New in the Matters of Style Store- Chic Vintage Books!

Everyone says you can't judge a book by its cover...but we beg to differ in the case of these impeccably chic vintage coffee table books. Yes, they are all great reads, and the pictures and illustrations in them are stunning, but the added bonus of these highly collectible books is that they also look lovely even when you're not reading them thanks to their beautifully illustrated dust jackets. For a more detailed description of each book's contents and condition, please view the store listing. Only one of each available!

The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places by Cecil Beaton 

The Snob Spotters Guide by Philippe Jullian

 

Goodbye Picasso by David Douglas Duncan

On the Tip of My Tongue by Iles Brody

 

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Matters of Style Store Coupon Code and Giveaway Winner!

As a special thank you to the wonderful response to our lamp giveaway, we are offering a 20% discount of all items in the Matters of Style Store (except books). Coupon is good today through Friday, December 11th. Enter coupon code MOS20 at checkout and the discount will be automatically calculated. Don't forget we can gift wrap and ship directly to your gift recipient to save you time and money! Unfortunately we could only pick one giveaway winner, but if you have your eye on a lamp or another fabulous item from our store, now is the time to snap it up and get 20% off!

Now for the giveaway! We've consulted random.org and counted only one entry per person, and the winner of the Medium Geode Lamp from the Matters of Style Store (or $135 towards the lamp of her choice) is comment #21:

Elise!

Elise said- "Love the lamps, but my favorite item is the antique alabaster bookends. I think my parents had something similar when I was a child and seeing them makes me happy!"

Congratulations, Elise! Please shoot us an email at mattersofstyle@gmail.com so we can be in touch about your lamp!

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New in the Matters of Style Store

Be sure to browse the Matters of Style Store for fabulous one of a kind home accessories...Christmas is coming- have you checked everyone off your gift list yet? We can gift wrap and ship directly to your gift recipient, saving you quite a bit of time and hassle!



A steal of a deal- gorgeous antique gold tole lamp, $48

 



Back by popular demand, a gorgeous natural giant clam shell, $34.

 

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MoS Store Giveaway: Custom Geode Lamp

In honor of our new and re-designed Matters of Style Store, we are thrilled to offer our first MoS Store giveaway! Today we are thrilled to offer a Medium Geode Lamp (a $125 value) to one lucky reader who enters our giveaway (or the winner may use a $125 credit towards the purchase of any other mineral lamp on the site)! We'll randomly draw the winner on Tuesday, December 8th.

To enter the giveaway, all you need to do is 1) peruse the Matters of Style Store and leave us a comment on this post telling us your favorite item in the store, and 2) share this giveaway with some of your friends or on your blog.

Thank you for shopping at the Matters of Style Store, and good luck on the giveaway!

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Re-Introducing the Matters of Style Store

Today we are proud as peacocks to turn your attention to our newly redesigned Matters of Style Store and launch our newest giveaway to boot! 

As you may recall, a few weeks ago we introduced our store, but shortly thereafter took a quick hiatus to make sure it was technologically up to snuff. Now, thanks to the assistance of our wonderful, miracle-working friend at Ventura Pages, we're back and we're better than ever. If you ever need website assistance (be it with a store, a business website, a law firm website, you name it) we highly recommend contacting Ventura Pages and letting them work their magic for you.

Let's take a quick spin around our store and introduce you to some of our favorite things...you probably already know that we've been able to get our hands on a few copies of I Married Adventure and even fewer copies of Four Years in Paradise. We currently have one of each in the store, get them while they last!

Matters of Style Photo

As our blog readers know, we love to shop. No store is too big, too small, too crowded, too remote, or too random for us! We started Matters of Style Store in order to keep having fun finding wonderful items that we could pass along to our stylish readers. In our store you'll find some of our favorite treasures we've recently picked up on our excursions, like this handsome ceramic dog.

We are currently out of stock of giant clam shells, but email us if you are interested and we can get one for you!

How to-die-for are these alabaster horse head bookends? So very Hollywood regency.

Brass is back, baby, and these antique pagoda lamps from occupied Japan fit the bill quite nicely.

As you may know, the MoS girls are mildly obsessed with mineral accents for the home. From geode bookends to amethyst votives, we love adding a touch of the natural world to most any room in the house. 

We searched high and low for mineral lamps like the ones below, but came up discouraged by the four figure pricetags on most mineral lamps in the marketplace. This inspired us to create our very own line of chic table lamps made of genuine minerals- only available in the Matters of Style Store!

  

Chad Eisner, Nate Berkus

Anthropologie Rock Crystal Lamp, $2,200; Barrie Benson Room

If you like the chunky lamp in the Barrie Benson photo above, you'll love our chunky Green Quartz Lamp.

 

If you like this Agate Slab Lamp, $1,350, from 1st Dibs, or this faux Rock Table Lamp from West Elm (sold out!)...

 

Then try our geode lamps- they come in medium and large sizes. Each geode is unique, and rests atop a polished lucite base with a beveled top. Below, the Large Geode Lamp.

