THE PEPIN PRESS - Art you can hold in your hands
The Pepin Press
Art you can hold in your hands
Works of art, historical patterns, illustrations and ornaments transferred onto paper you can write on, create with, paint, decorate and use to wrap gifts.
More than stationery
A brand built on a lifelong passion for art, imagery and book culture
The Pepin Press is an independent design publisher based in Amsterdam. For more than thirty years, it has been discovering, preserving and reinterpreting artistic motifs from different periods and cultures.
Brand story
From a graphic studio to an extensive visual archive
The Pepin Press grew out of a one-person graphic and book studio founded by Pepin van Roojen in Kuala Lumpur in 1988. The first title published under The Pepin Press name followed two years later.
Over the following decades, the brand built an extensive archive of books, historical prints, decorative art, textiles, fashion, ornaments and illustrations. Tens of thousands of motifs have been digitised, often carefully restored and reworked for contemporary use.
Today, Pepin and Anette van Roojen run the company with a small in-house team and a network of external collaborators. Every product is created under the brand’s direct design supervision.
From the archive into your hands
Every collection begins with an image
It may be a botanical illustration, a Japanese woodblock print, an Art Nouveau ornament, a historical map, a textile pattern or the work of a celebrated artist. The Pepin Press selects, refines and transfers the motif onto paper. You decide what happens next.
Discover the world of The Pepin Press
Five ways to bring art closer
Choose according to what you would like to create, use every day or give as a gift.
Stickers and decorative elements
Hundreds of artistic motifs for journaling, collage, letters, cards, gift wrapping and decorating everyday objects.
Explore stickers
Artist’s colouring books
Delicately pre-printed drawings inspired by art, nature and ornament. Finished sheets can be removed, given as gifts or displayed.
Browse colouring books
Decorative papers
For gift wrapping, collage, journaling, cards, decoration and framing.
Explore papers
Luxury writing sets
Coordinated papers, envelopes, cards and decorative elements brought together in one visual world.
Explore writing setsChoose your visual world
Art across periods and cultures
Explore the products by how you want to use them or by the motifs that speak to you.
Japan and Asia 
Masters of art 
Nature and botany 
Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism 
Historical patterns and ornaments Quality you can see and feel
Paper is more than a surface for an image
The Pepin Press products are created with close attention to detail, print quality and the choice of paper best suited to each particular use.
An artist’s colouring book requires a different paper from a letter, a sticker or a large-format sheet intended for gift wrapping and collage. The material is an essential part of the whole experience.
Inspiration
See what you can create
The Pepin Press paper does not have to remain inside a book. It can become original gift wrapping, a collage, a card, a journal page or a decoration.
Gift wrapping
Collage and journaling
Letters and cards
Painting and decoratingFind a motif you will want to keep
Or give it to someone who, like you, appreciates beautiful paper, art and the joy of creating.
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