Lido Beach Sarasota
— the quiet beach across the causeway from St. Armands.
Not only on a wall.
Lido Beach Sarasota, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A wide quartz-sand beach on Lido Key, just west of Sarasota across the Ringling Causeway. The sand is fine and the water is warmer than the Atlantic by a few degrees most months. At the south end, the mangroves of Ted Sperling Park open into the lagoons of South Lido. St. Armands Circle is a short walk back across Boulevard of the Presidents. — from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Lido Beach runs along the Gulf side of Lido Key, a barrier island off Sarasota developed by John Ringling in the 1920s. Three public beach accesses serve the island: the main Lido Beach Pavilion in the middle, North Lido at the quiet north end, and South Lido Park with its mangrove lagoons at the south tip. The Ringling Causeway carries Highway 789 over Sarasota Bay from downtown to St. Armands Circle, two blocks east of the sand.
The Gulf here is shallow and clear, with a gentle shore break and a sandbar that holds about thirty yards out. Water temperatures run from the mid-60s in January to the mid-80s in August. The sand is mostly fine quartz washed down over millennia from the southern Appalachians, which keeps it pale and cool underfoot even in midday sun. Red tide can drift through in late summer; the Mote Marine Laboratory on City Island, just north, publishes daily beach conditions for the Sarasota County coast.
Lido Beach Pavilion has free parking, restrooms, a snack bar, and a small pool, all open from sunrise to sunset. St. Armands Circle, two blocks inland, has restaurants and shops in a 1920s Ringling-designed roundabout. South Lido Park, at the island's southern tip, has kayak launches into the mangrove tunnels and a quieter swimming beach. The fall and early-spring shoulder seasons are the calmest windows; spring break in March is the busy one.
