Latest LASSCO News
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23 June 2017
Bookcases ex The Queen’s College, Oxford
The late 17th Century Upper Library at The Queen’s College, Oxford University, is one of the finest rooms in Oxford. It houses the largest and most diverse collections of rare books in any of the University Colleges. We are delighted to have acquired a quantity of oak bookcases that, for the past 160 years, have...
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12 June 2017
The Gilded BBQ – Review
We would like to thank Chris and Greg of Native Feasts for another superb Pop-Up extravaganza this weekend; a banquet amidst the salvage. Tickets for Friday and Saturday nights were sold out within hours and the happy crowds each night enjoyed cocktails around the firepit before filing in for the Feast. This time dinner –...
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23 May 2017
Bank Holiday Weekend opening hours
Saturday 27th May is the birthday of Sir Henry Williams Baker, the great hymnodist, who founded Hymns, Ancient & Modern. He was born on this day in 1821 at Brunswick House [then called Belmont House], Vauxhall, which was the home of his mother’s family, the Williams of Dorset and is now the home of LASSCO....
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9 May 2017
Cabinets of Wonder
LASSCO is encouraged to see the inclusion of a modest geological museum with many of its contemporaneous Edwardian features intact included in a short list for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year prize. Though modest in scale the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham is being pitted against some of the nation’s great cultural institutions...
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25 April 2017
Bank Holiday Weekend opening hours
LASSCO Three Pigeons – Oxfordshire Saturday 29th April: Open as usual 9am to 5pm Sunday 30th April: Closed Bank Holiday Monday 1st May: Closed LASSCO Brunswick House – Vauxhall Please be aware that this Saturday the 29th April the shop will be closing early at 3 pm for a private function. Saturday 29th April: Open...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7 February 2017
What the photographer saw at Brunswick House
The events team at Brunswick House regularly encounter delighted photographers who are wowed by such an interesting venue. Of course the photography is vital, enabling you to remember your wedding day forever. Read some rapturous reviews here: “Brunswick House has to be one of the BEST wedding venues I have photographed this year, such a unique...
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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...
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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...
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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...