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 ALSCOT BATHROOM SALE
Norman Cockroft's Alscot Bathrooms is planning a relocation sale on Saturday 2 July 2011 at Catherine-de-Barnes, Solihull, to be held by Wellers Auctioneers. The preliminary announcement from Glen Snelgar of Wellers Auctioneers states, 'Alscot Bathroom Company is a supplier and restorer of period and modern bathroom suites and fittings. The auction will consist of the entire stock in trade of original Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco and discounted bathroom suites and fittings. An online catalogue will be available on Thursday 23rd June.'
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 ANTIQUE WHITE MARBLE SCULPTURE PLUMMETS IN POLARISED SUMMERS PLACE SALE
The Summers Place garden antique and modern sale provides a benchmark for how the wealthy choose to spend their money. "At this sale traditionalists wanted that weathered rustic look with plenty of moss, and the modernists went for clean-looking contemporary pieces but no-one seemed to want good antique white marble sculpture. Earlier this year we did the stats and two of the world's six wealthiest people, and twenty per cent of Britain's Sunday Times rich list are our customers," said James Rylands, auctioneer in charge, explaining how taste at the very top is reflected in their sales.
The Trade consigned fifty per cent of the lots to the sale, but they only bought around five per cent - all the top lots were bought privately, mostly by USA and European bidders. Six of the top ten lots were contemporary sculpture. Around sixty to seventy per cent of lots sold abroad.
"We're happy with the mix," said Mr. Rylands. "It has been getting harder to find nice early things, and a lot more clients are wanting modern stuff. There was a noticeable fizz in the marquee this time, and some serious competitive bidding for modern lots and good quality antique. For example, Enzo Plazzotta's Dieter's Foal sold for £53,300 - more than three times the estimate - and a pair of gritstone urns by Jan Pieter van Bauerscheit the Elder doubled up also at £53,300."
A Coalbrookdale horsechestnut pattern bench sold for £10,000 (est £4,000) while two Arras chairs and a bench made £4,437 (est £1,500), two bronze Meiji cranes sold for £16,100 (est £2,500-4,000), a run of 66ft of c1900 Ham stone balustrade with volute butresses failed to sell at £9k estimate and neither did 23ft of Portland and compo balustrade and associated bits and pieces for £150, a pair of repro compo William Kent 'Pope' urns sold for £6,912, a pair of early 20thC J P White Pavenham lead urns sold for £937, top of thirteen mainly Victorian sundials was a modern repro bronze armillary on a carved limestone pedestal which sold for £4,750, and lastly a replica in Jesmonite of a 38ins high cast of Flora after Blashfield sold for £1,562 (est £600).
Live Auction Sale Results: Garden Antique and Modern
The Walled Garden, Billingshurst, West Sussex, Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Grand Total: £882,850
Lots offered: 119
Percentage of lots sold: 63 per cent
Top ten lots:
1. An impressive set of four terracotta conservatory groups representing the Seasons, French 19th century. Lot 65 sold for £144,500 (est £120,000-180,000) to USA Private.
2. An important pair of gritstone lidded urns on pedestals by Jan Pieter van Bauerscheit the Elder. Lot 8 sold for £53,300 (est £25,000-40,000) to a USA Private.
3. Enzo Plazzotta: Dieter's Foal, Bronze. Lot 90 sold for £53,300 (est £15,000-20,000) to a UK Private.
4. A pair of carved limestone armorial lions. Lot 13 sold for £36,500 (est £30,000-50,000) to a USA Private.
5. Wilfred Pritchard, Born 1970: Homage to Matisse, (The Dance), bronze. Lot 102 sold for £36,500 (est £20,000-30,000) to a European Private
6. Nigel Boonham: Kissing Bridge, bronze. Lot 110 sold for £35,300 (est £25,000-35,000) to a UK Private.
7. Isaac Kahn, Born Lithuania 1950: The Family, bronze. Lot 105 sold for £34,100 (est £30,000-40,000) to a UK Private.
8. Oscar Lenz (1874-1912): Echo, Bronze. Lot 072 sold for £26,900 (est £15,000-18,000) to a UK Private
9. Ann Vrielinck, Born 1966: Fantasize, bronze. Lot 081 sold for £20,900 (est £6,000-8,000) to a European Private.
10 John van Nost: A lead sundial in the form of a kneeling figure of North America. Lot 11 sold for £19,700 (est £4,000-6,000) to a US Private.
Prices include Buyers Premium, which is 25% on the first £10,000 and then 20% up to £250,000
The next auction of Garden Statuary and Fossil Decoration will be on October 19, 2011,
continued by the Sealed Bid Auction on October 21, 2011.
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WELLERS AUCTIONEERS SPONSOR SALVO FAIR AND PLAN A SATURDAY AUCTION
Wellers Auctioneers Ltd is pleased to announce that it is an official sponsor of this year's Salvo Fair, where it will be promoting its salvage auction services in a hospitality marquee during the Fair which takes place in the grounds of Knebworth House, Herts over the weekend of 24th-26th June.
