Latest LASSCO News
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10 October 2014
Tom Kerridge and LASSCO Ropewalk,
Hurry on along to our Bermondsey shop to get these meat posters before Tom Kerridge and his team do! You can see others he’s sourced from LASSCO Ropewalk at his pub in Marlow, The Hand & Flowers. The only pub in the UK to have two Michelin stars. These 1960s posters which are framed and ready to hang,...
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8 October 2014
Daily Telegraph: We’re a “Top 50 Interiors Store”
LASSCO Three Pigeons is chuffed to be included in The Daily Telegraph’s “Top 50 Interiors Stores”. To be rubbing shoulders with The Conran Shop, Habitat and Heal’s is extremely gratifying! “LASSCO By combining showroom with restaurant, the Oxfordshire outpost of this architectural-salvage outfit repeats the trick of its Vauxhall location. It is also the place...
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2 October 2014
Featured in The Oxford Times
Watch out for The Oxford Times this week. The colour supplement has quite a comprehensive feature on LASSCO Three Pigeons with an interview with the shop manager Anthony Reeve. Most of what he says is true. There’s an alarming number of pictures of him – popping up behind railings, sidling into view by a phone...
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30 September 2014
Uncle Monty’s Library
Perhaps the most pivotal scene of the film “Withnail and I”, Bruce Robinson’s 1987 cult masterpiece, is the visit of the two protagonists, a pair of hopeless and drunk out-of-work actors in 1969 London, to “Uncle Monty’s” Chelsea house. Their plan was to persuade the rather portly, extremely posh, lascivious and very mad middle-aged bachelor to...
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24 September 2014
Wine tasting evening in The Cellar Rooms at Brunswick House
Honest Grapes will be hosting an Autumn wine tasting evening in The Cellar Rooms at Brunswick House. Accompanied by a fine selection of canapes from Brunswick House Restaurant. The date is Monday 6th October 2014. Follow this link for more information: http://www.honestgrapes.co.uk/news-events/autumn-tasting/
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22 September 2014
Brunswick House: setting for a thriller
When Len Deighton was writing “SS-GB” in 1978 – his spy-thriller set in the 1940’s and in a London that had succumbed to Nazi invasion – he would have relished the foggy railway yard and bleak urban landscape that Nine Elms then was: a setting for a gritty denouement. Deighton, the celebrated historian, cook and...
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15 September 2014
Just wheeled in at LASSCO Ropewalk,
1920s steel medical cabinet. By James Woolley Sons & Co. Ltd, Manchester. Comes with three glass internal shelves, a working door lock and key, and nickel plated fittings. Original paint. It’s rare to find these not stripped and burnished these days so we don’t expect this one to be with us long…. Dimensions: 164cm (64½“)...
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2 September 2014
Modern Rustic,
This wavy-edge yew coffee table for sale at LASSCO Brunswick House was described as a ‘gem’ in last week’s Sunday Times Property Supplement of the Year, ‘HOME’.
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1 September 2014
A visual feast at LASSCO Brunswick House & Three Pigeons,
The UK’s biggest Asian wedding title, Asiana, recently used our Vauxhall premises as a location for a huge fashion shoot. Incorporating bridal fashion, features, wedding planning and an essential Wedding Directory, no Asian bride in the UK gets married without it. Meanwhile, at LASSCO Three Pigeons there’s more brides lurking in the...
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1 September 2014
History, texture, interest…..timber cladding from LASSCO Ropewalk,
Timber cladding (also referred to as wall boarding & wall cladding ) is seen repeatedly worldwide on both residential and commercial buildings of all shapes and sizes and design aesthetics. Some are rustic, some are planed to within an inch of their life and are very precise and contemporary. But timber cladding does not have to...
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28 August 2014
There’s a hitch…
Please be aware that this Saturday 30th August at Brunswick House, the shop and restaurant will be closing early at 3pm. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Our fabulous interior is once again lending itself to a special occasion and we need to make ready, so please come and see us but don’t leave...
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8 August 2014
Stepney Way Beam Pine,
Stepney Way Beam Pine is LASSCO shorthand for remilled Principal Joists salvaged from mid 19th Century London commercial buildings. Our first batch came from Stepney Way in the eponymous East End parish. These were large cross section timbers resawn in our sawmills to yield superb and characterful wide boards. The vast majority of pine used in...