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
Having disgraced ourselves at last week’s Call My Bluff-style wine challenge, we’re determined to reclaim our oenophilic crown and return to cultural kingliness à la Smith. So we’re leaving London behind this week and heading south to chase those fading summer rays in Provence, where a distinct lull in the air can only mean that [...]
The beautiful hotels, all those lovely flowers, the chance to acceptably don a frilly fascinator… we do love a good wedding at Smith. So allow us to introduce our favourite new partner, The Big Event (and its director, Rosie) – a stylish service dedicated to wedding and event planning in central Italy where Smith members [...]
Last night, Mrs Smith dreamed of spices and sultans, of honeyed pastries and perfumed harems, of hammams, baklava and Byzantine domes. In obedience to her every desire, this week we’re Bosphorus-bound, lusting after a wave-lapped, gracious and grand ex-pasha’s mansion in mysterious Istanbul, Turkey.
Style: Contemporary Ottoman
Setting: Banks of the Bosphorus
Why this week?
Every day, our dream [...]
It all began with a fabulous Portuguese farmhouse back in July. We’ve since raved about an A-list friendly LA villa, a cosy Norfolk cottage and a traditional Thames-side inn. But we just can’t keep our hotel-loving minds still and now we’re excited about — drum roll, please — a boutique guesthouse in the Cotswolds’ capital, [...]
Love, honesty, respect and… wine. All key ingredients for a long and happy marriage. Which is why it’s not a bad idea to start as you mean to go on with a wedding list composed of malbecs and merlots. No crystal ornaments, no stainless steel, no towel-set systems, just a ready-made cellar that would make [...]
Forget less-than-cool Eighties-style package holidays to Magaluf, our new luxury stays in Mallorca are HOT. As well as having a melange of Mallorcan boutique hotels joining our online collection soon, we’ve just added a selection of stylish self-catering holiday houses to Smith & Friends. Brace yourself for privacy, individuality and style galore, and then feast [...]
This week, we will mostly be writing about romantic hotels. Like the one pictured: Clos du Léthé, in Southern France’s gorgeous Languedoc region.
Of course, here at Mr & Mrs Smith, our whole raison d’être is romantic weekends away, but even so, some hotels are, you know, more romantic than others. So we’ll do our best [...]
Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday this year – and romantic hotels are filling up fast… so we’ve brought you our insider guide to the perfect weekend-away hotels that will wow your wooer, knock their socks off and generally tick all the right boxes - and crucially, they still have some availability (although, obviously, it [...]
Just before Christmas, James and I set sail on a hotel-hunting trip to the Caribbean, where we were completely bowled over by one hotel in particular – a honeymoon-perfect mountainside hideaway on St Lucia with just 29 rooms, which we’ll be adding to the Smith collection post-haste.
Last week, we caught up with one of the team members behind director Francis Ford Coppola’s luxury eco-escape, Blancaneaux Lodge, a collection of cabanas in the majestic jungle-clad mountains. Here you can go on jaguar-tracking treks, spy hummingbirds hovering over rare orchids, explore the extensive Mayan ruins or play spot the Apocalypse Now prop – [...]
