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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 [...]
This week, we’re delighted to bring you a guest post from Julia Reed – the shopping guru, travel addict and creative director of luxury lifestyle site Taigan and its online magazine, Fetch. She truffles through the best of Stateside cities’ boutiques, food halls and artisan markets to bring back super-stylish address tips (and sometimes further [...]
Palm-fringed Penang may be Malaysia’s best known island escape, with a reputation for blissful beaches and mouth-watering multi-culti food, but did you know it’s also a stylish place for a spot of shopping, too?
Smith’s top tip is to make a beeline for fab little shopping enclave Armenian Street in bustling colonial capital Georgetown, where our [...]
It’s been a while since we visited Hong Kong so we’ve been refreshing our style radar ahead of a recon mission to track down some more Smith-style stays – keep your eyes peeled for some hot-off-the-presses Hong Kong hotel news. Meanwhile, Mr & Mrs Smith thought you’d appreciate a local shopping tip-off from vintage-dealer extraordinaire, [...]
Hurrah! Or should that be ‘très bien’ – we revisit the romantic-weekend capital of the world, with a peek at some more insider secrets from Paris, in the second Smith Travel Blog communiqué from Francophile femme and founder of Girls’ Guide to Paris, Doni Belau. Here, she reveals the Paris hidden away in its many [...]
Fancy some Mekong river weed? Super-hot chillies? Or the odd frog? Well, you’ve come to the right place if you hit Luang Prabang’s intriguing Morning Market, strung out daily between the Royal Palace Museum and Th Chao Phanya Kang street in the central old quarter. During a recent trip to this Unesco-listed town in northern Laos, we got up early to check out the [...]
As if a waterfront city that straddles two continents and brings together historic architecture, exotic dining and sensual spas needed more enticements, Istanbul has recently endowed itself with a number of must-go events, including the Turkish Grand Prix, musical extravaganzas both cutting-edge and classical, fashion weeks, book fairs and biennials. Adding yet another attraction to [...]
Next time you need a window-shopping hit, head for Surry Hills in Sydney: Crown Street shopping serves up a bijou blend of quirky homewares, cutting-edge fashion and fabulous vintage finds. Surry Hills is the stylish gals go-to shopping street, just a 5-minute ride from Sydney boutique hotel Medusa, smack-bang in the centre of Darlinghurt’s hip [...]
As one of Australia’s top interior stylists, vintage maven Lyn Gardener (right, with Jack) is kept on her toes running a gorgeous emporium in Albert Park, South Melbourne, a decorating business and a holiday home in our Smith & Friends collection. We asked Lyn to spare a few minutes to tell us about [...]
On a recent jaunt to the metal- and concrete-covered Hotel Straf in Milan, we fell in love with all manner of fripperies, and wished to trade in our current Mr Smith for a Milanese millionaire. Top of the shopping list (aside from Italian men) was a trip to Milan’s best glove shop for some luscious [...]
