Category Archives: LASSCO News
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Bank Holiday Weekend opening hours
23rdMay 2017Saturday 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
25thApril 2017LASSCO 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
12thApril 2017A 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
29thMarch 2017LASSCO’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’
5thDecember 2016LASSCO 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.
1stNovember 2016LASSCO 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.
29thSeptember 2016LASSCO 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
21stSeptember 2016Sara 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
30thAugust 2016Day 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 […]
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August Bank Holiday Weekend opening times
23rdAugust 2016LASSCO Three Pigeons – Oxfordshire Saturday 27th August: Open as usual 9am to 5pm Sunday 28th August: Closed Bank Holiday Monday 29th August: Closed LASSCO Brunswick House – Vauxhall Please be aware that this Friday 26th August the shop will be closing early at 4 pm and on Saturday 27th August at 3.30 pm […]
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