Category Archives: LASSCO News

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  Brunswick House restaurant closed for refurbishment

  16th

  August 2017

  Posted in: LASSCO Brunswick House, LASSCO News, LASSCO Restaurants & Food, News

    Our restaurant in LASSCO Brunswick House will be closed for some light refurbishment until 29th August.  However, our shop will be open as usual and we will continue hosting private events. Please note that the car park may have very limited space due to the building works.  Just next to us is St. George Wharf underground […]

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  Bank Holiday Weekend opening hours

  23rd

  May 2017

  Posted in: LASSCO Brunswick House, LASSCO News, LASSCO Ropewalk, LASSCO Three Pigeons, News

  Saturday 27th May is the birthday of Sir Henry Williams Baker, the great hymnodist, who founded Hymns, Ancient & Modern. He was born on this day in 1821 at Brunswick House [then called Belmont House], Vauxhall, which was the home of his mother’s family, the Williams of Dorset and is now the home of LASSCO. […]

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  Bank Holiday Weekend opening hours

  25th

  April 2017

  Posted in: LASSCO Brunswick House, LASSCO News, LASSCO Ropewalk, LASSCO Three Pigeons, News

  LASSCO Three Pigeons – Oxfordshire Saturday 29th April: Open as usual 9am to 5pm Sunday 30th April:  Closed Bank Holiday Monday 1st May:  Closed   LASSCO Brunswick House – Vauxhall Please be aware that this Saturday the 29th April the shop will be closing early at 3 pm for a private function. Saturday 29th April: Open […]

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  A Disposition To Preserve, An Ability To Improve

  12th

  April 2017

  Posted in: LASSCO Brunswick House, LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO History, LASSCO News, LASSCO Ropewalk, LASSCO Three Pigeons, News

  A recent LASSCO supplied restoration of a C17th townhouse in the West End of London demonstrates that integrity of materials combined with an eye to improvement are the key ingredients in the enhancement and restoration of ancient buildings. Much like a piece of antique furniture, once wooden floors reach a certain age they all have an inherent […]

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  Take Back Control

  29th

  March 2017

  Posted in: LASSCO History, LASSCO News, LASSCO Three Pigeons, News

  LASSCO’s in house carpenter creates one-off items of furniture combining integrity of materials with admirable utility. We encourage our customers to ponder what they can do themselves with our wealth of salvaged materials. With so much remarkable and historical salvage dispersed across our three sites, we at LASSCO are often sorely tempted to take up and […]

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  ‘Dear God, What A Place’

  5th

  December 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO Brunswick House, LASSCO History, LASSCO News, LASSCO Ropewalk, News

  LASSCO has acquired the complete furniture and fittings of the ill-fated modern bistro ‘Le Chabanais’, lately showered with ordure in the pages of The Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. It is a commonly held misapprehension that Henry VIII naval flagship, the Mary Rose, sank on her maiden voyage. The fate of the barque, packed to […]

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  High Industrial Swagger On The Factory Floor.

  1st

  November 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO History, LASSCO News, LASSCO Press Office, LASSCO Ropewalk, News

  LASSCO has come into posession of a large quantity of reclaimed Victorian maple strip flooring from the Ogden’s tobacco factory in Liverpool. Ogden’s Imperial tobacco factory was constructed in Liverpool on its Boundary Lane site in 1899 by the Architect Henry Hartley in a heterogeneous and pleasingly indiscriminate ‘Queen Anne style’. It was a statement […]

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  Salvaged From Obscurity – Half A Century On.

  29th

  September 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO Flooring, LASSCO History, LASSCO News, LASSCO Ropewalk, News

  LASSCO has unearthed a large batch of decorative tiles from an historic London architectural gem, long thought lost without a trace. ‘Southampton Buildings’, headquarters of the Birkbeck Bank, stood between High Holborn and Chancery Lane between 1896 and 1964. The vast Victorian banking hall was built in two years by T.R. Knightley and Co. At […]

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  LASSCO GO at London Design Festival 2016: The Interviews

  21st

  September 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO Launches and Functions, LASSCO News, News

  Sara from Style Salvo has put together a beautifully written series of interviews on each of the designers featured in our GO Exhibition at LASSCO Ropewalk, for London Design Festival 2016. With so many exhibitions and showcases to choose from in such a short period of time, perhaps this write up will encourage those of you […]

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  Bill Posters will be Prosecuted

  30th

  August 2016

  Posted in: LASSCO News, LASSCO Three Pigeons

  Day one of any graphic design course today probably includes a warning to pupils about using too many typefaces in their work. The Victorians however reveled in having their typesetter go through the full gamut of typography in order to fill their advertisements with vibrant and punchy proclamations in all available fonts and typefaces. From […]