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
Australia’s events guru extraordinaire David Grant has been the invisible hand behind eight Olympic Games and some of the sexiest parties from Sydney to New York. With over 25 years experience in drumming up jaw-dropping events for media players and luxury brands such as Hermès and Calvin Klein, David knows a thing or two about [...]
Today’s hotel of the week – the Dylan – claims the coveted spot with hands-down-the-best-reason ever: a Michelin-starred dining boat. Oh yes.
As you may already know, this historic theatre-cum-hospice and former Anouska Hempel temple on Keizersgracht in Amsterdam has an acclaimed restaurant, Vinkeles (not to mention beautifully designed bedrooms, a fleet of Johnny Loco bicycles [...]
Been a bit busy? Sunshine giving you itchy feet? Getting that sinking ‘Oh no, I forgot to book a holiday’ feeling and now hunting for last-minute hotel getaways? Help is at hand: here’s a top-10 hotlist of stylish summer destinations from London and Paris (below) to Dublin with late availability and last-minute offers to help you plan the [...]
Our resident TuneSmith Rob Wood has his head in the clouds this month, and come over all ‘chillwave’ and’ nu-folk’. Whatever you call them, though, they’re still great tunes…
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Within and Without by Washed Out
When? On the runway
Why? It’s perfect soundtrack for jetting off for adventure
Forget any debate about the merits of [...]
With the State of Design Festival currently serving up a stylish smorgasbord of events in Melbourne until 31 July, we’re celebrating the best design stores in town. Our top tip for a one-stop shop is fast-gentrifying Gertrude Street in inner-city north’s grunge-cool Fitzroy, the ideal stamping ground for local or visiting design fans alike. You’ll [...]
Raining, raining – still raining. Oh well: getting your fill at a top restaurant in London is the way to transform summer in the city from so-so to sizzling. Seeing as, these days, Bethnal Green seems to be the centre of London’s universe, we’ve had a snoop around its latest hotspot, Viajante’s low-key sister bistro [...]
The vogue for gorgeous wallpaper, pattern and print in boutique hotels – and homes – throughout the world owes a lot to the posthumous revival of Australian talent Florence Broadhurst’s dreamy designs. New Zealand-born, Sydney-based husband-and-wife team David and Helen Lennie (left) of Signature Prints can take credit for putting Florence firmly back on the [...]
When we launched our debut collection of Smith boutique hotels in Sri Lanka recently, one name kept coming up. That of the country’s most famous architect, Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003). We’ve rounded up some of the world’s best boutique hotel designers before, but in no other place that Smith has delved for hotel gold, has one [...]
This month, Rob our resident TuneSmith, has come over all nostalgic, soundtracking high summer with a band that references Nineties greats and taking his turntable back to 1962 to relive the pioneering jazz sounds of Ray Charles…
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Buffalo by The Phoenix Foundation
When? You need an indie fix
Why? It’s all your favourites rolled [...]
Bean there, done that? You haven’t earned your caffeinated stripes until you’ve toured Melbourne’s best cafés. Like Seattle and Milan, this is a city obsessed with sourcing the perfect cup of coffee, with baristas roasting, grinding, blending, brewing and pouring as if their beards depended on it (the Victorian gent-meets-outlaw-Ned Kelly look is big here [...]
