Category Archives: LASSCO News
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24 July 2012
Thame Out
Local magazine, Thame Out, covers the Salvage Olympiad party in its current summer issue. Also featured is a competition to win lunch for two with a bottle of house wine at the Three Pigeons. Do enter! The magazine is delivered to 8,000 homes in the region and is also available at a number of pick-up...
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17 July 2012
It’s a Dog’s Life
Much talk of Dogs in Vauxhall and Bermondsey; it seems the Hipster’s essential accessory is no longer a customised “Fixie” but Man’s Best Friend, lost-and-found stray or exotic pure breed – Jane Common’s Magnum Opus filmed at Brunswick House testifies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2HwQTS9Z68 http://underaglasssky.com/2012/07/09/the-maltby-street-food-market/
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17 July 2012
Lachlan Goudie at Brunswick House
LASSCO at Brunswick House is pleased to curate an exhibition by contemporary Scottish artist Lachlan Goudie. Now living and working in London, his dramatic work evokes the figurative tradition of Scottish painting drawing on his inspiration from such diverse sources as Matisse, Sargent and Manet. Many of the paintings displayed in Brunswick House are of...
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10 July 2012
Japanese Casa
A six page spread in Japan’s glossy ‘Casa’ magazine features both LASSCO Ropewalk and LASSCO Brunswick House There are some super images of both the LASSCO London sites
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5 July 2012
Olympic Rings
We’ve been rummaging around in Magdalen Tower, Oxford and we emerged with the oak bell wheels – now surplus to requirements after the re-hanging of the bells there in the Spring. We bought them, not really knowing what we were going to do with them. Having got them back to The Three Pigeons (we are...
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16 June 2012
“I’ve indulged my whims” says Peter Hone in The Times Magazine
Master Plaster Caster Peter Hone has his extraordinary flat featured in today’s The Times Magazine (Saturday 16th June 2012). For half a century he has lived in his West London apartment and in the article he shows it to Vinny Lee. Peter has recently given our own “telephone repeater station” here at LASSCO Three Pigeons...
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14 June 2012
Brunswick House Film Location
Brunswick House is used as a film location for Estate: http://estatefilm.co.uk/ ….a film for our times, about the places and things that matter. Neo Georgian flatted dwellings meet the real thing at Brunswick House.
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11 June 2012
Shops one can’t resist.
Amuse magazine’s June muse is Anya Hindmarch, the doyenne of handbag designers, who lists us again as one of the shops she just can’t resist! She has sourced all sorts from LASSCO including reclaimed floorboards, bathroom taps and display cabinets salvaged from the National Maritime Museum. The stock in the image below includes some marvellous...
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8 June 2012
The Chic Outdoors in ‘Easy Living’
Jennifer Haslam shows how to use architectural salvage to make one’s garden a gorgeous summer hang-out in July’s ‘Easy Living’ Magazine. Choosing one of our series of mirrors, made from reclaimed industrial window frames dating from the 1930s, she shows how they enhance the feeling of space and light in smaller gardens. For more information on these mirrors...
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5 June 2012
Praise for venue hire at Brunswick House
Steeped in Georgian splendour, Brunswick House is a relic of Old London. It is also a relatively new venue which caters for private dining, boardroom meetings, events and receptions. The events are hosted in the beautiful rooms within the house and catering is provided by The Brunswick House Cafe. We have received some wonderful feedback from our guests:...
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29 May 2012
Anya Hindmarch would go to LASSCO Brunswick House on her perfect day!
At the weekend, the Financial Times Weekend Magazine asked Anya Hindmarch (designer célèbre of handbags-to-die-for) to imagine her perfect day in London: Starting in a Cabman’s shelter in Pont Street she makes her way along the South Bank to Shad Thames, ducks into the City of London and opts to spend her afternoon at LASSCO Brunswick...
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24 May 2012
Pumps Primed at Three Pigeons
Anyone wanting to buy the wall pump on display by the kitchen door at the Three Pigeons will have to wait. We’ve got blue-tits nesting in it – the parents are continuously bringing in food to five (?) hungry chicks inside. They are making quite a racket. The wild-life in these parts is going full...