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  • 12 April 2017

    A Disposition To Preserve, An Ability To Improve

    A 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...

  • 29 March 2017

    Take Back Control

    LASSCO’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...

  • 21 February 2017

    Order Online with Delivery

    At last, at long last, LASSCO its hauling itself into the digital age with a wide selection of online sales on offer.  You can now buy online After many years spent diligently and stubbornly scorning the advance of technology LASSCO has finally conceded that the internet may be here to stay. In view of this...

  • 1 February 2017

    “No contentment without the beautiful”

    LASSCO has acquired a gross of Afghan saddle bag Soumaks and Kilim textiles and now invites our customers to put them to creative and decorative use. In Your Garden “Each of the flowers in your garden is brighter than a lamp; In your garden a black crow becomes like a phoenix for me. For Rahman...

  • 5 December 2016

    ‘Dear God, What A Place’

    LASSCO 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...

  • 1 November 2016

    High Industrial Swagger On The Factory Floor.

    LASSCO 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...

  • 21 October 2016

    Trafalgar Day

    Today LASSCO commemorates Trafalgar Day. 211 years ago today the His Majesty’s Royal Navy encountered the combined Franco-Spanish fleet off a headland near Cadiz in a place known as Cape Trafalgar. In the heavy fighting that followed the Royal Navy, though outgunned and outnumbered, achieved a stunning and decisive victory that captured the waves for...

  • 18 October 2016

    Skill & Labour

    In the Glass works of Central and Northern Europe at the middle point of the Twentieth Century a remarkable concord was achieved between the rigours of the industrial process and the artistic brilliance of a generation of craftsmen.  The return to handmade glassware during the Final Act of the Industrial Age can seem unsurprising to...

  • 29 September 2016

    Salvaged From Obscurity – Half A Century On.

    LASSCO 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...

  • 21 September 2016

    LASSCO GO at London Design Festival 2016: The Interviews

    Sara 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...

  • 23 August 2016

    August Bank Holiday Weekend opening times

    LASSCO 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...

  • 27 June 2016

    Summer Feasting at Brunswick House

    At least summer has arrived at Brunswick House in the way of dining.  The new summer menus for private dining events feature a salad of summer vegetables: Asparagus, peas, broad beans and roasted beets.  Choosing between a pudding of chocolate pot, cultured cream & strawberries or a mess of meringue, raspberries & boozy peaches could prove...