THOM 8 | Spring / Summer 2017

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CREATORS “It’s totally a family business.” 19
CREATORS kitschy phrases, porcelain teacups – and each piece is as compelling and extraordinary as the next. It all pulls together into this kaleidoscopic monolith that gets to the core of the Smith kind of cool. When we catch up, they’re running on fumes from their first holiday season as purveyors of Smith Collective, an artist-centric Thomasville storefront that offers every item you never knew you needed, like a baby doll sconce or the snarkiest handpainted, gold embossed tea cups to ever come this far south of the Mason-Dixon line. Situated on South Broad Street next to Grassroots Coffee, the blacks and whites of Erin’s displays entreat the eye like a visual charcuterie under glass, welcoming visitors to one of the many outward expressions of the Smith family mosaic. “We’re a lot of things to a lot of people, and we absolutely love it,” says Erin. “We want to bring you that cool new beauty thing or the fun new art supplies and quality, unique home décor. I could go on. All of it is such a blast to pull together.” Fitting a bill of this size requires connections and know-how, two resources the couple has cultivated with every passport stamp and road trip, many of which have been memorialized on Kent. “I think I had one tattoo when I started, and through the travel it’s just continued,” he says, laughing. “It becomes almost like a scrapbook of where you’ve traveled to, where you’ve been in your experiences.” Work and pleasure have given the Southern-grown pair their fair share of travels, with the Smiths having touched down in almost every corner of the globe, due, in part, to Kent’s work with Illustrated Monthly, his revolutionary art reference publishing 20
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CONNECTORS “Everyone has gotten m
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CONNECTORS from them. I love nothin
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TASTEMAKERS a taste for storytellin
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TASTEMAKERS power of local food tra
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