Category Archives: Bookcase
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19 February 2019
Golden Globes: Oscar winners
At LASSCO Three Pigeons we’ve had all kinds of fun this month salvaging “sectional bookcases” from the library of a Surrey-based Architectural Historian. Over the years, his library had got so out of control that the light-switch could only be reached by threading a broomstick through one of the many teetering mountains of architectural tomes....
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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...