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  • 3 May 2012

    Beauty is more than skin deep

    LASSCO has received this beautiful image from happy customer Aesop, who have just opened their shop at Borough Market: Aesop are known for using the finest plant based ingredients in their products for skin, hair and body.  Its great to see our reclaimed stonecutter pine and salvaged sinks together in their new store. This image...

  • 1 May 2012

    idfx Magazine gives LASSCO Shock Treatment

    Jenny Brewer investigates industrial style interiors in this month’s idfx magazine. We’re delighted that she has picked out our “Hi-Voltage Insulator Bar Stools” as an illustration of the way industrial forms and salvage are being used in interior design. A small correction: We didn’t buy the St. John’s Wood substation! We did salvage a huge...

  • 19 April 2012

    Stop The Press!

    Both LASSCO London sites are listed as 2 out of 50 reasons to love South London – so says ES Magazine.  Rope Walk is in there at number 10 along with  The Brunswick House Cafe at number 32. Meanwhile, to quote Living Etc’s ‘Front Doors’ article in the May issue: “For the show-stopping opener your home...

  • 5 April 2012

    The Economist, on the direction of Architectural Salvage, quotes LASSCO

    This week’s Economist (7th April 2012) has an insightful piece about Architectural Salvage by David Rennie … read it here.

  • 29 March 2012

    Interior Solutions in 25 Beautiful Homes

    LASSCO’s ingenious up-cycling ideas, such as our unusual high voltage bar stools get a mention by decorating expert, Rachel Leedham in the current issue. Follow this link to see what they are like! /?id=58&tx_evlasscoproductdetail_pi1[uid]=11874

  • 29 March 2012

    It’s all a facade – so says The Times Magazine

    One of LASSCO’s favourite customers, renowned architect Chris Dyson has opened the doors to his East London house for a spread in The Times Magazine.  Chris has built the first proper Queen Anne facade in London for many years.  Impeccably correct brickwork and fenestration fronts a thoroughly agreeable interior. A glorious recreation and LASSCO is...

  • 15 March 2012

    Exactly 100 years: Heroes of the Antarctic at LASSCO Three Pigeons

    Recently, our diners at LASSCO Three Pigeons have been enjoying their lunch under the watchful eye of Herbert Ponting. We salvaged this framed photograph, an almost life-size reproduction, when clearing the premises of a film archive in Islington some time ago. Ponting (1870-1935) was the best known photographer of the heroic era of polar exploration and a pioneer of Antarctic photography – particularly challenging given...

  • 10 March 2012

    Green Light for Development at LASSCO Three Pigeons!

    LASSCO is delighted to report that Planning Consent has been granted  by South Oxfordshire District Council for a development of our Three Pigeons site. Adrian Amos, LASSCO’s Chairman and founder, writes: ” This consent is great news for LASSCO and all our  friends and customers. Firstly, it will give us ample warehousing, strategically and  conveniently...

  • 23 February 2012

    Self Awareness

    At LASSCO Three Pigeons we have discovered that our shop is the star, or at least one of the settings, in a fiction by the celebrated author and broadcaster Will Self. Curiously, each of his 1994 collection of short stories, collectively titled “Grey Area”, is hinged around the stretch of the M40 motorway from Beaconsfield...

  • 23 February 2012

    SELF AWARENESS: THREE PIGEONS, A FICTIONAL SETTING

    At LASSCO Three Pigeons we have discovered that our shop is the star, or at least one of the settings, in a fiction by the celebrated author and broadcaster Will Self. Curiously, each of his 1994 collection of short stories, collectively titled “Grey Area”, is hinged around the stretch of the M40 motorway from Beaconsfield...

  • 14 February 2012

    An Epiphany

    The Friends of Friendless Churches is a worthy organisation that campaigns for and rescues redundant historic churches threatened by demolition and decay. They do keep an eye out for noteworthy church artefacts that should, by rights, be kept in their intended contexts and find  appropriate homes for them. We are delighted that “The Epiphany” by...

  • 10 February 2012

    Radiant Good Luxe

    Our reclaimed Victorian pine floorboards were used in  the gorgeous series of fashion shots styled and photographed by Damian Foxe, assisted by Fabio Immediato in the current F.T.’s How to Spend It magazine.