Category Archives: LASSCO Brunswick House
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1 September 2014
A visual feast at LASSCO Brunswick House & Three Pigeons,
The UK’s biggest Asian wedding title, Asiana, recently used our Vauxhall premises as a location for a huge fashion shoot. Incorporating bridal fashion, features, wedding planning and an essential Wedding Directory, no Asian bride in the UK gets married without it. Meanwhile, at LASSCO Three Pigeons there’s more brides lurking in the...
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28 August 2014
There’s a hitch…
Please be aware that this Saturday 30th August at Brunswick House, the shop and restaurant will be closing early at 3pm. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Our fabulous interior is once again lending itself to a special occasion and we need to make ready, so please come and see us but don’t leave...
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5 August 2014
Prince Jefri of Brunei’s scagliola columns,
LASSCO has in stock eleven fine scagliola columns made for Prince Jefri of Brunei. In imitation of the rarest of marbles, Convent Siena and Russian Malachite they were made by Hayles & Howe for one of London’s twentieth century most remarkable and ill fated follies – the conversion of the Playboy Club in Park Lane...
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29 July 2014
The Stuarts at LASSCO Brunswick House?!
Presented by Dr Clare Jackson of Cambridge University, this new three-part series argues that the Stuarts, more than any other, were Britain’s defining royal family. Some of episode two was filmed upstairs in the Saloon at LASSCO Brunswick House last summer. With Anglo-Scottish relations in the spotlight and with the Palace of Westminster only a...
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24 June 2014
Nature Morte,
These images are from the Summer 2014 issue of Schön! Magazine, a London based fashion, arts and culture quarterly, published in 13 countries. The shoot is a fashion accessories still life story, inspired by the paintings of the 17th Century Baroque artist Daniel Seghers & shows a different use of LASSCO stock. ...
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9 May 2014
Developments at Brunswick House
Brunswick House – Proposed Development: Tell us what you think. LASSCO, in collaboration with Murray John Architects, have recently submitted a planning application for alterations to the front of Brunswick House. We would like to invite all our customers, friends, local residents and anyone interested to attend a public consultation to view and comment on the proposals....
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2 May 2014
Early May Bank Holiday Opening Times
LASSCO Three Pigeons is open as normal this Monday. LASSCO Brunswick House will be open from 11am until normal closing at 5pm whilst LASSCO Ropewalk will remain shut. We hope you all enjoy this national holiday whatever you are doing!
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8 April 2014
Why salvage is the loft-living hipsters’ choice,
Joan Porter quotes Adrian Amos in a recent Antiques Trade Gazette article about how salvage is no longer a leftfield look,
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7 April 2014
Easter Weekend Opening Hours
The Three LASSCO shops are adopting differing opening hours this weekend – so you should be able to get your fix of LASSCO at one of them throughout Easter – but please check the opening times below: LASSCO Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire: Good Friday: Closed but with Limited Viewing available (the Restaurant will be Open) Easter...
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17 March 2014
London’s Evening Standard magazine profiles Adrian Amos,
Adrian Amos, owns architectural salvage company LASSCO. The company’s headquarters, an 18th-century villa overlooking Vauxhall roundabout, was once the seat of the Duke of Brunswick but today it houses everything from salvaged crystal chandeliers and radiators to Victorian hooks and handles. It’s also next door to chef Jackson Boxer’s first venture, the Brunswick...
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14 March 2014
Dr Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, 1944-2014
We are shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Dr Edward Haughey, Lord Ballyedmond in a helicopter crash yesterday near his home in Norfolk. Dr Haughey was a regular LASSCO customer – a rubicund and congenial latter-day Hearst he would fall upon our most grandiloquent stock in the manner that might be expected...
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7 March 2014
Taxidermy at LASSCO
If you listened to You & Yours on Radio 4 yesterday ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01tds04) your interest in taxidermy may have been stimulated. Here’s a selection of some of the taxidermy for sale this w/e at LASSCO shops.