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Category Archives: LASSCO News
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22 November 2013
Hardy Amies profiles Harry Amos
From the Hardy Amies series, ‘Neighbourhood Portraits’. Featuring LASSCO Ropewalk, Maltby Street Market and the musings of our tally clark Harry. See more on neighbourhoodportraits.com
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20 November 2013
Historic Asylum Railing Unearthed
We have identified the origin of some fabulous Georgian cast iron gateposts and railings, boldly cast with distinctive “anthemia” – the honeysuckle motif invented by the ancients and favoured by the Georgians. The gateposts and their accompanying railings were once a well-known landmark on one of London’s busiest thoroughfares: The Old Kent Road. They are...
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11 November 2013
Starring at Ropewalk
Just arrived at Ropewalk ready for Christmas this new Marc Kitchen – Smith stock: Metal Barn Stars. Painted in red, green, blue, mustard, black and white. As featured in December’s Period Living. Available in two sizes, 112cms and 76cms. These stars are not old, but made in the traditional way in rural North America. They...
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31 October 2013
Hats Off to Mr Jones
The Sunday Telegraph feature at the weekend “Little Black Book” was a delve through the address book of one of the UK’s best known milliners – Mr Stephen Jones. We doff our caps to him – we’re very happy that he’s selected LASSCO Three Pigeons as one of his favourite places: Stephen Jones’ Little Black Book...
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29 October 2013
Here be Witchcraft
We had a customer here on Saturday wanting an oak beam for his fireplace lintel. We try and keep a selection of them in stock – salvaged, prepped up and ready to sell. It was only when placing one of the beams aside we happened to put it down with daylight glancing along its length and we...
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23 October 2013
Chevron Oak Parquet Featured
Have a look at the article about Jessica McCormack’s fabulous new shop in Mayfair featured in the October 2013 issue of World of Interiors. At LASSCO Three Pigeons we worked hard to get just the required look and finish, bringing in the oak from our salvage sources on the Continent. The finished floor looks really smart. Jessica McCormack has...
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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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12 October 2013
Reclaimed wood featured in November’s Country Living,
Earlier this year an original exhibition, Wool House, took place at Somerset House in London. Josephine Ryan, an antiques dealer and interior designer styled one of the rooms using reclaimed wood from LASSCO to make panelling and shelves. These and other ideas are featured in the Wonder of Wool article produced by Ben Kendrick in the new Country Living magazine. ‘Reclaimed wood makes the...
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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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10 October 2013
Westlife singer transforms his home,
In collaboration with interior designer, Sean Cochrane, superstar singer-songwriter Mark Feehily has restored a Victorian house and turned it into a dramatic and stylish home. To quote Amelia Thorpe in November’s essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom magazine (ekbb), ‘a reclaimed radiator at the foot of the stairs …..adds a homely feel that naturally blends the old with...
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4 October 2013
Architectural Digest’s celebrities love salvage,
The current SALVO Newsletter summarises recent articles in the North American magazine, Architectural Digest featuring US -based celebrities who use a significant amount of reclaim in their homes. Click to see the full article. Actor Malcolm McDowell’s dining room uses salvage [photo: Photo: Miguel Flores-Vianna/The Interior Archive from Architectural Digest SALVO is the architectural salvage...
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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...