In addition, Wellers plans to hold an auction during the Fair itself which will take place at 1.00pm on Saturday 25th June. Fair exhibitors and the trade are invited to consign lots of architectural antiques, reclaimed materials and fixtures and fittings by Friday 17th June. All entries must be accompanied by digital pictures of the lots themselves and should be sent to glen@wellersauctions. com or terry@wellersauctions. com.
Bidders who cannot attend the sale are invited to participate remotely by pre-registering their interest at www .i-bidder. com. In practice this systems allows a bidder to attend an auction from the comfort of their own home whilst fully participating in the auction process. They will be able to hear the auctioneer take bids from the room, see the items themselves, track the prices achieved and place a real time bid!
Selling commission of 10% will be donated to Salvo's nominated charity Médecins Sans Frontières.
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 NOT JUST ANY OLD RUBBISH
Eat your heart out Albert Steptoe: architects and clients alike are seeking discarded materials for their buildings, driven by environmental concerns, the recession and the look of it. But it's more than cosmetic: if you want to use recycled stuff in your project you'll have to start thinking differently about design.
When Martin Pawley wrote Garbage Housing in 1975 he thought of using all sorts of consumer waste, from car tyres and body parts, the Heineken World Bottle which stacked as a brick and newsprint cores. But there's an easier way: use waste from the construction industry.
Some of this is very simple, you just need to specify the right thing; recycled steel, PFA in your concrete or ground glass as an aggregate. But at the next level down, mainly small projects with private clients, it gets more direct. Ebay, Salvoweb, BuilderScrap, local skips, your own reject pile and the contractor's other sites are the main sources for this sort of project. At the moment it tends to be driven by ideology, or the idea of saving money on materials - it requires dedication, investigation, thinking on your feet and plenty of design flexibility.
eBay house
Architect Andrew Mulroy started what he calls the eBay house at the insistence of a sustainably-informed client on a tight budget. Mulroy took the north London refurbishment through planning to tender drawings and has been kept on as a consultant. The client hopes to save 25-30% on capital costs by scouring the web and local streets for the right materials.
Mulroy and his team are on call to help with buying decisions as the auction starts to count down. Their 'target response time' is 25 minutes. You have to seize the moment, and the material. The questions include calculating quantities - how many square metres will half a kilo of insulation cover? (On the advice of insurers everything is appropriately caveated.) A back window came from eBay for £75. Quick decision making is often needed for recycled items: it's this size and colour or keep looking.
Searching locally has been rewarding. Similar houses nearby share dimensions and materials. A rotten window frame was easily replaced from a scrap heap by a large sliding door from a nearby 1930s home - it just needed new glass. Other local finds include roof tiles. Mulroy's client drives round with his own rubbish in a trailer and swaps it for things he fancies in local skips. It is a neat if legally questionable way to avoid skip costs, and garners a lot of material in small quantities. 'It is amazing how much Kingspan insulation you can find in skips,' says Mulroy. Any little gaps are stuffed with it. Timber from the site is reused and hard core kept in the garden for a future planned extension.
Plenty of specification detail is needed when you are having to weigh the options quickly and decide whether a cheap alternative meets the brief. Mulroy has learnt what sort of detail tender drawings must provide for someone sourcing their own, highly variable, materials. Looking back he thinks that instead of giving a product name he might have given more detail on other approved products, dimensions and u-values. 'It means my client can go shopping,' he explains . 'I'd write a more performance based spec.'
Architects have to be flexible about how they think but so do building control officers. Meeting problems with building control is par for the course with salvage materials. Buying multifoil insulation shouldn't be complicated, but if it is not on the local authority approved list it can't go in. On a previous job Mulroy had this problem with Celco, which had to have an extra 'approved' layer laid on top before the ceilings were closed up. 'We should have gone down the approved inspectors' route,' he says ruefully.
New way of working
Walking into Manalo & White's London office the language is something between vintage shop and jumble sale. Phenolic ply and auctioned table legs of various shapes make the work bench, tea is served in floral tea cups and there is a mixture of wooden kitchen chairs. Much of Manalo & White's work has been slick high-end houses, floating acrylic, entrance waterfalls, endless upgrades. But a Suffolk extension, a canal cruising club and Seabank, a holiday home in north Norfolk for the family of architecture writer and academic Jeremy Till, have given the practice some projects more in tune with their thinking.
Till wanted a place that wasn't too 'architecty' and didn't want to be involved in every little decision. Reusing as much as possible from the existing building seemed a good way to work. 'It needed a lot of tolerance,' says Brian Greathead, 'Both physical and dimensional. You couldn't impose your will.' Control also had to be ceded on price, as guessing the cost of fitting is fraught with problems - how long will denailing take for example? And then, if you miss a few nails, you lose a saw blade or two.
One of the biggest resources was the waste from the tumbledown cottage. 'We developed a process,' says Greathead. 'We had a garden full of stuff, whenever we needed something we'd wander round and pick up stuff.' Old doors were rehung, and where they were too short a piece of wood was added to the top. And enough Norfolk pamment tiles were rescued to roughly line the stove enclosure (nowhere near the flat surface Manalo & White's drawings had shown).
