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Design Our Blog – Wordpress Competition Winner 2008-07-21 05:34:47 Drum roll, please… we at Smith HQ are delighted to announce that Jason Badrock is the winner of Mr & Mrs Smith’s ‘Design our Blog’ Wordpress
Theme Competition.
A freelance designer, Jason managed to incorporate Smith’s unique style and brand values into a new Wordpress blog-theme design, without simply copying our main website.
We all loved his [...]
Superior coffee #2: the daily grind 2008-07-17 09:48:18 Today we bring you more insights on superior coffee from NY-based coffee-oracle Oliver Schwaner-Albright. To distract ourselves from the Sisyphian nightmare that is trying to find a coffee good enough to make our daily commute tolerable (mission: impossible, unless you can make a lengthy detour to Monmouth, purveyor of the best coffee in London, according [...] Read more:Superior
Superior coffee: a Q&A with Oliver 2008-07-14 10:19:27 As promised, we’ve been quizzing top New York Times coffee blogger Oliver
Schwaner-Albright about all things brown and beautiful (that doesn’t sound quite right, but you get the gist of what I’m trying to say!), as part of our quest to track down the Best coffee in London.
Tam - who is the real-life Mrs Smith, [...] Read more:Superior
Best coffee in London? 2008-07-11 09:49:45 After yet another maddening on-the-way-to-work wait for a gritty, feeble, bitter café latte, I’ve been doing some pondering forward-slash getting angry.
(A) Why is it that so many people who work in cafés in London have absolutely zero interest in actually serving you any coffee? This morning I pretty much had to jump up and down [...]
Tamara’s New York blog for Cookie 2008-07-09 10:36:58 While I was off on the Smith NYC trip last month, online parenting mag Cookie
asked me whether I’d pen a piece for their new travel blog on my experiences attempting to get the best of Manhattan with a hard-to-please one-year-old in tow.
I did, talking about some of the best child-friendly activities and restaurants in [...] Read more:New York
Mr & Mrs Smith’s Mexican adventure 2008-07-08 11:13:08 Well, it’s been a hectic month, and there were a few moments of not-quite-panic here at Smith
HQ as deadlines loomed, meetings overran, and, well, it started raining a lot, but we’re utterly delighted to bring you our new Mexico collection.
We despatched Smith’s trusty hotel bloodhounds, Mary and Simone, to plunder the jungles of the [...] Read more:Mexican
Inside NYC #10 2008-06-27 08:32:47 Mr Smith and I thought we knew a thing or two about fine dining – we’re often first in the queue when a new eaterie opens its doors – but when we met Oliver Schwaner-Albright last week, we realised that we still had a hell of a lot to learn about gourmet gastronomy. It’s lucky [...]
Inside NYC #9 2008-06-23 09:45:37 Hilary Bowers is one of the most tireless people we’ve met – which is saying something given that we’ve just spent a week in the city that never sleeps. As well as founding fashion megasite Yoox and running her own press agency, Banzai, Hilary also found the time to show us round her home city. [...]
New Look for Mr & Mrs Smith 2008-06-22 10:11:30 We’re very excited to announce the launch of our newly redesigned Mr & Mrs Smith
homepage today, featuring an exciting new late availability board, where with just one click you can grab a last-minute getaway, and new top 10 hotels and destinations boards.
You can also keep up to date with the latest news from Smith, [...]
Inside NYC #8 2008-06-20 12:00:20 Condé Nast Traveller has to be one of the world’s most admired and respected travel magazines, which makes their Word of Mouth editor, Kate Maxwell, one of the most influential people in the business. That’s why we were delighted when Kate – an Englishwoman in New York – slipped her us insider tips on the [...]
Smith trips: Amber does the Maldives 2008-08-05 08:40:51 Lucy grills Amber
about her recent research trip to the Maldives
in the Indian Ocean
So, Amber, welcome back: tell us a bit about your trip to the Maldives – was it all lying about on beaches catching rays (my guess, judging by your tan, which is still astonishing after a week back in Grey Britain)?
Well [...] Read more:Smith
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Desert island misc. 2008-08-04 12:19:41 It’s that magic time of the month again – we’ve just launched a whole host of luxurious boutique hotels in some of the furthest-flung corners of the world. It’s a mixed bag (in terms of geography, not quality, naturally), covering four continents, eight countries, and one very hefty air fare bill (carbon-offset, of course)
Most excitingly, [...] Read more:Desert
The rules of the road trip 2008-08-01 12:07:14 Since the launch of the Smith route-planner and our top luxury UK road-trips not so long ago, we’ve been thinking a lot about the lure of the open road, the thrill of the wind in the hair, and the enduring 80s awfulness of soft-rock service-station drive-time compilation albums.
Thus far, we’ve thought exclusively about journeys within [...]
