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 GETTING ECLECTIC IN KANSAS AND ORIGINAL IN LINCOLN
"It's all about using key pieces here and there to achieve an eclectic look. Rarely does anyone decorate all in one period or style," says Patrick Ottesen, owner of Foundation Architectural Reclamation in Kansas City, Missouri, writes Rhiannon Ross in Discover Mid America magazine.
"The growing appeal of architectural salvage can be attributed to its expert craftsmanship, connections to the past, and aesthetically appealing details such as a fine patina, intricate trim work or hand carvings," Ottesen says. "People can either go to Home Depot to get some new oak or they can go to an architectural salvage place and get some old oak," he says. "Someone might look at bundles of antique flooring and say its just rubbish, but by using Tung oil finish and polyurethane, we can create something beautiful."
"There's an interesting fusion now between preservation and architectural salvage," Ottesen says. "We used to be the enemy. But now, architectural salvage is the key to putting preservationists' dreams back together."
Formerly an architectural student before opening Foundation, his own architectural salvage business, five years ago, Ottesen hails from Chicago. Interior designer Nate Berkus, of The Nate Berkus Show and Oprah Winfrey's designer, was one of his customers when he worked at Architectural Artifacts, Inc. in Chicago.
In his trendy space, located within the red-bricked walls of a former manufacturing plant in Kansas City's West Bottoms - an industrial area that's been reclaimed and transformed by area artists - Ottesen suspends wainscoting, doors and stained glass windows from the ceiling.
"In the last four to five years, we've seen a move toward more remodeling when previously we've seen demolition," says Sid Conner, owner of Conner's Architectural Antiques in Lincoln, Nebraska. "We deal with people doing restoration on houses and more than 50 percent of our customers want to take their houses back to their original states. They're replacing doors or maybe they're opening up a staircase that's been closed. Or, people wish to match the hardware in restoration."
Conner and his wife opened their architectural salvage business in 1974 after they purchased an 1899 Victorian home.
"It was in need of many items for restoration that we found very difficult to find. As a result, a business just naturally grew out of those searches and the networking with others. Some would ask that in our quest if we found such and such to let them know, as they were also trying to restore or refurbish a home," Conner says.
"In kitchens, people are placing decorative eaves brackets below a kitchen bar or using tin ceiling as a backsplash in the kitchen or as a backdrop in cabinets. And we're selling fireplace mantels to newer homes," he says. "We've also seen an uptake in architectural hardware, especially Victorian hinges, doorknobs, lock sets, back plates in cast brass or cast bronze. People also are interested in ornate, cast bronze mechanical doorbells from the Victorian era and even window sash locks."
Both Sid Conner and Patrick Ottesen extol the green virtue of reuse of salvage, and the uniqueness which using salvage offers their customers.
[Taken from an article by Rhiannon Ross called 'Architectural salvage adds personality to home décor' on Sid Conner and Patrick Ottesen in the March 2011 edition of Discover Mid America
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JAMIE OLIVER USES RECLAIMED, AGAIN
Jamie Oliver, top of the celebrity ranking list for trustworthiness and consumer influence, is a brand which has backed reuse of old kitchen implements as well as reclaimed building material. For example, in 2010 he used old white and brown glazed bricks sourced from V&V in Hertford in the Jamie's Italian restaurant in Westfield in Shepherd's Bush.
His own website is an emporium of endorsed new products, but one - Jamie's Wood Ovens - can and does use reclaimed bricks. Andrew Manciocchi, the oven builder, told SalvoNEWS yes, the outer skin of Jamie's own oven was built from reclaimed bricks. Jamie says he loves his oven because, "To my mind, wood fired ovens represent the ultimate foodie must-have. Whether we're talking indoor or outdoor ovens, their dry heat and stone base crisps up a pizza like you wouldn't believe. But that's only the start of the story, there are thousands of other beautiful things you can make in them; I'm talking perfect roast chicken, crispy crackling and pork chops, seared scallops, baked breads, and even an overnight melt-in-the-mouth stew. And because the internal temperature varies, you can cook multiple dishes at different rates inside the same oven, which is a great thing to have up your sleeve whether you're feeding lots of mouths or just trying to cook efficiently. My wood fired oven has definitely had a lot of love and use over the years. I'm willing to bet you'll be cooking in yours year-round, and probably serving Christmas dinner out of it come December!" It takes from an hour to three hours to create the right temperature, he says.
