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Category Archives: Historic
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1 August 2014
New at LASSCO Ropewalk
More of the retro Swedish ‘pig lamps’ and half a dozen stonking enamel factory lights from the Czech Republic. The largest couple are 75cm high! All re-wired and tested. More info in the links below. https://www.lassco.co.uk/a-retro-swedish-pig-lamp-grislampa https://www.lassco.co.uk/a-vintage-czech-enamel-factory-light https://www.lassco.co.uk/a-vintage-czech-enamel-factory-light-53374 https://www.lassco.co.uk/a-retro-swedish-pig-lamp-grislampa-53372
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29 July 2014
The Stuarts at LASSCO Brunswick House?!
Presented by Dr Clare Jackson of Cambridge University, this new three-part series argues that the Stuarts, more than any other, were Britain’s defining royal family. Some of episode two was filmed upstairs in the Saloon at LASSCO Brunswick House last summer. With Anglo-Scottish relations in the spotlight and with the Palace of Westminster only a...
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24 June 2014
Nature Morte,
These images are from the Summer 2014 issue of Schön! Magazine, a London based fashion, arts and culture quarterly, published in 13 countries. The shoot is a fashion accessories still life story, inspired by the paintings of the 17th Century Baroque artist Daniel Seghers & shows a different use of LASSCO stock. ...
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30 May 2014
LASSCO in the press,
Here’s a small selection of some of our stock as featured in June’s colour press. Clockwise from top left: World of Interiors ( candlesticks) , Germany’s Architectural Digest (gilt cabinet), Livingetc (urn & planter) & Period Living (road sign). You might also like the M&S blog starring Keeley Hawes shot at LASSCO Ropewalk: http://www.marksandspencer.com/c/style-and-living/in-the-moment
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18 March 2014
Architectural origami
The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (SAW), the London School of Economics’ ( LSE) latest landmark building, is the first new building it has commissioned in over 40 years. SAW’s dramatic sculptural form and unusual perforated brick façade, designed by Irish architect O’Donnell + Tuomey has been garnering praise from students, staff and architecture critics alike since opening earlier...
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20 November 2013
Historic Asylum Railing Unearthed
We have identified the origin of some fabulous Georgian cast iron gateposts and railings, boldly cast with distinctive “anthemia” – the honeysuckle motif invented by the ancients and favoured by the Georgians. The gateposts and their accompanying railings were once a well-known landmark on one of London’s busiest thoroughfares: The Old Kent Road. They are...