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
So far, summer 2009 has lacked sunshine in every sense. We’ve seen a generous onslaught of rain, we’ve lost the King of Pop and a perfectly coiffed Charlie’s Angel and the sound of someone sneezing on a tube is enough to send swine-flu-dreading commuters scuttling for cover. Our medicinal mood-booster? Ice-cream. Pure and simple. What [...]
It’s fun playing tourist in your hometown – especially when the sun is out. No, I don’t for a moment mean queuing up at Madame Tussaud’s (what is with that obsession for waxworks when there are so many better things to do in London?), let alone hitting senses-assaulting Piccadilly Circus. I am talking about seeing [...]
All aboard the eccentric carriage of culinary and cocktail curiosities making its way across the UK courtesy of Hendrick’s. Its bonkers bar-cum-dining room rolled into Edinburgh today until Sunday; Manchester, 30 July–2 August; London, 1–4 October. No, we haven’t been drinking – not today at any rate…
Ever imagined munching aphrodisiac lavender marshmallows? Or rose bush [...]
A recent straw poll among my female friends on the topic of ‘what’s most attractive in a man’ (taken for professional not personal reasons, honest) yielded some surprising results. A GSOH and a way with shelving may not be as essential as I had been led to believe – the three most desirable male characteristics [...]
If you’re out and about in London town this weekend, and, even better, staying in Kit Kemp’s elegant and exuberant Charlotte Street Hotel, then may we politely suggest you lug your shapely booty over to the second Charlotte Street Festival?
On Saturday, the famed Fitzrovia thoroughfare is closing off to traffic and opening up to style-savvy [...]
A new eco deco company paints London green, just in time for World Environment Day
London On Film Festival 2009 launches this June at the Lexi Cinema in NW10, as part of the Mayor’s Story of London Festival.
From Tuesday 16 to Sunday 21 June Chamberlayne Road will give La Croisette a run for its money with film, debate, art, music and live performances for audiences of all ages, including screenings [...]
Mr & Mrs Smith love sniffing out the world’s best places to stay and play, and part of our good-time-hunting agenda is to find the parks, picnic spots and on-the-pulse shops that only your best friend would tell you about.
So, in the spirit of sharing, we tracked down expert perfumer Linda Pilkington to find [...]
It’s been, you might say, a busy week.
Last weekend, Mr & Mrs Smith cut the proverbial ribbon on their latest acquisition. Not a hotel for once, but a gleaming new office in Melbourne. From its marbled halls*, our all-singing, occasionally dancing Australian team will be hunting down the most glamorous, most homely, and most all-out [...]
Some of London’s best gardens appear for just five days a year – at the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show, kicking off this year on Tuesday 19 May. Green-fingered royals and celebs mingle with young-fogey hipsters rediscovering home-grown gardening trends, there’s inspiration and planting plans for your own patch of turf, and champagne and [...]
