Latest LASSCO News
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28 August 2019
Specialists Pick: Snakes in a Frame
Occasionally our specialists discover a selection of items that deserve longer in the spotlight than our Latest Stock page allows. This time around, print expert Graham Hilleard, has brought to your attention a selection of snake engravings produced by Eighteenth century journalist John Wilkes. The Dart Snake of Ceylon By the time John Wilkes...
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22 August 2019
Hidden Stock: Top 3 Most Dazzling Cut Glass Chandeliers
With such a vast expanse of highly decorated chandeliers – each one with its own teardrops and scrolled arms, glass pendants, moulded and cut glass droplets – it can be a trial to pin point the correct one for your home. In an effort to make things easier our specialists have picked their Top 3....
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20 August 2019
Ropewalk Concessions: Learn to Labour and Wait
LASSCO Ropewalk has begun to introduce a range of carefully selected pop-ups to our arch, No. 37 Maltby Street. The concessions will focus on a slower, more sustainable approach to retail in which the focus is quality, use of materials and Made In England where-ever possible. All created to last a lifetime or more. ...
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13 August 2019
Hidden Stock: Top 5 Most Arresting Print Collections
With so many long and diverse runs of immediately eye catching prints in stock it can be difficult, at times, to pinpoint the most appropriate and cohesive collections for your home. We’ve cut through our entire inventory to bring you our Top 5 Staff Picks.
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5 August 2019
Ropewalk Concessions: The Bronze Age With Mark Lewis
Ropewalk Concessions From mid July LASSCO Ropewalk will begin to introduce a range of carefully selected pop-ups to our arch, No. 37 Maltby Street. The concessions will focus on a slower, more sustainable approach to retail in which the focus is quality, use of materials and Made In England where-ever possible. All created to last...
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1 August 2019
Specialists Pick: The Finest Regency Chimneypieces
Specialists Pick Occasionally our specialists will be asked to recommend to our customers the best of the best, from timber cladding to fine silver. Design and Decoration expert, Chris Martin highlights his personal preference when it comes to the architectural element that can be found at the centre of some of the grandest rooms in Great...
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29 July 2019
Ropewalk Concessions: Keeping the Aspidestra flying
Ropewalk Concessions Since mid July LASSCO Ropewalk has begun to introduce a range of carefully selected pop-ups to our arch, No. 37 Maltby Street. The concessions will focus on a slower, more sustainable approach to retail in which the focus is quality, use of materials and Made In England where-ever possible. Introducing… Forest...
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8 July 2019
Specialist’s Pick: The Widest, Oldest Wooden Boards
Specialists Pick Occasionally our specialists will be asked to recommend to our customers the best of the best, from timber cladding to fine silver. Wood expert, Harry Amos highlights his personal preference when it comes to variance within the most sought after flooring material in Great Britain: Wide, antique timber. Georgian Pine Harry Amos reflects...
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5 July 2019
Ropewalk Concessions: Homeware that improves lives
Ropewalk Concessions From mid July LASSCO Ropewalk will begin to introduce a range of carefully selected pop-ups to our arch, No. 37 Maltby Street. The concessions will focus on a slower, more sustainable approach to retail in which the focus is quality, use of materials and Made In England where-ever possible. All created to last...
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24 June 2019
Runners Report: Lost Everyman House Cladding Recovered
Wavy, pink, white brass A LASSCO architectural salvage runner has revealed to us that he has in his possession a shining example of London’s Modernist past that was believed to be lost over a decade ago. The complete facade, excluding Swedish Black granite, made up Gainsborough and Everyman House. The reclaimed material in question...
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12 June 2019
A Glorious Revolution: The Wheelergate Ceiling
In 1998 “Salvo News”, the trade newspaper for the Architectural Salvage trade, ran a small piece detailing the plight of a very old chopped-up plaster ceiling – stacked in the stables of a house in Derbyshire. Peter Hone, these days LASSCO’s consultant Plaster Caster, who has never been able to resist any such opportunity, leapt...
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11 June 2019
SALON WEDNESDAY’S, 12th JUNE: Decorative Plasterwork, Yesterday and Today
Join Simon Willcox of Locker & Riley as they analyse the detailed work that goes into this historic architectural practise. Decorative Plasterwork – Yesterday and Today.