Arts & Culture
Exploring the art world through the eyes of curators, artists, photographers and architects. Visits to studios, galleries, museums and homes.
WORKSPACE | SCULPTOR & LETTER CARVER
Jo Sweeting is a sculptor and letter carver, living and working in
#LOSTINLITERATURE WITH HAY FESTIVAL
This month TOAST partnered with Hay Festival and offered our Instagram and
Ikat | An Age-Old Technique
John Gillow is an author, lecturer and collector who has spent more than 40
Lost Literature | The Compleat Angler
Ellie Tennant has been scouring the shelves of secondhand bookshops in search
Akiko Hirai | Potter
The teacup is a much esteemed and venerated object in Japan. Yet potters who
THE STORY OF INDIGO
Can you name the colours of the rainbow? Three centuries ago, all-round genius
ARTIST ROANNA WELLS | OF THE LAND
Roanna Wellsis an artist, living and working in Yorkshire. TOAST has
LOST LITERATURE - THE MOUNTAIN TOP
Each month, journalist Ellie Tennant scours the shelves of secondhand bookshops
CERAMICIST ADAM BUICK | OF THE LAND
Adam Buick, a ceramicist fromPembrokeshire, is one of the artists TOAST
OAS | FOUR WOMEN - NICOLA EASTON - POTTER
OAS is our new collection of workwear-inspired clothing. Our shoot features
A short history of rembetica
The origins of the music now known as rembetica lie in the mid-nineteenth
SISTERHOOD WITH TOAST
Sisterhood 2015 Standing at the water's edge hands held high we dance to
WORKSPACE / GOLDSMITH KERRY SEATON
Goldsmith Kerry Seaton has been designing precious jewellery for Toast for
WORKSPACE / DAVID HARKINS
David Harkins was one of the brilliant models in our SS15 Men's shoot, taken by
WORKSPACE / TIF HUNTER
Photographer Tif Hunter explains the processes involved in making a tintype,
5 FAVOURITE BLOGS - MARCH
A selection of our favourite blogs this month. All things cultural, foody and
Limewash - its beauty
Limewash is simply slaked lime calcium hydroxide mixed with water. Applied
TEXTURES / THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
Towards the end of last year I finally started Joan Didion's The Year of