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Latest LASSCO News
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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...
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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...
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30 August 2016
Bill Posters will be Prosecuted
Day one of any graphic design course today probably includes a warning to pupils about using too many typefaces in their work. The Victorians however reveled in having their typesetter go through the full gamut of typography in order to fill their advertisements with vibrant and punchy proclamations in all available fonts and typefaces. From...
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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...
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4 August 2016
‘GO!’ #LDF2016 at LASSCO Ropewalk 17th – 25th Sept
LASSCO presents ‘GO!’ a series of three product showcases each focusing on the potential of reclaimed materials and an environmentally conscious approach to design, hosted by LASSCO Ropewalk. Designers Josefin Landalv, Alfred Newall and Emily Griffin have been invited to launch three unique capsule collections at LASSCO Ropewalk, London’s original salvage yard, from the 17th to the...
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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...
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25 May 2016
Pigeon Post
Pigeon Post: News from LASSCO Three Pigeons The final room of the recent Historic England Exhibition “Out There – Post War Public Art” at Somerset House ended with a mournful list of notable public sculpture that has, to date, been “Sold, Lost, Destroyed or Stolen”. This was a rather down-beat end to a show that had...
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3 May 2016
Complete Guide to Maltby Street Market
The Maltby Street Market just might be London’s most unambitious food market. The brainchild of the creative minds of LASSCO Ropewalk, the unadvertised weekend food market is more of a way to discover unique food and enjoy Bermondsey than to draw in the large crowds seen at other markets. The functioning architectural salvage lumberyard during the...
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21 April 2016
God Save The Queen
LASSCO offers its loyal greetings in the day of Her Majesty’s 90th birthday. Long may she reign.
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7 April 2016
For the Record
Charles Wheeler is a sculptor who we are rather fond of – an article “Missing in Action: Charles Wheeler’s Post War Architectural Sculpture”, concerning his work was recently posted on “3rd Dimension”, the on-line Magazine and Newsletter for the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA) and can be viewed in its original location here. We were delighted...
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14 March 2016
Wall to Wall Coverage
You, like us, may have been enjoying the nascent “Reclaim” magazine – not least due to the rather generous amount of its pages that are devoted to the LASSCO shops. Last month was a nicely written piece on the history of LASSCO and an interview with Adrian Amos. This month we got the front cover! The supply...
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7 March 2016
Spring Feasting at Brunswick House
The Spring menus are here! Seasonal private dining in beautiful surroundings at Brunswick House: A salad of early spring vegetables including roasted beets and Clarence Court eggs followed by 7 hour lamb shoulder, polished off with a mess of meringue, rhubarb & ginger £40 per head or A starter of Cornish crab salad, a main of roast sirloin...