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Category Archives: modern salvage

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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“)...

  • 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’.      

  • 1 September 2014

    History, texture, interest…..timber cladding from LASSCO Ropewalk,

      Timber cladding (also referred to as wall boarding & wall cladding ) is seen repeatedly worldwide on both residential and commercial buildings of all shapes and sizes and design aesthetics. Some are rustic, some are planed to within an inch of their life and are very precise and contemporary. But timber cladding does not have to...

  • 8 August 2014

    Stepney Way Beam Pine,

    Stepney Way Beam Pine is  LASSCO shorthand for remilled Principal Joists salvaged from mid 19th Century London commercial buildings. Our first batch came from Stepney Way in the eponymous East End parish. These were large cross section timbers resawn in our sawmills to yield superb and characterful wide boards.  The vast majority of pine used in...

  • 8 August 2014

    “Hold Very Tightly!” (ding,ding!) UPDATE: **SOLD**

     Along the Dorset coast from Christchurch and the Undercliffe Road to Boscombe Pier and the beach at Bournemouth, the “Boscombe Beach Bus”, in its jolly yellow livery, would have been busy at this time of year. It was known locally as the “Lily Langtry” and on sunny summer days in the late 1950’s would have...

  • 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  

  • 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      

  • 22 July 2014

    Coastal modern salvage at LASSCO Ropewalk,

      It’s that time of the year again,  when we dream of the sea-side and plan to motor to the coast.   Other coastal stock includes driftwood at LASSCO Brunswick House as well as a print of one of the great English sea-side towns of the 19th century, Ramsgate.

  • 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.  ...