page_title: Andreas Papadakis
section_title: Papadakis Publisher and Restoration Projects
hierarchical_section_title: Andreas Papadakis / Papadakis Publisher and Restoration Projects
caption_attribution_description: English: The architect's drawing of Church Island House in Staines, by Dr. Basil Al Bayati
context_page_description: Andreas Constantine Papadakis FLS was a Cypriot-born British academic, entrepreneur and leading figure in the field of architectural publishing. He opened the Academy Bookshop in Holland Street, Kensington in 1964 and moved into publishing as Academy Editions in 1968. From then until 1990, when he sold the company to VCH Germany he published more than a thousand titles mainly on art, architecture and the decorative arts. He was the first to publish many international architects in the 'Architectural Monographs No...' series, which included Alvar Aalto, Michael Graves, Edwin Lutyens, John Soane, Terry Farrell, Richard Rogers, Mies van der Rohe, Hassan Fathy, Tadao Ando, Daniel Libeskind, etc.; and Victor Arwas’s Art Deco, first published in 1980 remains the standard work on the subject.
context_section_description: In 1997, Papadakis founded a new publishing house, Papadakis Publisher, with his daughter Alexandra. In addition to books on architecture and the decorative arts the company broadened its scope to include books on natural science, including the acclaimed series Pollen, Seeds and Fruit in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, leading to his election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Pollen and Seeds were awarded a joint gold medal by the American Independent Publishers’ Association in 2006 as Outstanding Books of the Year, and his first science book Why the Lion Grew its Mane was long-listed by the Royal Society in 2007.
  As Papadakis’s business ventures were increasingly successful, he purchased several properties for restoration, including the medieval Kilbees Farm in Winkfield, Berkshire, 107 Park Street and 9 Charles Street, both in Mayfair, London, 16 Grosvenor Place in Belgravia, and Dauntsey Park House in Wiltshire, although the latter project ended in 2005 when planning permission was refused. 
  In 1987 Papadakis bought Church Island in the Thames and commissioned Dr. Basil Al Bayati, an architect whose books 'Architect' and 'Recent Works' he had published, to design a house for him.
  “For his luxury mansion on his Greek-island-in-the-Thames, the great man chose not Michael Graves, one of the deconstructivists or even CZWG, but pragmatic classicist Basil Al Bayati, whom he instructed to design a country house in the English turn-of-the-century manner.”  The plan of the house is based on multiple units of structural geometrical forms and utilises extensive brickwork in a postmodern, art & craft style.  It was “designed in a vernacular manner, using building materials similar to those traditionally used in the area.”
  
  In 1988, Church Island House was exhibited at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt in an exhibition titled The Architecture of Pluralism that included work by James Gowan, Terry Farrell, Charles Jencks and some twenty other internationally recognised architects.
  In 2007 he purchased Monkey Island Hotel in Bray, Berkshire but died a few months afterwards. Alexandra Papadakis continued to run the hotel until it was sold in 2015.
caption: Church Island House in the Thames
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