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The Shopping List rummages through Smith’s latest bundle of insider city tips to highlight lesser-known shopping destinations and bring you the low-down on where and what to buy. First up: a short stay in Washington DC.
Washington DC might not shine as brightly on a fashionista’s radar as it does on the geopolitical map, but make [...]
As temperatures drop, big cities start decking the halls and donning their best holiday garb – so should you. Fall over yourselves to pick up our superhot city-break packing tips, whether you’re headed to the Cotswolds for a cosy Autumn escape or shopping on the Champs-Elysées…
As always, Style Monitor aims to please: these packing suggestions [...]
As you hopefully know by now, our anonymous reviewers stay incognito with their significant others then spill the secrets of their stay. Here, we introduce you to another member of the Mr & Mrs Smith family, designer Martha Freud…
Martha Freud visited an arty hotel in Versilia, Tuscany for us with her actual Mr Smith – director, [...]
Oh, how we like to spoil you. We’ve been skipping around the globe to bring you a cherry-picked collection of stylish new stays…
Brush up on your Spanish lessons as we say hola to two scorching hot havens in Barcelona. Edgy Ohla Hotel (pictured left) radiates classic Catalan cool, and flaunts a rooftop pool and two [...]
After a week of frantic texting, tweeting, emailing, tweeting, checking Facebook and then tweeting again, maybe what we need is to get away from all those glaring LCD screens and remember what life was like back in the good old days. The ivy-clad Blantyre in Massachusetts would be a welcome escape, with its candlelit dining [...]
Scope Art Show hits Miami 29 November–4 December, with 80 international galleries in Wynwood Arts District (last year featured Alexia Goethe, Catherine Clark and Flatland Gallery), flaunting contemporary works by the scene’s stars.
CHOKRA’s work (above) will be creating the opening-night performance
pictured: Al-Mtsaalh Haal photographed by Hronn Axelsdottir
To celebrate, we’ve secured best available rates [...]
Here are recipes from our hotel-hunting in the Blue Ridge Mountains: namely care of one of its best-kept secrets, a pastoral estate called Primland in the Meadows of Dan, Virginia…
This is a land where wild turkeys roam free, stargazers ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ from the observatory and where sybarites can spa themselves silly. While we [...]
With Bali still revelling in dry-season sun, it’s a smart time to sample the tropical delights of this culture-rich Indonesian island. For a rustic retreat in the arty town of Ubud, escape to The Chedi Club Tanah Gajah, one of our romantic, hand-picked boutique hotels in Bali.
Style Indigenous opulence
Setting Endless paddies, misty mountains
Why now? Smith [...]
From the first mesmerising haka – the Maori war dance that heralds the start of any game by the All Blacks – Rugby World Cup 2011, hosted by New Zealand, should have sports fans gripped. Running from 9 September, it’ll bring together rugby’s global heavyweights, with hotly anticipated clashes in the pool stages between England [...]
We’re no slouches when it comes to seeking out the world’s most special stays, as you know, and this September sees lots of extra-fizz added to the cocktail of hotels we’re always so lovingly mixing…
Head-over-heels for Paris as ever, get your thrills from four new city slickers in the capital of romance: Le Royal Monceau [...]
