Category Archives: london
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5 January 2015
Textiles at Ropewalk,
Our textile department has grown like topsy since its inception last year. The list of stock now extends to include not just the curtains, lace panels, cushions, braid, trimmings, cushions including floor ones made from coffee sacks but apparel including smocks & military onesies from Chelsea Hospital, table linen, pelmets, tassels & baskets……As well as the...
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13 November 2014
Where did the time go?
New Covent Garden Market celebrates its 40th anniversary this week. LASSCO Brunswick House, less than a stone’s throw away, sends congratulations. Just like LASSCO Brunswick House the Market sees different things going on every week, photographic shoots, concerts, wine tastings. Nine Elms continues to see it all! If you want a piece of related market paraphernalia...
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7 November 2014
Quilts, craft or art?
We spend a third of our lives asleep so it’s understandable that quilts are usually associated with beds. But are they just pieces of craft work to sleep under or pieces of art to hang on our walls? Today many link the act of stitching together layers of fabric in patterns to make a type of blanket with southern...
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4 November 2014
A French metal butcher’s apron,
French metal butcher’s apron made from small rounded rectangular aluminum plates that are connected by stainless steel rings, which gives the apron flexibility; adjustable canvas shoulder and waist straps. Stamped Ultra Lamex. Just delivered to LASSCO Ropewalk. Only one, only £220 82cm (32¼“) x 57cm (22½“) Other related modern vintage stock for carniscenti available from LASSCO includes a selection of Butchers...
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20 October 2014
Autumn Sale,
Remarkable reductions on a selection of stock at LASSCO Brunswick House. https://www.lassco.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/index/?p=1&q=autumn+sale Open 7 days a week. Also: Clearance Sale Now On at LASSCO Three Pigeons … See Current Sale items HERE.
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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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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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5 August 2014
Prince Jefri of Brunei’s scagliola columns,
LASSCO has in stock eleven fine scagliola columns made for Prince Jefri of Brunei. In imitation of the rarest of marbles, Convent Siena and Russian Malachite they were made by Hayles & Howe for one of London’s twentieth century most remarkable and ill fated follies – the conversion of the Playboy Club in Park Lane...
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4 August 2014
Salvage Savvy,
Britain’s best-selling Period Homes magazine, Period Living, has a regular section called Salvage Savvy written by Jackie Herald. September’s issue is about boot scrapers. She chose this wonderful Arts and Crafts cast-iron boot scraper from LASSCO Ropewalk. Further information about boot scrapers here: http://www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/rise-and-fall-of-the-bootscraper-2341628.html
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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...