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Word-of-mouth seems to be doing fine.Ĭustomers fill the store and then go and patronize other businesses in the town - an effect which could be called the Two Button bounce.
"This building is an homage to Julia Roberts," Nunes joked.Įach year, the store closes in January and February, so that Nunes and Gilbert can travel to find more of what they call "treasure." Two Buttons does not have a listed phone number, because the couple does not want to be deluged with calls. The new Two Buttons opened in October 2009. They dedicated almost half of the space to the shop and then spent months renovating it. To buy it, they used some of the proceeds from the "Eat, Pray, Love" movie, which was set to debut the following year. Undaunted by the calamity, the couple decided to purchase a 16,000-square-foot warehouse, also in Frenchtown.
"Actually, sometimes we have gotten by on only one button," Gilbert wrote on the shop's website.Ī fire elsewhere in the building caused the original store to close in early 2009. The idea for the name Two Buttons came after a priest in Laos told the couple that their love for life was so great that they needed nothing more than two buttons in their pockets to get by. The book, which is about Gilbert's search for love and spiritual fulfillment as she travels abroad, has more than 10 million copies in print, according to her website. That all changed in 2006 when her memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" was published and landed on the New York Times best seller list. Photo gallery: Celebrities you didn't know were entrepreneurs.įive years ago, Elizabeth Gilbert was a respected journalist and author but certainly not a household name.
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