Urban Matter is a home accessories & gift boutique at 4704 Virginia Ave (St Louis,MO) featuring local makers & artisans, curated treasures and made-by-hand goods. We also offer design services, custom lighting, house made leather goods and a unique indoor/outdoor event space.
Here's what's coming up @ Urban Matter
Annual sidewalk sale June 16
details to come....
details to come....
A little recent press:
Oh So Vivant blog: Two of our Favorite St. Louis Shower Venues
Alive Magazine: 10 Instagram Worthy Home Decor Shops in St Louis
Urban Matter
Head over to St. Louis’ Dutchtown neighborhood and pop into Urban Matter, where you’ll find a slew of curated home goods by local makers and artisans. The Instagram-worthy spot is housed in a cozy historic building, with shelves full of kitschy art prints, candles, ornate pottery and more. What’s even better? One of Urban Matter’s greeting cards by Bremelo Press recently found its way into the hands of Chelsea Handler … on Instagram!
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Head over to St. Louis’ Dutchtown neighborhood and pop into Urban Matter, where you’ll find a slew of curated home goods by local makers and artisans. The Instagram-worthy spot is housed in a cozy historic building, with shelves full of kitschy art prints, candles, ornate pottery and more. What’s even better? One of Urban Matter’s greeting cards by Bremelo Press recently found its way into the hands of Chelsea Handler … on Instagram!
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Riverfront Times: Chelsea Handler's Favorite Birthday Card Was Conceived in St. Louis
Posted By Sarah Fenske on Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:35 am
Chelsea Handler joking about how much she loves to drink is nothing new. But Chelsea Handler using the words of a St. Louis businesswoman to do so? That's worth noting.
Last Thursday, Handler posted a photo to Instagram of herself holding a birthday card. Seeing it, Mary Hennesy had an instant surge of recognition: It was one of her designs.
Hennesy, the co-owner of south city's Urban Matter (one of "40 Shops We Love" in the RFT's 2017 Shop Local issue), is herself not a card designer. However, she has an informal relationship with Lynda Sherman of Seattle-based Bremelo Press. A Seattle native herself, Hennesy doesn't just carry the cards Sherman prints on her letterpress; she also sends Sherman the occasional idea.
"An idea will come to me and I'll send it to her," she says. "We've collaborated a number of times." Their cards include a grammar-lover's gem ("Practice Safe Text. Use commas, and never miss a period") as well as this local favorite: "You know everybody .... You're the Kevin Bacon of St. Louis."
The card Handler was propping up in her post had come to Hennesy in a burst of inspiration. "I am woman, hear me pour," it reads, with the text sandwiched between a letter-press woman's head and a hand holding a glass of wine.
The card was apparently given to Handler by her friend Christine Symonds, a celebrity hairstylist. But while it's clear what attracted Symonds to the card, it's a bit more of a mystery as to where she bought it. Hennesy says Sherman's work is sold only in limited retail outlets — one of them, of course, being her own boutique on Virginia Avenue.
Is it possible someone with a Hollywood connection picked it up there? Hey, stranger things have happened. And certainly, if you want one of your own to send a wine-loving friend, you know just where to find it.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/artsblog/2018/03/05/chelsea-handlers-favorite-birthday-card-was-conceived-in-st-louis
Chelsea Handler joking about how much she loves to drink is nothing new. But Chelsea Handler using the words of a St. Louis businesswoman to do so? That's worth noting.
Last Thursday, Handler posted a photo to Instagram of herself holding a birthday card. Seeing it, Mary Hennesy had an instant surge of recognition: It was one of her designs.
Hennesy, the co-owner of south city's Urban Matter (one of "40 Shops We Love" in the RFT's 2017 Shop Local issue), is herself not a card designer. However, she has an informal relationship with Lynda Sherman of Seattle-based Bremelo Press. A Seattle native herself, Hennesy doesn't just carry the cards Sherman prints on her letterpress; she also sends Sherman the occasional idea.
"An idea will come to me and I'll send it to her," she says. "We've collaborated a number of times." Their cards include a grammar-lover's gem ("Practice Safe Text. Use commas, and never miss a period") as well as this local favorite: "You know everybody .... You're the Kevin Bacon of St. Louis."
The card Handler was propping up in her post had come to Hennesy in a burst of inspiration. "I am woman, hear me pour," it reads, with the text sandwiched between a letter-press woman's head and a hand holding a glass of wine.
The card was apparently given to Handler by her friend Christine Symonds, a celebrity hairstylist. But while it's clear what attracted Symonds to the card, it's a bit more of a mystery as to where she bought it. Hennesy says Sherman's work is sold only in limited retail outlets — one of them, of course, being her own boutique on Virginia Avenue.
Is it possible someone with a Hollywood connection picked it up there? Hey, stranger things have happened. And certainly, if you want one of your own to send a wine-loving friend, you know just where to find it.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/artsblog/2018/03/05/chelsea-handlers-favorite-birthday-card-was-conceived-in-st-louis
"Urban Matter is the kind of local store I can get behind: a shopping destination for the people, by the people.
It allows me to make an investment in the community I live in, and the community I live in to make an investment in me: as a consumer, spending money in the city to STAY in the city. And there just isn't any greater civic reward!
The artisanal, carefully curated, stylish, local goods at Urban Matter make it easy...To me, that's why Urban Matter matters."
-Jeet Chadha (customer)
Urban Matter is located at 4704 Virginia, St Louis Missouri 63111 * 314-456-6941 * mary.urbanmatter@gmail.com
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