N° 04 · Spring 26

The Toaster.

A single product, made with intention. One element, one dial, one decision at a time.

Our story

Built in Oslo.
Made in Verona.

We started with a simple observation: every toaster on the market was either beautiful and unreliable, or reliable and ugly. We wanted both. So in 2022, a small team in Oslo set out to make one toaster — not a range, not a collection — just one toaster, done properly.

The chassis is cast aluminium, double-walled. The element is long-wave quartz. The dial is weighted brass. The lever glides on a machined track. Every part was redesigned from scratch, sourced from workshops in northern Italy, and assembled in Verona by a team of twelve.

We have made four issues. Each one is the same toaster, slightly more refined. We plan to make more.

The Toasters No. 04, four-slot, in brushed steel
The craft

How we make it.

Every decision has a reason. Here are the ones that took the longest to get right.

1700W
Quartz element
9shades
Held to ±2 sec
5yrs
Full warranty
The element

We use a long-wave quartz element that heats the bread's entire face simultaneously — no pale stripes, no scorched edges. It reaches operating temperature in under four seconds and holds it within two percent for the duration of the cycle.

The dial

Weighted brass, machined to 0.01 mm tolerance. It moves through nine settings with the same tactile resistance as a good camera lens. The detents are precise enough that you can return to your preferred shade by feel, without looking.

The lever

A motorised lift-and-look mechanism. Press gently and the carriage rises to reveal the toast; release and it drops back without ending the cycle. It was the hardest part to engineer and the one users mention first.

The chassis

Cast in a single piece of double-walled aluminium. The outer surface stays under 45°C even at maximum setting. It does not conduct heat to the counter. It does not flex. It will not corrode. It was designed to last longer than any other object in your kitchen.

The archive

Four issues. One obsession.

Each issue documents what we changed, why we changed it, and what we learned. They read like field notes.

Issue 01
Spring 2023
The Element
The first production run. We describe why we chose long-wave quartz over nichrome, and what happened when we tested seventeen elements before settling on this one.
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Issue 02
Autumn 2023
The Dial
The dial took eleven months. We tried aluminium, steel, resin, and three alloys of brass before we found one that felt right at operating temperature. The detents were designed by a watchmaker in Geneva.
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Issue 03
Spring 2025
The Lever
The lift-and-look mechanism required a custom motor, a custom track, and six months of field testing with two hundred households. This issue documents every failure and what we did about it.
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Issue 04
Spring 2026
The Chassis
Double-walled cast aluminium. Designed in Oslo, cast in Verona, finished by hand. This is the current edition. We are already thinking about Issue 05.
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