The Medium Geode Lamp is a little more delicate- perfect for a bedside table.

Finally, if you like these regal amethyst lamps (left, Amethyst Lamp, $3,350, 1st Dibs; right, Tall Amethyst Table Lamp, $1,930 from Chic Living LA)...

You'll love our irresistibly sparkley Amethsyst Lamp, shown below.

 

Take a spin around the MoS store and let us know what you think! Is there anything you'd like to see that's not there? Anything we could be doing better? Let us know!

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Osa Strikes Again!

We couldn't help but notice that everyone's favorite "it book" popped up in this month's House Beautiful in Jill Brinson's cottage home in Atlanta.

If you're looking for your very own copy of I Married Adventure, you can find it here in our newly revamped Matters of Style store! We only have 2 available!

Oh, and we're also offering a copy of its even harder-to-find sequel, Four Years in Paradise, with the impossibly chic giraffe print cover. IMA and FYIP- they go together like peas and carrots!

More on our newly revamped store next week!

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Grand Opening: The Matters of Style Store!

As most of our readers know, we love nothing more than a great home decor or fashion find!  It invokes this sense of excitement in us that can really be described as a giddiness.  Though we both have fulltime jobs, rarely a week passes when we haven't hit at least one estate sale or antique market.  Mixing antiques with newer pieces keeps a space interesting and inspiring.  To us, there is not much worse than a room that looks like it is straight out of a Pottery Barn catalog.  However, as much as we love "the hunt", we we simply can't keep every fantastic find for ourselves!  There is only so much we can work into our existing homes or store in our attics for "one day..." 

Which brings us to our newest venture, the Matters of Style Store!

http://www.mattersofstylestore.com

Our store has its own address, so please bookmark it and become a follower so you won't miss the newest additions. We'll be updating inventory on a regular basis, so check back often, and if there's something you're in the market for, drop us a line and let us know.

Vintage Ceramic Dog and Vintage "I Married Aventure"- both in our store!

In our store you'll find a fantastic assortment of hand-selected home accessories and furniture that will help you add that special finishing touch to a room. Add some whimsy to your bookshelf...shine some light on your desk...cover up a bare wall...it's all in our store! We are also excited to showcase our very own custom line of mineral lamps, the perfect organic touch for any room at a fraction of the cost of those you'll find on the marketplace now.

Take a peek at our custom Mineral Lamps!

Don't worry, our blog isn't going anywhere! But as we launch this newest venture, we want to thank each and every person that reads Matters of Style. When we started blogging we kept our fingers crossed in hopes that maybe our moms and our best friends would remember to follow along. Eight months later, we are amazed that thousands of people from all over the world read our blog every day, and we appreciate all of the the wonderful and witty comments and emails we receive from our readers. We love being part of a worldwide community that appreciates and celebrates sophisticated style and individuality, be it in your home or in your wardrobe. We hope you enjoy our store and can't wait to hear what you think about it.

Alabaster Horse Head Bookends- and much more- in our store!




Store side note: the store website is a little slow to load- we are currently working on getting this fixed! In the meantime please be patient- it is worth the wait!

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Judging A Book By Its Cover

We've all heard that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.  But recently, we have found ourselves doing so more and more!

Take for instance, Martin and Osa Johnson's I Married Adventure.  This book's beautiful faux bois cover makes it a focal point of any room. 

Eddie Ross styles I Married Adventure, as seen in Lonny's debut issue.   We love how he added a lucite display box with a gold sea urchin!

On top of a stack of Goyard luggage, Elizabeth Bauer Design.

Image via Stylecourt, who is way ahead of her time and posted here about the Johnson books back in 2007!

On a MoS coffee table...

Locating a copy of this fabulous faux bois version of I Married Adventure is no small feat!  However, you can find it at the MoS store right here! 

And I Married Adventure's Sequel, Four Years in Paradise, with its stunning giraffe cover:

This book is even more difficult to find than I Married Adventure.  We would love a set of both books!

Another group of favorites that has been popping up all over the place is Coralie Bickford-Smith's set of Penguin Classics.  Her cover illustrations use such fabulous colors and patterns that they add life to some of the classics we haven't read since AP Lit...  I ordered them a while back from Canada but am thrilled to see that they are now available in the US, just in time for the holidays!

Available in the Matters of Style Store at Amazon for $13.60 each!

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Eyre

Pride and Prejudice

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wuthering Heights

Great Expectations

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Cranford

Part of the set, styled on a MoS desk, between antique alabaster horsehead bookends available here. 

Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities has been a favorite of designers for quite a while now.  Yes, maybe it has become a bit ubiquitous, but we have to admit we still love it!

Patricia Gray Interiors

BD Jeffries, one of my favorite local shops, image via Stylecourt

Tobi Fairley for Traditional Home

The Proust Questionnaire has been a favorite for years.  But we love Assouline's pink leather bound version,  which focuses on style questions for trendsetters from Alber Elbaz to DVF to Valentino. 

Have you ever bought a book because it had a beautiful cover?  Be honest!

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