'You have to talk to those on site and trust them. There is increased collaboration and a quite different authorship to the building,' says Greathead. He realised that the builders had really bought into the idea when he found one of them screwing a handle they carved from a floorboard into the larder door. It sometimes required a leap of faith. A call from the builder suggesting old floorboards were used with rust marks visible on the doors rather than black side out put Greathead on the spot. A decision was needed quickly but he was miles away and mobile reception didn't allow for sending of a photo. Greathead went with the builder's recommendation ('it looks like a leopard'). It also brought extra responsibility for the builders: the search for a basin seemed to have ended when one was discovered under a piece of plastic in the garden, its ceramic upstand making it just perfect. So when one of the builders dropped and smashed it he offered to look round reclaim yards for a replacement.
For small jobs scraps and leftovers can be like gold dust, but in a supplier's yard they are often overlooked. Greathead wanted glazed bricks for the bathroom, but for rounded edges on the shower and the edge of the bath that meant expensive made-to-order bull nosed bricks. Manalo & White phoned around brick yards in search of leftovers, pleading with people to go and check what they had. The 40 matching burgundy he finally found weren't really the colour he wanted, but they were cheap and the bull nosed were the same price as the glazed brick - and have become a much loved feature.
On a house extension in Walberswick Greathead and the client agreed to clad it in a local vernacular, wainey-edged elm weatherboarding. But instead of slim boards the local timber supplier offered an unwanted run of very wide timber. 'It was very butch, like elephant skin,' says Greathead. It took a whole new language of chunkier detailing to fix it and ensure the flashings projected out over it. Inside old groins were cut up for stair and landing with rope from Salvoweb as handrail and balustrade improvised by the builder (a mini Stonehenge of offcuts). 'It is not always to my taste,' admits Greathead. 'But they like it.'
St Pancras cruising club has commissioned Manalo & White to design it a new clubhouse near London's King's Cross. It could be the perfect client for public recycled building. 'They have a miniscule budget, tolerance for a rough aesthetic and are on the edge of the largest building site in Europe,' says Greathead enthusiastically. He has been to inspect the old sheds of salvaged material on the King's Cross Central site. There are bags and bags of materials saved under the station's planning obligations. Looking at them has started to suggest an aesthetic. There are fire bucket holders, thousands of granite setts and cast iron columns, all reusable. Each comes with its drawbacks, the columns would need testing and setts are expensive to lay - but Greathead thinks the club members might take this on.
With 50 buildings planned for King's Cross Central there are plenty of potential homes for the reclaimed material. Structures nearing completion at the moment include Stanton Williams' building for Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design and the Western Transit Shed, which have been repaired using bricks removed from elsewhere. Extra timber flooring has been used as cover panels above the glazed windows at each level within the atrium of the Granary building and horse troughs, cobbles, capstans and historic turntables will be placed across the public realm.
Budgetary constraints, planning obligations, landfill taxes, the Waste Resources Action Programme (Wrap) and a little lateral thinking are applying elements of this salvage approach to larger buildings, though less visibly. AHMM's Angel building in north London for Derwent London reused the existing concrete frame while Henley Halebrown Rorrison built its Goole arts centre on existing foundations. At Sandal Magna Primary School in Wakefield demolished bricks from the old school became gabion fill in Sarah Wigglesworth's design.
Of course patching materials from many sources runs the risk of creating a visual hotpotch. But it can bringer a richer, deeper palette that speaks of time, decay and a certain wabi sabi modesty. For architects tired of replacing a kitchen with a more up to date one it can ameliorate the sense of endless, depressing consumption.
Eleanor Young is executive editor of the RIBA Journal
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 NEWS FROM MASCO WALCOT
Masco Walcot's latest newsletter shows some of its prestige architectural antique stock items - an impressive 14ft reading table from the British Museum with bronze lamps and green leather top, marbles from the old Lloyds of London building, a fabulous gilt bronze balustrade from the Dorchester Hotel, and a Beaux Arts Portland stone entranceway and set of carved relief panels depicting the history of the De Beers company, the world's biggest diamond traders.
Three months ago Steve Tomlin, CEO of Masco Walcot, gave a signature talk without notes to the Institute of Demolition Engineers - the lion's den he called it - promoting reuse over recycling, and explaining why the salvage sector has failed to keep pace with the demolition industry, and how things might be in future in a serious of very salient points. The video was made by Mark Anthony.
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 TOO MAD FOR LAURENCE LLEWELLYN-BOWEN, BUT MAD ENOUGH FOR SALVO FAIR
Meanwhile, back in the UK, I finally got around to looking at this old recorded programme of 'House Gift' with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. This is one of those shows that make you realise that being unemployed is no picnic. No money, no future and stuff like this to fill your days. Anyway, the premise of 'House Gift' is that sundry house owners who have no taste or style call in Laurence and his two random girl designers to show them the way with new knick knacks, ornaments and various dust gatherers.
Lawrence came and visited our warehouse to see if there was something unusual and unique for this one beige-strapped couple and ultimately decided that our stuff was simply too unusual and unique. Sigh. As he presented Gavin and Stacey, or whatever their names were, with a picture frame, a lava lamp, or something, he made it clear what a narrow escape they had had. Cheers for that Larry.
