Category Archives: LASSCO Brunswick House
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28 August 2019
Specialists Pick: Snakes in a Frame
Occasionally our specialists discover a selection of items that deserve longer in the spotlight than our Latest Stock page allows. This time around, print expert Graham Hilleard, has brought to your attention a selection of snake engravings produced by Eighteenth century journalist John Wilkes. The Dart Snake of Ceylon By the time John Wilkes...
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22 August 2019
Hidden Stock: Top 3 Most Dazzling Cut Glass Chandeliers
With such a vast expanse of highly decorated chandeliers – each one with its own teardrops and scrolled arms, glass pendants, moulded and cut glass droplets – it can be a trial to pin point the correct one for your home. In an effort to make things easier our specialists have picked their Top 3....
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13 August 2019
Hidden Stock: Top 5 Most Arresting Print Collections
With so many long and diverse runs of immediately eye catching prints in stock it can be difficult, at times, to pinpoint the most appropriate and cohesive collections for your home. We’ve cut through our entire inventory to bring you our Top 5 Staff Picks.
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1 August 2019
Specialists Pick: The Finest Regency Chimneypieces
Specialists Pick Occasionally our specialists will be asked to recommend to our customers the best of the best, from timber cladding to fine silver. Design and Decoration expert, Chris Martin highlights his personal preference when it comes to the architectural element that can be found at the centre of some of the grandest rooms in Great...
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24 June 2019
Runners Report: Lost Everyman House Cladding Recovered
Wavy, pink, white brass A LASSCO architectural salvage runner has revealed to us that he has in his possession a shining example of London’s Modernist past that was believed to be lost over a decade ago. The complete facade, excluding Swedish Black granite, made up Gainsborough and Everyman House. The reclaimed material in question...
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22 May 2019
Spring Bank Holiday Monday
Monday the 27th of May is Spring Bank Holiday in the UK. Our opening hours are as follows: LASSCO Three Pigeons – Oxfordshire Saturday 25th May: Open as usual 9am to 5pm Sunday 26th May: Closed as usual Bank Holiday Monday 27th May: Closed LASSCO Brunswick House – Vauxhall Saturday 25th...
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13 May 2019
The Vauxhall Grand Regatta
As so often here at Brunswick House, an upcoming event of ineffable modernity reminds us of things past – usually more decorous.
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12 March 2019
Salon Wednesdays, 13th March: How to use Colour the old-fashioned way
Join the paint expert and interior designer, Edward Bulmer at Brunswick House this Wednesday 13th March, where he will give an enlightening talk on what constitutes traditional colour, its uses and the benefits of getting it right.
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13 February 2019
Salon Wednesday, 20th Feb: Paint in a Nutshell
Final tickets are available for our second Salon Wednesday of the Year taking place on the 20th of February 2019. Author and historic paint consultant Patrick Baty provides a colourful look at how to go bold with paint in period homes while respecting the past.
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28 November 2018
Into Public Ownership
LASSCO bids a fond farewell to another big beast of the Victorian public house interior.
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30 October 2018
Forty years of LASSCO: 1st November 1978
The origins of LASSCO (The London Architectural Salvage & Supply Company) can be traced way back through “Geo. Amos & Son” – a cabinet makers in the East End – to sawyers at Spilmersford Mill on the Tyne in East Lothian in Georgian times. It was in the 1970’s that Adrian Amos saw the opportunity...
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8 October 2018
LASSCO Christmas Bookings Still Available
Brunswick House Celebrate this Christmas amidst the glint of brass and the sparkle of crystal within the warm furnished rooms of Brunswick House. Fully catered parties of all sizes can be provided for at the rates described below. Brunswick House, with its roaring fires and its shabby genteel dignity, is always at its...