No products in the basket.
Category Archives: LASSCO News
-
19 February 2013
The Oxford Times finds the food “Delicious”, the shop “Lavish” & our Master Plaster Caster “Fascinating”!
The Oxford Times has a monthly colour supplement called Limited Edition and, not for the first time, they have done us proud over the past two editions with extensive features on both the restaurant and the shop at LASSCO Three Pigeons. In the January edition, our chef, Sam Atkinson, delighted the reviewer for the “Food...
-
9 February 2013
Cranes
LASSCO Brunswick House trades as usual this weekend, Saturday & Sunday, as the advanced masterclass of high-level crane logistics unfolds around us. Ever since the tragic events of January when a helicopter collided with the lofty tower-crane at the rear of Brunswick House (see previous post here), Nine Elms Lane has been closed to traffic...
-
23 January 2013
The Wall Street Journal features LASSCO Three Pigeons
This week’s Wall Street Journal has a wonderful write up about Peter Hone, our resident Master Plaster Caster, his complicated career and his triumphant gallery here at LASSCO Three Pigeons. Orders are coming in for his delicate plaster casts of architectural details and sculptural fragments. They can all be viewed in our so-called Hone Exchange...
-
22 January 2013
Vauxhall Helicopter Crash: One Week On
It was with horror on Wednesday morning last week that Stefan Lorett, our Projects Manager, standing at the front of Brunswick House, first heard and then saw, a helicopter plummet straight past and crash into the busy London street in front of him. Helicopter wreckage and burning aviation fuel was spread across Wandsworth Road, just along from...
-
16 January 2013
Helicopter Crash Update: LASSCO Brunswick House NOW OPEN!
***FINAL UPDATE >>>> 19TH Jan 9.00am Brunswick House finally re-opens this morning. The protracted delay was due to first the Police cordon and then our neighbours at St. George Wharf placing our shop within an exclusion zone due to the damaged crane at the rear of the building. There are still road closures in the...
-
8 January 2013
Think Salvage
Period Living Magazine, January 2013 issue includes a comprehensive article by Roger Hunt entitled ‘Think Salvage’. The article recognises the salvage yard as being “a first port of call when your’re undertaking a renovation project..” LASSCO stock featured include Victorian brass and porcelain hooks, a vintage brass door bell with porcelain push and a restored...
-
4 January 2013
Les Miserables – Revolutionary Gates
If you’re off to the cinema to spend a couple of hours with Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway et al in the new film adaptation of “Les Misérables” – look out for some beautiful wrought iron gates from LASSCO Three Pigeons! These gates have had a wonderful life. We suspect that they started life as altar-gates...
-
18 December 2012
Christmas & New Year Opening Hours
At all three LASSCO shops we would like to wish a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our customers – past present and future. Please take note of the opening times at our shops which differ from each other. We hope you can pay us a visit over the holiday period....
-
13 December 2012
Pop Up at Ropewalk
Maltby Street traders have taken to ‘popping up’ at LASSCO Ropewalk. As mentioned in Mouthwatering’s blog this month. Follow this link: http://mouthwatering.wordpress.com/tag/little-bird-gin/
-
20 November 2012
Restoration trade secrets revealed in Country Life
Arabella Youens puts LASSCO first in Country Life’s recommendations for the best salvage yards to go to. This is in the current Restoration/Architecture issue. ”No matter what you need to finish your house, a yard (LASSCO!) will have it”.
-
20 November 2012
Dealers’ dossier does the talking in current ATG.
Anna Brady, who writes the dealers’ dossier in the Antiques Trade Gazette (ATG), the Art Market Weekly, includes a piece this week about the series of LASSCO luminaries’ talks. Anna has picked up on how LASSCO, architectural salvage expert, continues to trailblaze. The next talk in the series is this Thursday and is being given by Jennifer Wood, the...
-
15 November 2012
Utopia on Thames
With the US Embassy committing to their plans to relocate from Mayfair to Nine Elms – right next door to LASSCO Brunswick House – there has been a rash of reporting on what is to become of the area. Brownfield site clearances and hoardings now line Nine-Elms Lane. “Vauxhall Tower” or “No1 St. George Wharf”...