In the lower photo, as evinced by his expression, he explains how you'd pretty much have to be mad to put our furniture into a normal home… Still, he was very friendly to our folks here, signed a card and brought a fleeting sense of showbiz glamour to the farm. Fantastic hair as well.
[Chancellors will be appearing at Salvo Fair again this year, the only salvage business which has pitched out at all eleven since 1997 - Ed]
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PIMLICO PLUMBERS TAKING DONATIONS OF OLD LOOS FOR MUSEUM
Pimlico Plumbers is on the search for classic 'Crappers' and plumbing icons for its new museum.
As part of a £1 million refurbishment of its depot in Sail Street, Lambeth, the company is creating a small museum, which will feature a selection of bathroom and kitchen equipment and appliances from the past 150 years.
The company, which is renowned for its celebrity client list, is calling on people from across the UK who may have items they can donate, loan or sell, which can be put on display.
These could include Victorian toilets, art-deco basins from the 1930s and early electric washing machines.
Entry to the museum will be free, but there will be a collection box for donations, which will be divided between Pimlico Plumbers' chosen charities, which include the Rhys Daniels' Trust.
The Trust provides 'home from home' accommodation close to hospitals for parents of seriously ill children.
Among the items already secured for the museum are several Thomas Crapper originals as well as some early example of Victorian plumbing tools.
Charlie Mullins, Managing Director of Pimlico Plumbers, said: "I'm sure there are loads of classic loos, historic sinks and retro-white goods that could take pride of place in our museum that will celebrate our industry and support our ongoing charity work.
"Plumbing is the world's second oldest profession and the skills and innovations of the industry have touched everyone's lives. We want to showcase a range of iconic and quirky exhibits that will demonstrate the ingenuity of engineers and bring back memories for our visitors."
The donation or loan of items can be made by contacting our own 'Super' Mario Rebellato at Pimlico Plumbers on mrebellato(at)pimlicoplumbers(dot)com with a photo of the item and any description of its history.
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 SALVO FAIR 2011: BOATANALIA GALORE!
Sailing enthusiast, Guy Trench from Antiques by Design is bringing along to Salvo Fair at Knebworth a new selection of items made from reclaimed, including mirrors made from port holes and life rings, and lamps made from a ships block, fishing float and bronze yacht winch.
New exhibitors, Trinity Marine from Exeter, will be exhibiting a real live yellow submarine - a Remote Controlled Mine Disposal Vehicle RCMDV Mk 1, and one of several they have in stock. Having spent their service lives on board Hunt and Sandown class Minehunters, the submarines have had colourful careers and served on some of the finest HMS ships. They come with their own service history folders and one will be on sale for £850 plus vat at Salvo Fair.
Salvo Fair, 24 - 26 June 2011
Knebworth House, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AX
Tel: 01225 422300
TRADE DAY: Friday 24 June 2011 11am-4pm Admission £15
PUBLIC DAYS: Saturday 25 - Sunday 26 June 2011 11am-4pm Admission £8, Family ticket £28
Saturday and Sunday tickets in advance from Knebworth House website (10% discount)
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 FIRST TRAINEES OF HERITAGE BLACKSMITHING
The National Heritage Ironwork Group's (NHIG) first eight trainees, selected from applicants from all over the UK, on their Heritage Blacksmiths Bursary training programme will start on the 23rd May. These semi-skilled blacksmiths, six men and two women, will be the first to receive one year of specialised Blacksmith Conservator training as part of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) 'Skills for the Future' programme.
It has long been recognised that our Heritage Ironwork has suffered from a lack of readily available trained and skilled practitioners in conservation practice and although there are several high quality firms specialising in restoration ironwork the size of our ironwork heritage is so vast it means that inappropriate and damaging processes and treatments are being applied countrywide to often unique and irreplaceable artefacts almost on a daily basis.
The NHIG Heritage Blacksmith Bursary has been put in place to address this need by providing the beginnings of a skilled and experienced cohort of practitioners able to not only work on sensitive ironwork artefacts but also work effectively with fellow professionals in the field. It is an advanced training program that broadens the skills and experience of blacksmiths involved in historic ironwork repairs by bringing together the best of blacksmithing craft practise and the philosophy and ethics of conservation.
44 year old bursary student Alexander Coode said; 'I am passionate about the heritage of ironwork and feel that the protection of antique ironwork is of vital importance for the conservation of heritage sites and am keen to play whatever role is possible in support of this aim. I believe that the completion of the Heritage Blacksmith course would be an invaluable asset in establishing the necessary benchmarks to be followed in undertaking any future restoration project.'
The course is a one year full time commitment catering for eight students per year, with a total number of sixteen, over the two year programme. It provides real and relevant training by being made up of a series of practical skill based and conservation based work placements. The first placement is at Hampton Court Palace where they will gain practical experience of ironwork conservation and holding repair works under the supervision of a specialist conservator. In July they will learn pure conservation in a museum environment, at Hereford Museum, The Royal Armouries and Birmingham Museum where amongst other things they will have the chance to work on the Staffordshire Hoard of mediaeval goldsmiths' work. Thereafter the students will visit a number of established blacksmiths' workshops for periods of on-the-job training. Chris Topp & Co based in Tholthorpe and Carlton Husthwaite will host all eight of this years students between July and May 2012.
