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Category Archives: News
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19 October 2015
Soundboards
Go and tread the boards at the new Sonos Studio in Shoreditch – a great project that we were very pleased to have been involved with. Sonos are pioneers of smart wireless HiFi speakers and audio components. Their system unites your digital music collection in one app that you control from any device. Two weeks ago, in Shoreditch, they opened their second...
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13 October 2015
The Vermiculated Rustications of Bedford Square
We are delighted to be able to now offer for sale accurate castings of the landmark door surrounds of Bedford Square. They have been carefully cast by our resident Master Plaster Caster, Mr Peter Hone, from one of the Georgian originals in New Cavendish Street. (Available here ). In summarising the story behind the striking door surrounds of Bedford...
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17 September 2015
Annie Sloan Paint: Now Stocked
We are extremely pleased to announce that LASSCO is now a stockist of Annie Sloan paint. We have greatly enjoyed using her fabulous Chalk Paint product in many applications in the past – whether for restorations or room sets. Our customers already know the paint well – it is always being discussed in the shop. For...
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27 July 2015
“Architectural Salvage” by Will Self
Will Self has just published a short story entitled “Architectural Salvage” in the “Weekend Magazine” – Saturday Guardian. The setting seems familiar!: “…at least the venue was appropriate: Lettice had hired out the long, dusty salon that formed the first-storey salesroom of an upmarket architectural salvage business. It was here young and upwardly-mobile...
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13 July 2015
Brunswick House Wedding Venue
Getting hitched? Looking for an alternative wedding reception venue? Look no further! Brunswick House is featured in this blog with great pics: http://mattbadenoch.com/london-wedding-venue-brunswick-house/
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18 June 2015
Westminster Bridge For Sale
LASSCO is delighted to offer for sale the original Victorian Westminster Bridge that was removed during the extensive restoration works carried out in 1997 – the first time that an historic London river crossing has been offered on the open market since John Rennie’s Portland stone London Bridge of 1831 was sold by The Corporation of London...
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16 June 2015
Commemorating Our Duke
Essentially our business is dealing in ‘history’. It’s debatable whether it’s usually history with a Big ‘H’ or history with a small ‘h’. Today, 16th June 2015, LASSCO at Brunswick House is touched by Big History. It marks the 200th anniversary of the death at the Battle of Quatre Bras of Frederick William, Duke of...
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8 June 2015
LASSCO in the Press,
Here’s a selection of where you can see LASSCO in the press this week: A new interiors story ‘Mineral Hues’ out in the July issue of Homes and Gardens shot by Sarah Maingot & styled by Twig Hutchinson who puts our blue enamel pendant lights to great use. A wedding dress fashion shoot in Asiana magazine’s Summer issue which...
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8 June 2015
The London Festival of Architecture comes to Brunswick House 16th June 2015
Nine Elms on The South Bank will be hosting a panel discussion at Brunswick House on Tuesday 16th June 2015. 6pm – 8pm. Panelists include Adrian Amos (LASSCO) alongside Councillor Ravi Govindia (Wandsworth Council), Sandra Roebuck ( Lambeth Council), Pam Alexander (Covent Garden Marketing Authority), John Bushell (Kohn Pederson Fox Associates), David Twohig (Battersea Power...
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2 June 2015
The Brunswick House Ball 19th June 2015
An evening of Georgian feasting to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo with food by Jackson Boxer. A wonderful, decadent evening where the dress code is black tie with a Napoleonic twist! There will be a talk by award wining historian and Napoleon expert, Count Adam Zamoyski. Music in The Concert Hall...
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5 May 2015
Election Mayhem
This Thursday the UK holds a General Election. It hasn’t been a gripping election campaign. Not like the old days. In the mid 18th Century William Hogarth had plenty to work with – in his “Humours of an Election”, a series of oils – later engravings, he illustrates the election of a member of parliament in Oxfordshire in 1754. The paintings date to the...
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14 April 2015
LASSCO in the press,
See the May issue of World of Interiors for some beautifully photographed articles including ‘Positively Medieval’ with words by Ros Byam Shaw & photography by Jan Baldwin. It’s about Allt-y-Bela, Arne Maynard and William Collinson’s home in Monmouthshire which has been restored thanks to the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust. Look carefully and in the small...