The exterior of the ovens can be built to any design and use any material. "Many of our customers use reclaimed brick or stone in their designs," Andrew said. But the resulting monolithic ovens themselves cannot be reclaimed easily.
"There is no secondhand market," Andrew said, "largely due to the fact that customers sell their ovens as a feature of their home and buy a new model for their new home when they move. There is not a logistical reason an oven could not be moved but they are made from refractory clay and expand and contract in use and consequently cracks are formed and they structurally weaken over time. For example, one eighteen month old oven we dismantled was in ten pieces instead of its original four."
Note: Most Jamie's Italian restaurants also seem to have Thomas Crapper & Co fittings, and the latest one in Nottingham was kitted out with Andy Thornton's new period furniture range, an original 1.7m high copper Calvados distiller dating from the late 19th century and a reclaimed industrial-style metal cabinet.
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 ARRAS SEATS CHASED TO $7,600 AT KAMELOT
A pair of Arras seats labelled 'Usine S Sauveur Arras' sold for $7,600 at the 700 lot garden and architectural sale at Kamelot Auctions held on 9 April 2011. Top lot was a set of 21 Tiffany lampshades etched 'L C T Favrile' recently removed from a church in upstate New York which sold for $11,500. A pair of finely modelled bronze deer marked 'Sab de Angelis & Fils. Naples 1907' sold for $10,500. A pair of Regency mirrors sold for $4,800 (est $400). Several impressive lots of stained glass were among the lots which failed to sell.
The next architectural sale will be held at Kamelot on 19 November 2011.
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 SHEEP POPULAR AT PENRITH AUCTION
The garden and architectural section at the 6 April sale held by Penrith Farmers' & Kidd had a reasonable response with around 80 per cent sold by lot with the highest lot being a large Victorian cast iron urn, 3ft dia, on a sandstone plinth 4ft high overall, which sold for £1,900 (plus buyer's premium of 15%) against an estimate of £500.
Second and third highest lots were a 4ft dia sandstone millstone, 12ins thick, at £950 (est £150) and another slightly larger at 53ins sold for £850. Top lot out of 28 troughs was a circular trough 37cm deep by 56cm dia which sold for £280 (est £150). A studded door from Lowther Castle, home of the Earls of Lonsdale, built by Robert Smirke c1810, sold for £420. A large number of stone carved figures in this sale sold for prices upward of £160, with the top lots all being of sheep of which £620 was the highest.
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 GAZE UPCOMING ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE AND STATUARY SALE
Among the many lots at this Saturday's architectural salvage and statuary sale at T W Gaze in Diss is a bridge recrafted from antique iron and reclaimed oak and cedar by garden furniture and accoutrement designer and maker, David Le Versha. The bridge is estimated at £2,900-£4,350 and he has also entered a recrafted iron zinc-lined Wardian case at £1,250-£1,850.
There are also other higher value pieces of carved sandstone statuary from a church in Clacton, a large early 19thC sundial from a sunken garden at Biddulph Old Hall, a set of four coloured glass Georgian lancet-headed windows, Cotswold paving from the Miller's House Upper Braills, a pair of carved stone Bath stone altar plaques from St Barnabas Church in Bristol, and a c1850 carved marble bust from Wentworth Hall in Yorkshire. Plus of course the normal plethora of early and modern concrete ornament, iron gates railings and fireplaces, flagstones, oak and other flooring, bathroom facilities, trade catalogues, all ranging in estimate from £20 to £5,600.
See the link or the Salvo Calendar for more details.
Note: Mr Carl Willows will be putting in a customary appearance at the forthcoming Salvo Fair, and his company T W Gaze & Sons are kindly sponsoring the event again. Please book your ticket to the trade day at the link below.
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 AI WEIWEI'S SUMMER PALACE ZODIAC BRONZES GO ON TOUR - WHILE HE IS LOCKED UP
The sale in 2009 by Christie's of the late Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge's collection in Paris included two bronze heads looted from a zodiac fountain in the Xiyang Lo gardens in the Summer Palace in Beijing by French and English troops during the Second Opium War in 1860.
The heads of the rabbit and rat were famously knocked down to Chinese Cai Mingchao for €31.6m (est €16m) after which he refused to pay on moral and patriotic grounds. This, and several other high profile failures to pay for high-priced Chinese lots has had a rebound effect on Chinese purchases as some top Western auction houses have now been reported as asking for large deposits from Chinese bidders.