The bursary programme has been enhanced by the inclusion of a five week block release course in the conservation of ironwork at Hereford College of Technology (HCT) - the leading British training establishment for forge work skills. The HCT syllabus has been specially developed to complement the work based learning in order that the student receives a holistic education programme with essential underpinning knowledge. Trainees will attend HCT for one week at a time between workshop placement swaps.
The bursary will culminate in the achievement of the NHIG Award for Blacksmithing Conservation. This is a competency work based award covering specialist units in forge work conservation which formally offers students the opportunity to demonstrate the skills gained during the course. The award standards are derived from Construction Skills National Occupation Standards for Heritage skills level 3 blacksmithing option route with an assessment process that reflects the accepted NVQ Level 3 model. This is aimed at ensuring long lasting value and recognition of the qualification gained and the possibility of linkage to any future courses that are developed from this programme after it has ended.
The college part of this programme is seen as the first step in the process of developing and building a permanent heritage blacksmithing training route. Although current funding will run out after two years the project is intended to be the pump priming for an ongoing requirement for training and a qualification in the sector. This is seen as a requirement at present in other built heritage craft sectors when engaging individuals / companies and the field of heritage ironwork deserves no less. NHIG are not alone in this view and are proud to announce that having reviewed our training plan English Heritage have endorsed this programme.
Bill Martin, Conservation Director for English Heritage said 'The field of architectural metals conservation has for too long awaited a framework to successfully bind together the essential skills of the metals conservator and the conservation blacksmith; the aims of the National Heritage Ironwork Group will go a long way to deliver this. English Heritage fully supports these aims and we intend to contribute in every way that we can to ensure their successful development.'
For more information on the bursary aims and objectives as well as how it has been set up and is being run, download the 'Heritage Blacksmiths Bursary Programme Overview' from the bursaries page of the NHIG website.
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 APPEAL FOR HELP FINDING OWNERS OF STOLEN GATES
From Winchester Priority Crime Team, Hampshire Constabulary:
Urgent assistance required: Unidentified gates
Two identical black wrought iron gates as shown on the attached photograph are currently in the possession of Hampshire Constabulary. They were seized on the 31st March 2011 in rural Winchester following the execution of a search warrant.
As you see from the images attached, they are black with gold spike's at the top and in the middle, with a distinctive swirl pattern and singular red rose on each. At their highest point they are 7 foot high and are 6.7 foot wide.
If anybody has had similar gates stolen or knows of anyone who has had gates stolen, please contact the below named officer by telephone on 07901 102361.
Thanks for your assistance,
PC 24441 Stuart Turner
Contact: 07901 102361
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 PERIOD LIVING'S ROUND UP FOR SALVO FAIR 2011
Caroline Wheater sets the tone for the Salvo Fair this year with a four page preview in the July issue of Period Living, 'If you're searching for authentic period features for your home make a date with the annual Salvo Fair in Hertfordshire, where top yards and dealers from all over the UK and Europe offer a unique feast of architectural salvage, reclaimed building materials and gardenalia'...
24th - 26th June 2011
Knebworth House, Knebworth, Hertfordshire SG1 2AX
Open 11am - 4pm
TRADE DAY Friday 24th June Admission £15
Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th June Admission £8
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 SEVENTY BUSINESSES BOOKED FOR SALVO FAIR 2011 SO FAR...
Bookings are still being taken for Salvo Fair, which will be held from 24th - 26th June this year. So far seventy businesses have booked a space at the only architectural salvage and garden antiques fair in the world.
A sneaky peek at the Exhibitor List 2011
(For a more up to date list and for contact details see the link below)
A Touch of Class
ABACUS
ANGELA ROSE ANTIQUE TEXTILES
ANTIQUE BATHS OF IVYBRIDGE
ARC RECLAMATION LTD
ARCHITECTURE ET MATERIAUX AUTHENTIQUES
ARTGARRY
Abacus Stone Sales
Antiques By Design Ltd
Architectural Forum
Architectural Salvage Source
AsianArtcouk Ltd
Beautiful Bygones
BCA Materiaux Anciens
CAST IRON RECLAMATION CO
CHRISTAL ANTIQUES
Chancellors Church Furnishings
Charlottes Garden
Coach House Antiques
Cox's Yard @Moreton Architectural Reclamation Yard Ltd
D W Designs
De Zonneroos
Derek H. Davies
Drift Art
E W Trading
Eclectic Or What
Ecovril Ltd
Elham Antiques
Emily Readett-Bayley Ltd
English Country Antiques
Fiona Campbell Sculpture
Fuzzy Buzzard
Green Man Foliage
Hive Antiques
House Martin
In-Situ Manchester
Invite Your World
KEIR LEWIS
Kevin Green
LIGHTHOUSE EMPORIUM
Linda Garner
London Ornament
MONGERS
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Morways Developments
Mr & Mrs Sparke
OTTOMAN STREET
Old Bakery Antiques
PERIOD LIVING MAGAZINE
PR Polishing
Premier Fires & Floors
Quint Hughes
Reusefully
Rood Wood
SMITHS ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE
Salvo Fair
Salvo Llp
Search & Rescue Antiques
Serendipity Reclamation
Source Antiques Ltd
Steptoes Yard Ltd
Sutton & Son Antiques
T W Gaze Llp
The Vintage Fridge Company
The Original Homestore
The Original Stone Paving Company
Timeless Buys
Trinity Marine
UK Architectural Heritage
V&V Reclamation
Van De Wouwer Decorations
WOCKO THE WOODMAN
Wellers Auctioneers Ltd
White House Antiques
Woodstone Ltd
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 CHRISTIES SALE HAS ARCHITECTURAL AND GARDEN PIECES
On May 24th, Christies will hold an Interiors sale with a few architectural and garden gems tucked up its sleeves. A late 19th century terracotta dragon roof finial has commanded a £500 - £800 guide price. A pair of Victorian gothic doors oak doors are estimated at £600 - £900. A pair of late 19th century, early 20th century Coalbrookdale cast iron rustic pattern garden chairs are on for between £700 and £1000 and also a set of four hardwood half columns, possibly Indian have a guide price of £700 to £1000.
