Category Archives: LASSCO Brunswick House
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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.
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28 February 2014
A very special concert with Emmanuel Vass, 3rd April 2014.
The South London Concert Series presents a very special concert at a unique London venue. Emmanuel Vass, BBC Music Magazine’s March “rising star”, will give a piano recital with supporting performances from talented amateur pianists from the London Piano Meetup Group on Thursday 3rd April 2014 at LASSCO Brunswick House. The programme includes music...
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5 January 2014
Something Fishy at LASSCO Brunswick House
Presently the upper staircase of Brunswick House is dominated by a shoal of swimming fish. Stylishly solving the age-old problem of dead wall space in a stair well, it also gives a modern twist to the hanging similar prints, in close groupings. Published in the USSR circa 1948 these original colour lithographs were produced for...
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5 January 2014
Small stories,
Stuck for something to do? If in London then why not pop along to the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. Until 6 September 2015 you can visit (free admission) the Small Stories exhibition of which LASSCO is a sponsor in kind. 12 dolls houses from the past 200 years are brought to life. Our two London shops donated items...
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14 October 2013
‘An English Room’,
What is the essence of an English room? In our hearts we all hold an idea of it. Portrait photographer Derry Moore, who has 37 works in the National Portrait Gallery, has set out to capture it in his fascinating new book, An English Room, a series of pictures of 33 aristocrats, actors, writers and...
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10 October 2013
LASSCO Door Furniture & Brassfoundry Now At Ropewalk
As of October the 7th, LASSCO Door Furniture & Brassfoundry will begin the process of relocating to a new home, at LASSCO Ropewalk, SE1. The transition may take a week or longer, so please bear with us during this transition period – call ahead to avoid disappointment. Door Furniture & Brassfoundry is of course...
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1 October 2013
LASSCO Brunswick House, ‘one of London’s treasures’, in the Sunday Times,
Have a look at this Sunday Times article ‘The world’s six hippest late-night cities’ compiled by Ronojoy Dam, UK creative director of VICE, http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/travel/weekends/city_breaks/article1315968.ece “It’s nice to be in the same company as The Savoy – LASSCO, historically, has spent more time, in a hard hat, pulling out bathrooms from this august institution than sipping ‘white...