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Notes On Entertaining With Fiona Leahy Soho Notebook in Panama

Smythson

£195

Meet the effortless party host’s secret companion. Our Notes on Entertaining Soho notebook sees world-renowned event designer and entertaining connoisseur Fiona Leahy share her tips and tricks for throwing a fabulous dinner party; from guest lists, invitations and setting the all-important mood, to her signature art of creating the most charming ‘tablescapes’. Once you’ve uncovered Fiona’s secrets, plenty of planning and notes pages allow you to start plotting your own dinner parties in detail – right down to your outfit. Bound in our signature Nile Blue cross grain leather, this notebook come

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UK company
Registered at Companies House as FRANK SMYTHSON LIMITED, number 03594597. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "Warehousing, Customer Service & Production - Swindon" Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.