Christie's Interiors
Tuesday 24 May 2011
85 Old Brompton Road, London
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 TINY WOODLAND COTTAGE OF SALVAGE
Blogger, Sharona Design, posts an article on an 'alice in wonderland' house made from bits and bobs:
"The most adorable little victorian cottage ever. Sandra Foster turned a Catskills hunting cabin into the romantic Victorian cottage she had always wanted, using vintage columns, flooring and wavy glass windows, and doing the carpentry herself. This cottage is only accessible via a stone crossing over a stream."
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THREAT TO UK BRICKS FROM EU CARBON TAX
[Source: Andrea Klettner, bdonline co uk
Architects fear a new carbon tax could force the UK brick industry into decline, pushing up costs and forcing them to import the material from elsewhere. The news comes as the European Union prepares to classify heavy clay industries, including brick, roof tile and clay drainage pipe manufacturers under "carbon leakage risk" legislation, which will limit their carbon emissions.
Any emissions outside the allowance would be subject to an increasing charge from 2013, with brick-makers at risk of paying for 90% of their emissions by 2020 if they are not reclassified. Bob Allies, director at Allies & Morrison, said it would be a "tragedy" to stop manufacturing in the UK. "Brick is one of our fundamental materials and it would be sad to import bricks when we can make our own," he said.
The EU's move would also mean a competitive disadvantage for clay-based products compared to other materials such as steel and cement, which have been given more free carbon allowances.
Laura Cohen, chief executive of the British Ceramic Confederation, said: "I would like UK architects to be able to source and use quality, durable products - those made in the UK in energy-efficient factories.
"Present policies mean that essential products such as bricks and roof tiles are likely in the future to be imported from overseas - from less energy-efficient and more polluting factories."
Alan Davies, architect director of historic environments at BDP, used a local supplier to produce bespoke bricks for the restoration of Murrays' Mills in Manchester. He said: "This is the kind of service we should be encouraging. If this goes ahead we would have to go further afield for the bricks, which is nonsense in terms of sustainability and financially."
Meanwhile, brick manufacturers are holding out on further investment in the UK while the EU makes its decision. Wayne Sheppard, managing director of Ibstock Brick, said: "Ibstock has already invested more than £50 million in energy-efficiency improvements in the UK in the last decade. We had reduced our carbon emissions pre-recession by 18% as a result."
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Date Created : 19 May 2011 12:48:34
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 INVEST IN CHEAP HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Public authorities are selling off redundant historic buildings to raise capital. A London and York based auction house saw 14 councils list 100 properties in their most recent sale. Investment experts claim this recent trend by local councils could see buyers grabbing a bargain building.
Not long ago the Coinsbrough Priory near Doncaster had a guide price of £275,000 and the public baths in Rotherham had a guide price of £150,000. Also up for sale are two Georgian terraces of houses in Greenwich, and the old St Giles hospital in Camberwell, South London. Lluesty hospital in North Wales sold for £275,000. Government has sold £115million of its premises in the past nine months.
The Society for Protection of Ancient Biuldings secretary Philip Venning said "The situation could well become something of a gamble for hundreds of historic buildings. While there may be some positive outcomes, SPAB is deeply concerned that great swathes of the nation's built heritage will face an uncertain future under new ownership - or will simply be mothballed."
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Date Created : 19 May 2011 11:38:49
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 RINGO'S HOUSE DEMOLITION PUT ON HOLD
Save Britain's Heritage has been running a campaign to stop a Victorian terrace in Liverpool from being demolished by Pathfinder. The terrace of houses, where Ringo Starr grew up, cannot now be destroyed without the permission of communities secretary, Eric Pickles, who has issued a stop notice on the work.
Before they were vetoed Liverpool councillors voted unanimously in April for work to go ahead. The dilapidated street has been under threat of demolition for ten years.
