American director Sofia Coppola launches her publishing house called Important Flowers, after releasing a book called Sofia Coppola Archive 1999-2023. And the first planned works should delight many coffee tables.
For several years, the American director, actress, producer and screenwriter Sofia Coppola53, had remained discreet. But she has been in the news again for a little over a year. In fact, the artist presented a film, Priscillain January 2024. And in 2023, she released a book entitled Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023.
Sofia Coppola Archivea book rich in rare images covering the director’s entire career
The object, voluminous – 488 pages – and pink in color, has everything coffee table bookespecially since it exists in a version signed by the filmmaker, presented in a box set. Rich in unpublished images, the book takes us behind the scenes of the director’s films with a poetic universe, almost all of which have become cult. There are notably photos of Scarlett Johansson et Bill Murray In Lost in Translation (2003), d’Emma Watson In The Bling Ring (2013) and Kirsten Dunst In Virgin Suicides (1999) et Marie Antoinette (2006).
Never-before-seen photos of Scarlett Johansson and Kirsten Dunst
As the artist reveals Vogue American, the project was born during the pandemic (the first confinement, in 2020), when the filmmaker found boxes full of souvenirs such as drafts of scripts, moodboards or Polaroids taken on set.
The book, which presents itself as a scrapbook – the dream Pinterest account -, reveals, among other things, an interview with the director by the journalist Lynn Hirschbergan article from Vanity Fair who inspired The Bling Ring (2013), on which Sofia Coppola took notes, anecdotes about her films, letters addressed to Bill Murray and even an overview of the film Priscilla of Sofia Coppolawhich will be a biopic about Priscilla Presleythe ex-wife ofElvis Presley.
Important Flowers, the director’s publishing house
Previously, the director’s work had already been the subject of Books, among which are Sofia Coppola: Forever Young, Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure, The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: FashionCulture, Celebrity, Set Pictures. Behind the Scenes with Sofia Coppola d’Andrew Durham or even the very rare Virgin Suicides Photobook. But many of them were only published in Japan, and can fetch astronomical sums on the web today.
More good news. Sofia Coppola has decided to launch her own publishing house: Important Flowersfrom the Mack distributor. Several books are already planned: one is dedicated to the film The Virgin Suicidesanother title Chanel haute couture and named diaries The Important Flowers Planner for the years 2025 and 2026 (on which you can note the films to see). Available for pre-order on the Mack Books website, they will all make perfect Christmas gifts.
Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023 (2023), available on the website of Mack Books.
