖 Seeds –Time Capsules of Life

📸 Seeds – Time Capsules of Life book images shot by
 

01/11/2025

A wonderful evening in the iconic setting of the V&A, where gave a sold-out talk about A Life of Colour. Her interviewer, journalist Ranvir Singh, was exceptional, and it was such a joy to see Kiki’s book illuminated on the big screen and signed by her afterwards. So proud to have published this beautiful celebration of creativity and design.

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📷 Alexandra Papadakis & Josette Gerlier, apart from slide 2: Kiki McDonough

31/10/2025

✨ A night to remember ✨
We gathered at Massachusetts General Hospital for Art & Science at the Intersection of the Psychedelic Renaissance, celebrating the launch of Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas by F. White and Pflugheber.

An evening where art, science, and spirit came together – with an exhibition of breathtaking confocal images, powerful talks, book signings, and our first meeting in person after a year of collaboration.

📖🌱 A heartfelt thank you to our hosts at MGH’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics and Harvard Medical School, and in particular to Stephen Haggarty and Surya Reis for making it all possible, and to everyone who joined us. And of course thank you to Steven & Jill for creating a truly visionary book.

📷 Alexandra Papadakis & Esthela Calderon
📗Microcosms - Sacred Plants of the Americas is available now

24/10/2025

Today is the day we’ll be presenting this incredible book in Boston, with an exhibition, talks, and signings at the Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital.

Publishing Director Alexandra Papadakis joins as a featured speaker on an esteemed lineup which include our two authors Steven White and Jill Pflugheber, and our remarkable host Dr Stephen Haggarty - Scientific Director of chemical neurobiology, and researcher of The Neuroscience of Psychedelics at the Haggarty Lab / MGH.

Links to the recorded zoom talks will be posted at a later date.

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➡Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas is available now! Find links for purchase in our bio.

23/10/2025

Have you ever wondered about the remarkable plants held sacred by Indigenous people? Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas by Jill Pflugheber & Steven F. White is an otherworldly journey through the inner lives of 50 such plants, from the secrets of ayahuasca to the mystical experiences of psilocybin mushrooms, the ceremonial use of to***co, to the ancestral roots of corn and potatoes.

A sacred plant revered for millennia, Lophophora williamsii - known as Hikuli or Pe**te - lies at the meeting point of science, art, and spirit. In Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas, confocal microscopy reveals astonishing hidden beauty of plants that have shaped human culture, from the cellular scale to the cosmic.

Scroll through to explore the story of the “divine cactus”. 🌵✨

✨ Slide 1: The “Divine Cactus”: Confocal microscopy image of Lophophora williamsii

🏵 Slide 2: Close-up of a pe**te button. A living sacrament 🌿
Thornless, fleshy, crowned with a single pink flower - pe**te is a master of desert camouflage and symbol of spiritual awakening.

🖼 Slide 3: “Native peoples of Mexico have eaten pe**te ceremonially for seven thousand years.” ~Wade Davis

🖼️ Slide 3: Yarn painting on Campeche beeswax and plywood by Wixárika artist José Benítez Sánchez. For the Huichol (Wixárika), pe**te is a sacred teacher - the source of song, story, fertility, and the shaman’s vision of the deer and the sun.

🔬 Slide 4: Confocal microscopy image of Lophophora williamsii

📗 Slide 5: Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas by Jill Pflugheber & Steven F. White
Where art and science meet, revealing the intricate worlds within these sacred plants. Published by Papadakis Publisher.

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➡Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas is available now! Find links for purchase in our bio.

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18/10/2025

Here is our stand at Frankfurt. We are proud to be showcasing an immense selection of new books and forthcoming projects in the fields of art, culture, design, nature, and the environment.

This year, Papadakis is sharing the space with the wonderful German art publisher . Publishing is all about friendships and collaborations around the world, and nothing amplifies that more than the spirit of a book fair and connecting in real life with partners, customers, and wonderful friends who share a love for beautiful books.

This is the 77th Frankfurt Book Fair, and our address for the week is Hall 6.1 / C100.

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