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Date Created : 19 May 2011 11:12:21
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 LIBERTY'S ARTS AND CRAFTS EXPO
The annual Arts and Crafts Exhibition at Libertys London takes place from Thursday 19th May to Sunday 19th June. The exhibition showcases original Arts & Crafts Design from 1850 to 1950 including furniture, lighting, textiles and other objects all relating to Liberty's illustrious past. The preview evening tonight includes a talk and book signing by special guest Stephen Calloway, curator of the V&A's major exhibition The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860 - 1900.
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DECON 11 STARTS IN NEW HAVEN
The USA BMRA (Building Material Reuse Association) is holding its national conference in New Haven, CT from May 15-19th, 2011. Events begin at ArtSpace in New Haven where BMRA will hold its opening reception the evening of the Sunday 15 May. Monday morning welcomes attendees with breakfast and keynote speakers including Jim Hartzfeld of Interface Inc, Liz Ogbu of Public Architecture, and Dan Phillips of The Phoenix Commotion.
Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday are filled with speakers from around the United States and Canada. The sessions are broken down into four categories or tracks, including Sustainable Communities, Deconstruction, Materials Reuse, and C&D Recycling. It is your chance to learn from the industry's experts on reusable building materials and C&D recycling. In addition to these presentations, the BMRA has an exhibit hall with tables filled with a variety of industry services and opportunities. A BMRA members meeting will be held during the conference and all are welcome to attend.
Students from various architectural, construction management and environmental sustainability programs will participate in Poster Session Program as they compete for cash prizes. On Wednesday afternoon, two optional tours will be held around the New Haven area focusing on material reuse and local efforts in deconstruction, recycling, and resale of building materials. Thursday closes the conference with optional training workshops on deconstruction and C&D Waste Recycling.
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Date Created : 12 May 2011 23:26:13
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 GREEN ROOFS, TURF ROOFS OR TORVTAK IN NORWAY
The turf roof, or 'torvtak', used to cover houses in Norway since at least 500BC, used birch bark shingles covered in peat or turf sods, over which grass, flowers and other stuff grew. An illustration of Bergen in c1580 showed sheep grazing on the city's turf roofs.
Green roofs gradually fell out of favour as public buildings and wealthy families started to use tile and slate. In 1624 they were eventually banned by King Christian IV in Christiana, although more rural northern towns such as Trondheim many houses still have turf roofs in the 18th century. By the 20th century green roofs were on the wane, although in Hornindal three-quarters of all houses still had turf roofs in 1933. Continuity of the tradition continued in open air museums of building, and in the past few decades green roofs have seen a big revival not only in rural and traditional housing but on modern city buildings too.
See torvtak in Wikipedia for more technical info on traditional Norwegian turf roofs.
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Date Created : 12 May 2011 14:43:43
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 POSTINGS FROM ROMANIA
Me and the family went to Romania recently for a road trip. This is a country that makes you realise just how diverse the European Union is. A bit like Azerbaijan being in the Eurovision song contest one can't help feeling that it's a bit of a stretch. I mean, why not Chad as well? Or the Dominican Republic? Anyway, we had a little bit of trepidation at first, after all this a country famous for, in no particular order:
Mistreating Orphans horribly
The worst recent dictator this side of Pol Pot
Gangsters, corruption and criminal Gypsy gangs
The worst drivers in the Western Hemisphere
As it turned out the Romanians are very friendly, hospitable and everyone under the age of 30 speaks English. They do have some shocking drivers though. Never mind people overtaking on blind corners, this is a place where you'd often have people overtaking the people who were overtaking on the blind bends. This might date from the fairly recent time when one bought a license rather than going through the rigmarole of lessons, etc. The poverty was startling at times but at no time did we feel unsafe on the streets apart from the occasional threat from packs of stray dogs. (Top Tip: they are generally OK but be very careful not to wake them if they are asleep).
Of course, being in the church business I had to drag the wife and kids into a few places of worship. This church here is in the Northern village of Vishki, a place where Prince Charles, no less, has 'property'. He has been quoted as saying he would like 'ordinary people' to live a life similar to that of the Vishkians. Having seen the unpaved roads of mud, the pigs chasing the children with the running sores away from the street water pump (indoor taps are a luxury here) and other mutilated animals lurching about I'm not sure what this tells us about our future King.
I loved the church. It is possibly my favourite ever in terms of atmosphere and fittings. Approximately 700 years old it used to be the 'German' church from when the area was mostly German speaking. (One comes across memorials to the thousands of ethnic Germans who were shipped off by the Russians to be killed by lack of food and overwork. Tit for Tat I suppose.) Note the Gallery benching arrangement where you a) Have to be small to fit and b) have to be careful not to tip over the balcony onto the floor below
The old lady who was caretaker at Vishki Church said we were welcome to climb to the top. Health and Safety wise I am not sure it would make the cut over here. There were loose ladders, missing sections of floor to fall through and wobbly or no existent railings. The children liked it, my wife had kittens and the views from the top were fantastic.