Lunch with John Hitchcox 2008-08-01 03:47:14 So - yesterday, I had lunch with John Hitchcox at Electric House (of Soho House Group fame). You may not know his name but you will certainly have heard of:
a) at least one of his building projects (Jia, The Gramercy – not to be confused with Ian Shrager’s New York hotel).
b) his business partner, design [...] Read more:Lunch
We ask the questions: Q&A with luxury-travel newshounds, globorati 2008-07-31 07:54:01 Mark Jolly is founder and editor of globorati.com, a brilliant online resource for globetrotting travellers who have expectations that go somewhat beyond those of your average backpack-toting wanderer. This luxury-travel newsfeed reports on upcoming travel trends and cutting-edge hotel design, covering topics from glamping in the Golden Triangle to Mongolia’s manliest man contest (I’ve Read more:questions
Smith: an iPhone-friendly travel blog 2008-07-30 11:01:28 If you happen to reading this on your iPhone
, you’ll already know what I’m about to say – namely, that you can now read Mr & Mrs Smith
’s ever-lovelier blog on pocket-sized screens around the world in an Apple-friendly format, with no risk of compatibility snag-ups or slow-load nightmares. Whether you have an iPhone or [...]
New boutique road trips and route-planner gizmo 2008-07-29 06:50:45 Boutique hotels were only the beginning; now Mr & Mrs Smith have taken to the roads too. You might have spotted a wee piece in Grazia the other week (the one sporting a delightfully floral Cameron Diaz on the cover) about boutique road trips
– the Smith team have road-tested seven great drives all over [...] Read more:route
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The ‘Inn’ Thing 2008-07-28 07:24:08 On Saturday, when the Guardian ran a little piece about some of Smith’s boutique hotels in the South-of–France wine country, James and I were enjoing a glass or two over lunch at The Olde Bell in Hurley, Berkshire. It’s a return to the age-old idea of the ‘inn’, not a hotel where the rooms usually [...] Read more:Thing
Travel blogger Darren Cronian shares his hotel hates 2008-07-25 06:50:14 Darren Cronian is the editor of Travel
Rants, an award-winning consumer travel blog. He started writing in April 2005 after a frustrating experience booking a holiday with a high-street travel agency and has since been blogging his socks off about pretty much every conceivable aspect of travel. We asked him to write a few words [...] Read more:Darren
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Free nights at European boutique hotels and £10,000 holidays to win 2008-07-24 10:35:05 If there’s one thing we love more than staying in luxury boutique hotels in fabulous European
locations, it’s staying in luxury boutique hotels in fabulous European locations for free. Doubtless, you feel the same, or chances are you wouldn’t be reading this. It’s great news for all of us, then, that Mr & Mrs Smith’s [...] Read more:nights
Ibiza uncovered: beyond clubland 2008-08-22 03:15:39 Since we’re musing on music this week, and the Ibiza closing parties are looming on the event horizon, we thought we’d spend Friday pondering the other – quieter, greener, more grown-up – side of Ibizan-island life. (NB If you’re the ‘I party-hard, I’ll sleep when I’m dead, and I wanna stay up till dawn with [...] Read more:beyond
How Smith finds boutique hotels 2008-08-21 11:20:09 Lara Dunston asked us recently how we went about finding the wow-inducing boutique hotels in our collection. Juliet has been blogging about what checkboxes a hotel has to tick before it gets into the Smith
collection (and a darned fine job she did too), but that doesn’t explain how we’ve got to the front desk [...]
Postcard from Wales 2008-08-21 09:45:09 After reading Lucy’s Flavorpill post on the blog yesterday, I started thinking about events I’ve been to recently, and the British festival season popped into my head. There’s not another country in the world in which wandering about in sheeting rain and eating food prepared by people with hands grubbier than a mole would be [...] Read more:Postcard
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We ask the questions: Q&A with No 1 events detective agency Flavorpill 2008-08-20 02:30:02 On-the-pulse online events
calendar Flavorpill is a great site to browse if you’re looking for up-to-the-minute listings – from low-brow culture to high-brow classics, comedy to chamber music and everything in between – and it covers some of Mr & Mrs Smith’s favourite city destinations, including New York, Los Angeles, London and Miami. We talk [...] Read more:questions
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The coast with the most 2008-08-19 07:53:30 Ah – the Great British seaside, a holiday institution that has seen more revivals and reinventions than Madonna’s on-stage wardrobe. With the Euro gaining strength, the credit crunch biting (anyone else sick of hearing that term already?) and growing interest in train travel and supporting local enterprise, making the most of our very own coast [...]
Hotel or house swap? 2008-08-17 01:46:05 Well, hotels obviously. But then I’m biased. Thing is what do you do if you need to stay away for a longer period, with the whole family when you’re going to New York? A house swap can be one answer – and the best thing about our recent spell in Brooklyn was that it meant [...] Read more:Hotel
The ‘Inn’ Thing 2 2008-08-14 03:53:41 Reading Tam’s recent posts about Ilse Crawford’s new venture and the Barnsley House boys’ latest acquisition, I couldn’t help wondering (in true Carrie Bradshaw style) whether we’ll be seeing an explosion in polished designer ‘boozers with bedrooms’ in the next year or two. If this turn of events does become a trend, I don’t think [...] Read more:Thing
Barnsley House revisited 2008-08-12 07:11:55 More news on the inn front: last weekend, James and I had an all-too-rare weekend off - no reviewing, researching or meeting with hoteliers to tell them all about Smith - this one was purely pleasure. We went to Barnsley House
(one of the very first boutique hotels to come into our collection). Now, I [...]
What makes a Smith hotel? 2008-08-11 05:08:09 ‘Boutique hotel’ must be up there as one of the most overused and misused terms. At Smith
, not only do we adore genuine boutique hotels, but we love special stays that have their own wow-factor.
So how do we define what makes
a boutique hotel or a Smith hotel?
THE QUESTIONS MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM ASK THEMSELVES [...]
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