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Latest LASSCO News
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12 February 2015
The Three Pigeons Beer Festival
We are delighted to invite all-comers to our first annual Beer Festival. We’ll start pouring at 11am on the Friday and keep going until 8pm on the Sunday – or until the beer runs out! Please come and join us. On Saturday evening, as you work your way through our Ale Menu with tasting...
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9 February 2015
‘Manna from Denim’,
This is just one of Damian Foxe’s beautifully photographed and art directed images in the current FT ‘how to spend it’ magazine. Featuring LASSCO’s reclaimed pine tables with tapered legs & other selected pieces. For more information or to place an order please email: ropewalk@lassco.co.uk or call 020 7501 7780. See the full article: http://howtospendit.ft.com/style/75851-denim-fashion ...
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3 February 2015
Save Spiegelhalter’s!
Adrian Amos, LASSCO Chairman writes: “One of my earliest memories was being shown Spiegelhalter’s by my father, Sid Amos, in the mid 1950s. He pointed it out as a ‘sod you’ phenomenon – the ‘independent trader’ against the powerful and corporate – hubris with built-in nemesis. Spiegelhalter’s was dear to the heart of every small businessman in...
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28 January 2015
The Return of Honest Grapes Wine Tasting
Following the success of their Autumn wine tasting event, Honest Grapes return to The Cellars at Brunswick House. Taste brand new listings from Burgundy and South America, accompanied by nibbles from the Brunswick House kitchens Information here: /www.honestgrapes.co.uk/events
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26 January 2015
The Gin Craze,
In keeping with the current gin craze LASSCO has just taken delivery of over 200 sq m of wide reclaimed pine from a Scottish gin distillery. More sobering but no less exciting newly arrived stock is this Pitch Pine Strip, reclaimed from a school in Hertfordshire with an amazing natural patina. Ready to be laid, (does not...
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22 January 2015
THE THREE PIGEONS, MILTON COMMON, OXFORDSHIRE
LASSCO moved from St. Michael’s Shoreditch to The Three Pigeons Oxfordshire in 2007. The pub we found then was in a terrible state and so were the grounds. We have brought the old Inn back to life. The bar and dining rooms are once again thronged with people – both locals and travellers – and with our Architectural Salvage displayed...
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22 January 2015
Cabinets of Curiosity – and size.
We’re delighted to receive pictures of the “Captain Cook Cabinet” that we salvaged in the summer (2014) at The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, now installed at its new home in Berlin. The mahogany monster – it is 7metres long (23ft) – had sat for over a century in the prime spot on the first floor mezzanine at...
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20 January 2015
BRUNSWICK HOUSE, VAUXHALL: A SHORT HISTORY BY STEFAN LORETT
In the eighteenth century Brunswick House (originally Belmont House) stood in five and half acres of parkland with its own jetty and a handsome frontage onto the Old Portsmouth Road. Now some two and half centuries later it casts a rueful glance at five lanes of traffic thundering past all hours of the day and...
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19 January 2015
ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS’ CHURCH, SHOREDITCH: LASSCO’S HOME 1979-2007
St. Michael & All Angels Church in Shoreditch, London EC2 was the home of LASSCO from 1979 until 2007. We were “that Architectural Salvage place in that church in East London”. It is tucked into the rabbit warren of Victorian streets that form a triangle south of where Great Eastern Street leaves the Old Street roundabout and heads towards Spitalfields....
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9 January 2015
Shining the Way: Top three vintage lighting styles
1. Opaline Pendant Lights French chateau featuring antique oak table, distressed leather sofa (via French By Design) Opaline pendants available here Dimly lit Opaline Pendants illuminated Parisian cafes and bistros at the turn of the century. And the soft, ambient light they produce is still sought after in the homes of modern romantics. Our comprehensive...
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5 January 2015
Textiles at Ropewalk,
Our textile department has grown like topsy since its inception last year. The list of stock now extends to include not just the curtains, lace panels, cushions, braid, trimmings, cushions including floor ones made from coffee sacks but apparel including smocks & military onesies from Chelsea Hospital, table linen, pelmets, tassels & baskets……As well as the...
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2 January 2015
Winter Wonderland at LASSCO Three Pigeons,
Some images from a recent fashion shoot at our Oxfordshire site. For details of the dresses please go to www.mongas.co.uk. If you are interested in using LASSCO Three Pigeons as a location for film or photography please contact us.