We were in Tusheti
James Seaton. A flight to Baku, nothing seen but its scatter of lights as we came in low over the Caspian. On again to Tbilisi, arriving late and tired. 2am to bed, a room overlooking the mediaeval...
View ArticleJames Seaton, the Lifestyle Editor?
James Seaton, Toast’s co-founder and Creative Director, is interviewed by The Lifestyle Editor about his work, inspirations and achievements. Who are you: James Seaton What is your work: Co-founder...
View ArticleThe River
James Seaton, Toast’s co-founder and Creative Director has written words to photographs taken by Nicholas James Seaton on our autumn/winter 2013 shoot in Canada. on the bluff above the river, five...
View ArticleThe Prairie
James Seaton, Toast’s co-founder and Creative Director has written words to photographs taken by Nicholas James Seaton on our autumn/winter 2013 shoot in Canada. Over the vast terrain’s undulations,...
View ArticleThe Docks
James Seaton, Toast’s co-founder and Creative Director has written words to photographs taken by Nicholas James Seaton on our autumn/winter 2013 shoot in Canada. By dawn light, where the river divides...
View ArticleWestering, November 2013
James Seaton Westering by canoe and trail some lakes half frozen, some clear bleached grass underfoot rolling clouds Our new november 2013 collections – for women, men and house&home – are now...
View ArticleMy Cultural Life – Jamie Seaton
TOAST co-founder Jamie Seaton tells Elle Decoration what he is reading, watching and downloading this month. My favourite piece of music is (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For? by Nick Cave,...
View ArticleArt of Place / Alice Myers – Borderlands
Catrina Davies I met Alice Myers in Scotland on a day when nature was getting the better of us. The sky had cracked open and unleashed a summer's worth of pent-up rain. The ground beneath our feet was...
View ArticleSpirit of Place / The Ghosts of Old Holborn
Michael Smith Last Friday I found myself in a part of London that may well have passed you by, a neighbourhood whose twists and turns have enchanted me for years, twists and turns I’ve deliberately...
View ArticleGUIDE TO SYMI, GREECE
Sailing into Symi’s amphitheatrical harbour is like drifting into a pastel impression of the picture-perfect Greek island. But there are no sugar cube houses or blue and white clichés: neoclassical...
View Article5 FAVOURITE BLOGS – February
Image credit: Petite Passport A selection of our favourite blogs this month. All things cultural, foody and arty… PETITE PASSPORT A tastefully designed interior takes precedence above all else when...
View ArticleRECALLING THE MONASTERIES
Over one hundred monasteries on a small island. In our ten or so days there – out of season, perfect in memory, time out of time – we visited eight: from Agios Emilianos on its own rocky islet, the...
View Article5 GOOD THINGS – FEBRUARY
A curation of our five favourite things this month… THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP – The Japanese art of de-cluttering and organising. By Marie Kondo. TOAST Founder Jessica recently read this...
View ArticleTOAST CLOSE UP – JAPANESE SELVEDGE DENIM
Our collection this half year began with our imaginations in Japan. We have been inspired by the distinctive shapes of the Japanese silhouette, the traditional patterns and prints. We are particularly...
View ArticleINTERVIEW – ARCHITECT DIMITRIS ZOGRAPHOS
Symi has been designated a national monument for its exceptional architecture. Many of the distinctive neoclassical houses have been restored by Dimitris Zographos (www.dzographos.com), an architect...
View ArticleSPIRIT OF PLACE / HASTINGS
It was lovely waking up in the Hastings B’n’B for my girlfriend’s birthday, in the big brass bed, and the harmonious, human proportions of a Georgian bedroom, the big bay window looking out at a...
View ArticleHAY MADE / BY HORATIO CLARE
Today is the start of Hay Festival, bringing together great writers and thinkers from around the world in the staggering beauty of the Brecon Beacons. To mark the occasion, we invited writer Horatio...
View ArticlePORTO & SALT COD
Jo and I, along with several squillion other tourists, have just spent a few days in the handsome, hospitable city of Porto on the River Douro. The only disquieting aspect of this trip was the fact...
View ArticleSHARE YOUR PICTURE FROM THE LAND – #OFTHELAND
Young Mee Rim is a student in Natural History Conservation at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. She is a comber of beaches, mountains and woods – her aim to discover small treasures...
View ArticleBologna and Bolgonese
We arrive in Bologna in mid-August and it’s more or less deserted. We’ve looked at a Ten-Best-Things-To-Do-In-Bologna website. Number 9 is ‘Meet the Locals’. This is proving difficult. The Bolognese...
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