Get the low-down from the original style-seekers' latest good-time hunting expeditions, find destination inspiration and insider tips from around the world. Welcome to the official Smith blog: we hope you enjoy your stay
San Lorenzo Mountain Lodge, a blissfully beautiful self-catering chalet in the glorious Dolomites, South Tyrol, is a property that made our eyes widen and our hearts skip a beat. The lodge’s wonderful owners, Stefano and Giorgia, both abandoned high-flying careers in the fashion industry to open up their dream home to discerning guests. The result [...]
Despite our recent April Fool’s fun, David Cameron won’t be assisting with subsidised dirty weekends and you can’t really gatecrash Wills and Kate’s honeymoon, but you can still plan your own. For inspiration, look no further that our latest bunch of heavenly hideaways, from Newport in Rhode Island to Italy’s golden, glam Riviera di Levante… [...]
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, [...]
Secret Shopper Mary Portas is currently appearing on small screens nationwide, doing good deeds on behalf of consumers everywhere with her undercover exposés and mission to reform shoddy sales practices. The Queen of Shops has also been doing good deeds on behalf of Mr & Mrs Smiths everywhere, undertaking an anonymous review of Petra Segreta [...]
We’ve been on the road again this month, turning stones the land over to report back with a handful of new hotels. Ready to plan that holiday? You soon will be… First up, in Italy, we hit the Amalfi Coast: allow us to introduce Capo la Gala (left), an exclusive nautical retreat on the Bay [...]
We’ve got another cherry-picked handful of hotels for you this month, fresh from recent hideaway hunting in Italy, America and Shakespeare’s birthplace… Lately, we’ve been busying ourselves in Italy, for numerous reasons (truffle picking, pasta slurping, art collecting), but chiefly in the good, honest name of finding the land’s best hotels. Recent additions include Palazzo [...]
We took to our Vespas this month and whizzed around Italy’s sun-baked shores, sparkling lagoons and historic cities to bring you some hot new Italian hotels. Elsewhere, we took detours both near and far-flung to France, Spain, Laos and Australia, all in the name of good hotel hunting… In Venice, we went to check out [...]
Following up on our interview with Amanda Wakeley earlier this year (not to mention her chic weekend packing tips post), we’ve delved further into her non-stop fashion life to bring you all the best tips from her international travels. Here, the OBE-bestowed British fashion designer, brides’ best friend and all-round wonderwoman reveals the most stylish [...]
This month, we crossed the, er, two corners of the globe to see what’s going on hotel-wise down in Europe and the Americas… On the Jersey Shore, we found Bungalow Hotel, a stylish surf house seconds from the sea, and just an hour out of Manhattan. In San Francisco, we crossed the Golden Gate to [...]
There are times when less just simply isn’t more. Bored by minimalism and modernity, we’re hankering after the kind of extravagance that would make a maharajah blush. We’re talking grand beds with marshmallow-plump bedspreads and squashy silk cushions, lofty ceilings with ornate frescoes, walls bedecked with paintings of stirring scenes and haughty miens and bathrooms [...]
