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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Bringing your travels home is not just about snapping up souvenirs, it’s also about reworking ideas from the road – a colour palette, graphic pattern or tactile handmade object – to suit your style. Global nomads can find interiors inspiration anywhere, from a walk around a new town to museums, galleries, [...]
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Posted in Australia, Boutique hotels, Design, Destinations, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Travel tips, Uncategorized, books | No Comments »
Saturday, January 14th, 2012
Think you know your coffee? Tell us where to find the best coffee in Australia for your chance to win a copy of new book Coffee Trails by Toby Smith. Not only does this java master sport our favourite name, his cool cafés in Sydney and hip espresso bars in Melbourne make our mornings much [...]
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Posted in Australia, Eating & drinking, Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania, Uncategorized, books, competition | 7 Comments »
Friday, December 9th, 2011
Our suits and party frocks are back in the wardrobe, we’ve wiped the parmesan crumbs from our lips, the whisper-thin ham is MIA, and the prosecco bottles are empty. Yet the memory of our book-launch party for Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection – Italy lives on. (For those who weren’t there, you missed opera [...]
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Posted in Hotel of the Week, Italy, News, Travel guides, Tuscany, books | No Comments »
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Last night in London saw the soiree to launch our latest (and, we think, greatest) hotel guide: Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection – Italy. If you were there, thanks so much for coming (hopefully you enjoyed it as much as we did!). If you couldn’t make it, here’s what you missed…
B&B Italia threw open [...]
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Posted in Events, Italy, London, Mr & Mrs Smith, News, Press, Reviewers, Travel guides, Uncategorized, books, travel | 3 Comments »
Monday, November 14th, 2011
It’s amore: Mr & Mrs Smith’s love affair with Italy is official (ok, that by itself isn’t really ‘news’, but read on…). Our latest (and, may we modestly suggest, greatest) hotel guidebook brings you 32 hand-picked hotels in Italy, including traditional Puglian trulli, gorgeous guesthouses, spectacular lakeside villas, wonderful farmhouses and dazzling city-centre palazzos.
As ever, we show [...]
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Posted in Independent reviews, Italy, News, Press, Travel guides, Travel tips, Uncategorized, Worth getting out of bed for, books, travel | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Rufus Hound: funny man, stand-up guy and sporter of a mighty fine moustache. And now (drum roll, please) Smith hotel spy, too.
In the time-honoured tradition of a monthly blog post revealing our secret hotel reviewers (don’t be checking that monthly thing, now), we’d like you to meet another alumnus; this time, from the reviewer panel [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Independent reviews, Italy, Reviewers, South Tyrol, Travel guides, Travel tips, Uncategorized, books, travel | No Comments »