Latest LASSCO News
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16 September 2009
LASSCO takes centre stage in the London Design Festival – ‘SUPER SQUAT’
Lassco Brunswick House is proud to play a central role in The London Design Festival by hosting the 'SUPER SQUAT'. Five big design names will have installations in the house from the 19th – 27th September. Please feel free to come in and gawp at pieces ranging from kinetic sculptures to teapots and of course...
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8 September 2009
All aflutter in October’s House & Garden
October's bumper issue of House & Garden showcases the new collections launched to coincide with the London Design Festival. The article, 'A Mediterranean airing', ( photographs by Jan Baldwin), about new fabrics and wallpapers features some of the many birdcages for sale at LASSCO Three Pigeons. Pictured above is a 20th century wooden, pagoda-style birdcage £55.00. ...
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28 August 2009
Bank Holiday Monday Opening
Both LASSCO Brunswick House and Three Pigeons will keep normal trading hours on the weekend and open on Bank holiday Monday from 10am – 5pm. Lassco Ropewalk will be closed Saturday – Monday, to re-open Tuesday.
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20 August 2009
Aston Martins run AMOC at Pigeons!
This Saturday the car park at LASSCO Three Pigeons will throb to the sound of a dozen Aston Martins (of different DB generations) arriving in convoy. Their owners, all members of The Aston Martin Owners Club (AMOC), are coming for brunch and a look around the spectacular Architectural Salvage on view before their next appointment at the...
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23 July 2009
Full Page in Oxford Times!
LASSCO Three Pigeons has had a glowing write-up in this week's Oxford Times: "Saving Relics of the past: Sylvia Vetta on a company wih a mission to preserve useful bits of old buildings". Sylvia clearly paid attention when she visited and packs in stories attached to a number of our current treasures including: Cabinets from the Botanic...
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16 July 2009
LASSCO in The World of Interiors
One of our rather lovely Regency style brass rim locks features in The World of Interiors this month. It's the one in the bottom right hand corner and is readily available to order for £70 + vat.
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14 July 2009
Washed Up on the LASSCO Plage
Monsieur Rushton has finished "LASSCO Plage" at The Three Pigeons in time for Bastille Day (today) ahead of this year's Paris Plage on the Seine! He shipped in some sand especially for our customers in land-locked Oxfordshire to lie back and imagine they are on the Cote d'Azur (please bring your own Speedos/bikini/towel). Feel free to bring a bottle...
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9 July 2009
The fastest milkvan in the West?
Meet the newest addition to the LASSCO family and our latest restoration project – "Ernie". Our most mechanically minded Director, Stefan Lorrett, will be moulding him into a super efficient, eco delivery dream over the coming weeks…. Watch this space…
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20 June 2009
5 Men, 64 Miles in Pink Shirts … for Cake
With the prospect of receiving FREE cake (for those arriving at LASSCO Three Pigeons via pedal power during Green transport Week) there was no stopping the boys of the MCCC. The Milton Common Cycling Club, sponsored by LASSCO Three Pigeons, were resplendent in pink this morning as they hammered up-river from LASSCO Brunswick House in...
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12 June 2009
Travel by Bike & get FREE cake!
LASSCO Three Pigeons is supporting Green Transport Week/ Bike Week, June 13 – 21 by offering FREE cake to any customer who comes for coffee by BIKE. LASSCO is all about re-use and by default anything we can do to reduce the carbon footprint of our customers is to be encouraged. http://www.bikeweek.org.uk
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8 June 2009
St. Mary-le-More, Oxfordshire
King Alfred fortified Wallingford, Oxfordshire, against marauding Danes. A nervous William the Conqueror crossed the River Thames at Wallingford on route from the Battle of Hastings to London. Oliver Cromwell had Wallingford Castle, amongst the largest in England, obliterated after the Royalists made their last stand in the town. And now, LASSCO have fallen upon St....
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2 June 2009
Garsington 2009 – The Season Starts
Once again LASSCO is proud to help sponsor the programme at this year's Garsington Opera. Garsington is only four miles from our Oxfordshire shop at Milton Common. The 2009 Season features Beethoven's "Fidelio", Gioacchino Rossini's "La Cenerentola" and Bohuslav Martinu's "Mirandolina". See www.garsingtonopera.org for more information. Please let us know if you would like to...