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
When we decided it was time for an exclusively Antipodean guidebook to add to our ever-expanding library for stylish globetrotters, our first port of call was acclaimed Australian photographer Earl Carter (right). Melbourne-based Earl has roamed the world shooting hotel, food and interiors pictures for A-list magazines and books, so who better to quiz for [...]
Polished marble, pristine monochrome fabrics, striking modern art… So far, so glamorous and grown-up, right? Parents, seeking style, be assured: The Surrey is as sophisticated as Manhattan luxury hotels get – but lucky for those with little ones, this Upper East Side establishment is also as family-friendly as it is fabulous.
A skip from Central Park, [...]
Newport, Rhode Island may be small but its shores are packed with attractions. We fell under its spell on a hotel-finding road trip last month, and with two Smith-approved boutique hotels in Newport, you’re sure to be lured to its shores, too…
Just a few hours’ drive from buzzy New York, this lighthouses-for-landmarks land is [...]
The post-wedding blues are rife at Smith HQ, but there’s still one more reason to celebrate: a whole host of new hotels for May. Don’t go packing those flags away just yet…
First up, we forayed into Portugal, combing the coast north to south in search of hotel-shaped hot cakes. Torres Vedras, north of Lisbon, brought [...]
Indie music, street food and speakeasies have tempted us to trial a Texan city-to-city road trip, so this month, we mosey to edgy Austin and historic San Antonio in the Lone Star State, where everything is bigger – the tunes, the tastes, the tales.
Austin is a city for the ears as much as the eyes. [...]
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…
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Earlier this week, Team Smith hotfooted it to New York’s Cooper Square Hotel – the edgy East Village stay looming over the Bowery – for lunch at the Trilby, its new Euro-style comfort-food eatery and bar.
Taking its name from the tiny titfer so beloved of Frank Sinatra (and countless Hoxton hipsters since), this laid-back lounge [...]
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’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 [...]
Sweet Cali high: Road trip itinerary #1 – Gourmandise your way through the great outdoors, from San Francisco’s colourful streets to Big Sur’s sweeping coastline, with pitstops for pampering spa time and exhilarating fresh-air fun…
