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Stuffed Botswanian hyena, early-1900s chalkware carnival figurine or limited-edition LP with your latte, ma’am?
Brooklyn’s Black Gold is a dark horse on BoCoCa’s sunny, stroller-packed main strip. This café in New York is a coffee shop cum cornucopia of carefully curated curios, perfectly out of place in the leafy, gentrified neighbourhood where Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, [...]
We can’t think of anyone we’d rather hang out with than chef Stefano Manfredi: not only is he an Italian food genius, writer of inspiring cookbooks, columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, Mr & Mrs Smith reviewer and maker of his own superior coffee brand, he’s also just the kinda guy you’d like to have [...]
We love food. We love wine (especially on Fridays). We love Napa Valley. Therefore, it brings us great boozy, foodie pleasure to introduce this week’s hotel heart-throb: the vineyard-graced Calistoga Ranch, California…
Style Ravishing ranch retreat
Setting Cosy Californian canyon
Why this week? In March, Napa Valley is a painter’s paradise: the trees are laden with pink and [...]
Architects in Australia have been busy over the last few years, plotting and planning some of the latest stars of our Smith & Friends stylish self-catering collection. We’re suckers for knock-out structures (especially when they come with dreamy, pared-down interiors), so here’s a handful of our new favourites, from the Sunshine Coast to Tasmania…
THE SEIDLER [...]
With the long-weekend season nearly upon us, and by way of acknowledging the fashion grand tour that is the ’shows’ this month, we bring you spring’s hottest weekend-wardrobe essentials, whether you’re frolicking in Florence, pirouetting in Paris or nipping off to New York.
These packing suggestions should ensure there’s a little less to worry about; [...]
KARNEVAL
When? Although carnival season officially begins at 11.11am on 11 November, not much happens until 6 January, and the high point of revelry isn’t reached until Rosenmontag, the day before Shrove Tuesday, after which normal service resumes.
Where? All over Germany, but festivities are more madcap around Cologne, Düsseldorf, Munich and the Rhineland towns. The [...]
We’re always on the hunt for new hotels to be the apples of our eyes, and this month is no different. Allow us to introduce our crop of corkers for March…
We’ve been foraging in Italy once again, hand-picking Ca’ P’a – Casa Privata, a boho bolthole in Praiano on the Amalfi Coast. In Tuscany, we [...]
And the winner is… The King’s Speech. No, not really. Our award ceremony is going against the tide this week, and giving the prize not to a moving British masterpiece starring Colin Firth, but to Kapsaliana Village Hotel, a sun-baked settlement in rural Crete…
Style Verdant village
Setting Amid the olive groves
Why this week? Smith members travelling [...]
As we march into springtime (geddit?), our trusty TuneSmith Rob Wood has been mixing with collaborators…
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
We’re New Here
by Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX
When? You want to know what 2011 will sound like
Why? This is music that remixes the zeitgeist
Yikes! Stop what you are doing. Turn the gadgets off. Lock [...]
Rookeries ain’t what they used to be. Take Charles Dickens’ words on the subject: ‘We will make for Drury Lane, through the narrow streets and dirty courts which divide it from Oxford Street, and that spot adjoining the brewery at the bottom of Tottenham Court Road, known to the initiated as the ‘Rookery’. The filthy [...]
