Welcome to FTDO (From the Desk of...), a new series that answers the question "What
IS all of that crap on your desk?"
Anybody who knows former
Brides CD (and former SPD VP)
Gretchen Smelter knows she was born to travel. So, after a stellar career that has included stops at
Fast Company,
Martha Stewart Living,
SmartMoney, and
Real Simple, it was not a big surprise that in September 2010, she jumped at the opportunity to work in Hong Kong as the Group CD for
Edipresse, publishers of the Asian editions of the renowned British
Tatler franchise and 180 other properties.
In early 2011, Smelter and photographer
Frédéric LaGrange traveled to Bali to get married, and decided they wanted to stay. By October, they were living in the island paradise, and traveling and working all over Asia. Gretchen can count Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, China, Macau, Japan, and Turkey among the recent stamps in her passport.
Recently she and her husband were hired by
Aman Resorts to create a book about their outpost in Bali. That's where we caught up with her.
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