Category Archives: LASSCO News
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4 January 2019
Foster & Gane join LASSCO at The Three Pigeons
We are delighted to welcome Foster & Gane as they take up residence at The Three Pigeons alongside LASSCO. Foster & Gane, over many years, are renowned exhibitors at Battersea Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair. Occupying permanent retail space for the first time, they have deftly adapted what was the pub/restaurant space of the old...
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28 November 2018
Into Public Ownership
LASSCO bids a fond farewell to another big beast of the Victorian public house interior.
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30 October 2018
Forty years of LASSCO: 1st November 1978
The origins of LASSCO (The London Architectural Salvage & Supply Company) can be traced way back through “Geo. Amos & Son” – a cabinet makers in the East End – to sawyers at Spilmersford Mill on the Tyne in East Lothian in Georgian times. It was in the 1970’s that Adrian Amos saw the opportunity...
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4 October 2018
No.1 Poultry – Relics of Lost London for sale
The busy square outside the Bank of England – “Bank Junction” – is a meeting place of ancient arterial routes at the heart of The City of London; it is ringed by the huge stone classical facades of The Mansion House, The Royal Exchange and The Bank of England. Arriving from the West is “Poultry”,...
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28 September 2018
Orphaned Boards – End Of Run Discounted Flooring.
LASSCO is having a clearance sale of remaindered batches of reclaimed flooring. Individual batches in a range of timbers are ‘priced-to-clear’.
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12 July 2018
Salon Wednesdays ‘Inside – Outside; the Architectural Interior’
On 18th July we welcome Stephen Calloway for his talk ‘Inside – Outside; the Architectural Interior’. Ranging widely in time and location Stephen will consider the long and varied use of ‘outside’ architectural motifs in interiors ranging from the magnificent to the mad. Architects, designers and decorators have long seen the repertoire of architectural forms...
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11 July 2018
Ropewalk Summer Clearance
View entire clearance here Adjustable photographic ‘Strobe’ light. retro fitted fluorescent tube lamp holder, now £225 each A late Victorian pub sign, now £1,250 A trio of Kieth Murray for Wedgewood vases, now £400 each, Grey art deco cheval mirror, now £825 View entire clearance here
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18 May 2018
Salon Wednesdays ‘Adam and the Art of Elegance’.
On Wednesday the 23rd May we welcome Jeremy Musson who will examine the work and legacy of Robert Adam in his lecture ‘Adam and the Art of Elegance’.
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17 May 2018
Shop the ‘Grand Designs Live’ Collection
The curtain has been drawn on the LASSCO Grand Designs Live showcase 2018 Your last chance to obtain remaining items from the collection below On something of a whim, LASSCO resolved recently to exhibit at this years Grand Designs show at the London Excel Centre. LASSCO stand at Grand Designs Live 2018 It all came about because Grand Designs host and noted...
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3 May 2018
Peter Pan lands at LASSCO
One night, 106 years ago, a small cluster of men with a lifting derrick, ropes, block & tackle and muscle-power would have been seen in a wooded glade on the western bank of The Serpentine in Kensington Gardens. After darkness had fallen, at some point, their work completed, they would have slipped away; what they...
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6 April 2018
LASSCO at Grand Designs Live 2018
LASSCO to partner Salvo at Grand Designs Live, Excel Centre, May 2018
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26 March 2018
LASSCO Opening Hours: Easter 2018
Please find below the opening hours for the three LASSCO shops – and associated restaurants and market – over the Easter holiday weekend 2018. With the exception of Good Friday, at least one of the shops is open on each day and, if we can help with each others’ enquiries we always will – so...