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23 May 2018
Vauxhall’s New Pleasure Garden
Plan your summer working reception, birthday party or wedding at Brunswick House’s Statuary Garden in central London. The Brunswick House Statuary Garden is striking and unexpected arbour of greenery and sunshine in London’s busy Zone 1. It is ideal for private summer cocktails & canapés receptions. The Statuary Garden itself has always been a...
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22 January 2015
THE THREE PIGEONS, MILTON COMMON, OXFORDSHIRE
LASSCO moved from St. Michael’s Shoreditch to The Three Pigeons Oxfordshire in 2007. The pub we found then was in a terrible state and so were the grounds. We have brought the old Inn back to life. The bar and dining rooms are once again thronged with people – both locals and travellers – and with our Architectural Salvage displayed...
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20 January 2015
BRUNSWICK HOUSE, VAUXHALL: A SHORT HISTORY BY STEFAN LORETT
In the eighteenth century Brunswick House (originally Belmont House) stood in five and half acres of parkland with its own jetty and a handsome frontage onto the Old Portsmouth Road. Now some two and half centuries later it casts a rueful glance at five lanes of traffic thundering past all hours of the day and...
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19 January 2015
ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH, SHOREDITCH: LASSCO’S HOME 1979-2007
St. Michael & All Angels Church in Shoreditch, London EC2 was the home of LASSCO from 1979 until 2007. We were “that Architectural Salvage place in that church in East London”. It is tucked into the rabbit warren of Victorian streets that form a triangle south of where Great Eastern Street leaves the Old Street roundabout and heads towards Spitalfields....
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30 July 2013
Oh, to be beside the sea,
Ali Bradshaw caught up with some of the marine stock for sale at LASSCO shops in her decorating article,’ Ship Ahoy’, in September’s Period Living magazine. https://www.lassco.co.uk/?id=58&tx_evlasscoproductdetail_pi1[uid]=17970 If you want to ‘get the look’ come to LASSCO where other current Nautical stock includes oars, model barges, propellers, luggage racks, portholes, sculls and ocean liner...
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21 July 2013
A Brolly Good Summer
H & A chose vintage parasols as August’s Antique of the Month. However, at the time of posting this piece only one remains in stock (£40) at LASSCO Ropewalk….
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16 July 2013
LASSCO lights up World of Interiors,
Max Egger leads World of Interior readers up the garden path in the August issue. His outdoor lighting feature ‘ Let it glow’ includes a number of lights available at LASSCO shops. No 4 https://www.lassco.co.uk/?id=58&tx_evlasscoproductdetail_pi1[uid]=11148 No 5 https://www.lassco.co.uk/?id=58&tx_evlasscoproductdetail_pi1[uid]=2081
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15 July 2013
‘A genteel old lady fallen in with a crowd of big boys’
Brunswick House is soon to be neighbour to twin skyscrapers. Once the most imposing building in Georgian Vauxhall, the LASSCO mansion is dwarfed in this computer generated image by the Chinese owned 5star hotel and apartment buildings, One Nine Elms. For more information please follow these links: http://www.onenineelms.com/ http://www.wanda.cn/English/group/news/21919.shtml ” ‘A cracking deal’ says Boris –...
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11 July 2013
George Powell – has reached the Pearly Gates and may have done a deal.
George Powell, 22nd February 1958 – 26th June 2013 A sad loss to the London Architectural Salvage trade. George Powell was one half of an institution of the London Antiques Trade – ‘George ‘n Billy’. In a tribute given at George’s funeral, that distinguished member of the Trade, Nigel Bartlett, confessed to first hearing...
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28 June 2013
A Review of The LASSCO Auction – and a short film
What a day it was! We certainly shifted vast quantities of stock on the first ever LASSCO auction. We were very happy with the event that saw some impressive prices on some lots. Some surpassed our erstwhile retail prices. Others were snapped up for a song. We were thrilled to see delighted buyers, including many...
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27 June 2013
A Beautiful Press Party at Brunswick House
This week, Brunswick House hosted a summer press party for skincare experts Balance Me. The Saloon Room was beautified for this special occasion! A great night was had by all. Read all about it here: https://www.balanceme.co.uk/blog/article/balance-mes-summer-press-party/ Venue hire at Brunswick House – contact Jo Auger events@lassco.co.uk