Note: Readers will be able to meet Laurence Skilling to chat about Romania, Prince Charles, Health & Safety, burning pianos and buying church antiques on Chancellors stand at this year's Salvo Fair at Knebworth on 24 - 26 June
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Date Created : 12 May 2011 10:16:13
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 COLMAN'S STARCH STARS AT GAZE'S
The rural and domestic bygones at T W Gaze held in Diss on 7 May 2011 produced some interesting results, including a dispersal sale of over 60 lots of smoothing irons ranging in type from charcoal to electric which fetched between £3 and £25 each.
Colman's rice starch was prominent in the shop goods section with five lots fetching good prices, and the top price of the day at £400 (plus BP) for a pine Colmans Starch crate containing 32 packets with contents, the packets illustrated with various flags including Gt. Britain, America, Switzerland, Chile, Japan etc. Two 18thC horse measures went well, a mahogany one sold for £330. A two inch kingfisher trap made £230.
Among the other 1,600 lots, eleven wooden bushel fruit crates made £45, a pair of iron trestles made £100 and 'The Cook', a small closed cast iron range by James Nicholson & Co, made £170.
Next sale is Modern Design on 11 June 2011.
Note on Colman's Rice Starch: 'J & J Colman's rice starch manufacture employs 1,000 workpeople, and the result of their manipulation is used as the customary washing starch, the stiffer and brighter starch for ball dresses, window hangings, and for the size in paper manufacture.' Manual of chemical techonology by Wagner & Fischer, 1892. Colman's mustard was founded by Jeremiah Colman in Norwich in 1814.
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 SOURCE TO BRING RARE ARRIFLEX 35 BLIMP TO SALVO FAIR
Source Antiques is making a welcome return to the Salvo Fair in 2011. Rod and Tom Donaldson last exhibited in 2006 with an impressive display of twentieth century antiques and architectural salvage, retro fifties lighting and vintage English Rose and Paul Metalcraft aluminium kitchens with traditional and bespoke finishes.
The metal look, write Messrs Donaldson on their website, both polished and industrial is still strong, and our team is busy concocting fantastic new concepts in the furniture and lighting areas. We invite you to see how Source aims to be at the forefront of eclectic reclaimed design.
Eclecticism is a conceptual approach without a single paradigm or set of assumptions, which draws upon multiple styles or ideas, an example of which is the Arriflex 35 blimp which Source plan to exhibit at the fair. This rare c1953 camera case housed the worlds first reflex cine camera, was used in the 1950s and 60s by directors such as Stanley Kubrick on films such as Clockwork Orange, and is on offer at £750. Rod Donaldson said that he bought it years ago from a film-themed Toby Inn in Ipswich and sold it to a Bath theatre company which, owing to the cuts, has been liquidating some of its assets and sold it back to him.
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STOLEN CREDIT CARD SCAM, WATCH OUT!
A new type of credit card scam is believed to have resulted in one UK salvage yard being swindled out of two container loads of reclaimed material, but a Gloucestershire Salvo Code dealer who was also targeted by the same crooks managed to avoid being duped. Their two stories are outlined below.
The duped business was a UK salvage yard. The scam worked when a customer phoned a UK salvage yard ordering a delivery of materials to a remote location, in this case London. The customer paid the UK salvage yard by credit card, gave a false business name, and refused to give an invoice address or landline telephone number. The credit card payment was accepted by the PDQ and the goods were taken by the customers haulier. Four months later the credit card company charged back the full amount, the card had been stolen or cloned. The UK salvage yard had no delivery details to chase and so it lost the goods and was never paid.
The business which avoided being duped was a Gloucestershire Salvo Code dealer. The circumstances were the same as the story above, and a credit card payment was accepted. The Gloucestershire dealer used a credit checker called 'Risk Disk' to check 'UK Developers' which did not appear as a registered company. Alarm bells began to ring, so the Gloucestershire dealer phoned its card payment provider, Barclaycard, who told him that even though the security questions supplied were correct, if the card was stolen or cloned then the card company will refund a transaction, and seek to take the money back from the supplier of the goods. So the Gloucestershire dealer refunded the credit card payment and asked the customer to pay by bank transfer, which he refused to do.
The Gloucestershire dealer said "Beware of any new customer who supplies only mobile numbers and vague details, insisting on arranging their own collection, is often in a rush to pay and arrange collection and who backs out quickly without fuss when asked to pay by BACS, CHAPS or cash."
Any Salvo Code businesses wishing to know the name of the Gloucestershire dealer, who is willing to discuss this further, please contact Salvo by email.
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Date Created : 09 May 2011 10:10:46
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 GET YOUR SOCIAL AND MEDIA LINKS ON YOUR SALVO DIRECTORY ENTRY
Businesses can now place social and media links on their SalvoWEB Directory entries. The directory is viewed by tens of thousands of visitors every month*. They will now be able to click on to your Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, blogs, photo galleries and video streams.
Instructions - How to add social and media links to your Salvo Directory entry:
1. Log into your SalvoWEB control panel
2. Go to 'Your Details'
3. Scroll down the page to see the new links fields and add your links. Include 'http : // www'
4. Click That's it!
* From 5 April to 4 May 2011 a total of 41,230 directory pages were viewed of which
28,213 were the UK directory on salvo. co.uk
9,065 were the world directory on salvoweb. com
3,952 were the USA directory on salvo. us
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