After the sale in 2009, China announced that it planned to tighten export controls on Christie's operations in China. The Chinese government had protested the auction of the two sculptures. Bergé provocatively offered to return them to their country of origin at no cost if China restored political freedom to Tibet.
The Xiyang Lo, literally Western Gardens, in the grounds of the Summer Palace were built for Qing dynasty emperor Qianlong by Chinese workmen, 1747-51, under the direction of the Italian Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione who was a court painter and the French Jesuit scientist Michel Benoist for engineering the fountains, the German Ignatius Sickelpart and the Florentine Bonaventura Moggi. The Haiyantang was the area at Xiyang Lou that included a water clock fountain consisting of twelve carved stone zodiac figures with bronze heads, of which the rat and rabbit were two.
Of the other ten original heads the ox, tiger and monkey were acquired in 2000 by state-owned Poly Group Corp for $1m-$2m each, and the Hong Kong industrialist Stanley Ho acquired the pig in 2003 for $770,000, and the horse in 2007 for $8.9m. The whereabouts of the remaining dragon, snake, sheep, rooster and dog heads is unknown.
The zodiac episode set China's most prominent maverick artist, Ai Weiwei, to producing a new set of monumental bronze oversize heads as an artwork, replicating the known heads and reinterpreting the others. The group of outward-looking heads on 2m bronze stalks, known as 'Circle of Animals', have already been shown in Brazil and will shortly be on show in New York and at Somerset House in London. The sculptures are in an edition of six plus four and will be marketed at about $500,000 each. A smaller set of gold-leaf works will sell for around $200,000 each.
On Ai Weiwei's web page about 'Circle of Animals' he describes the work: 'I want this to be seen as an object that doesn't have a monumental quality, but rather is a funny piece- -a piece people can relate to or interpret on many different levels, because everybody has a zodiac connection. A sculpture always functions as an object that people would question the meaning and content of. They're just objects that could suggest something else.
The style of the original zodiac fountain is very interesting- -Chinese, but mixed. It is a Western understanding of a Chinese way. You can see those things happening during the eighteenth century. The West had Chinese gardens and Chinese pagodas in their parks and houses. And images. It was always about illusions of Oriental-ness, or Chinese-ness. My work is always dealing with real or fake, authenticity, what the value is, and how the value relates to current political and social understandings and misunderstandings. I think there's a strong humorous aspect there. The Yves Saint-Laurent zodiac auction in February 2009 really complicated the issues about art, about the real, about fake, resources, looting, about the appreciation of objects- -all these kinds of issues. Because Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is animal heads, I think it's something that everyone can have some understanding of, including children and people who are not in the art world. I think it's more important to show your work to the public. That's what I really care about. When Andy Warhol painted Mao in the 1960s and 1970s, I don't think many people understood Mao, either- -it was just this image that people knew, like Marilyn Monroe or somebody. So they might see these zodiac animals like that- -like Mickey Mouse. They're just animals. Eleven real animals and one mystic animal.'
Ai Weiwei, who designed the bird's nest around the Beijing Olympics stadium, and who covered the floor of Tate Modern with ceramic sunflower seeds, was arrested by police at Beijing airport on 3 April 2011 has not been heard of since and his whereabouts are presently unknown. Several governments have lodged protests with the Chinese government, to no avail. Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, said she was deeply concerned at the human rights situation in China, referring to the arrest, harrassment, sentencing and disappearance of lawyers, writers, artists and dissidents, and new restrictions imposed on foreign journalists. "In this context, I am alarmed at the arrest of Ai Weiwei," she said. His arrest was for alleged economic crimes.
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 TRANSATLANTIC SPRUNG STEEL GARDEN SEATS POP UP IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Architectural Heritage of Taddington Manor is offering a spring collection of early twentieth century sprung-steel garden furniture, acquired in Puerto Rico where it appeared, according to Architectural Heritage, on one of the sets of Fantasy Island, the cult TV series which ran from 1977 - 1984.
The Fantasy Island series was filmed primarily in Burbank, California, with the title scene of the island coastline that of Kauai, Hawaii, and the house with the bell tower being the Queen Anne Cottage, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia. According to Patricia Shackelford, French 'button' chairs were also known to have been used by Le Corbusier in his design for a room without a roof in the 1940s, as well as in Rick's Cafe Americaine in the film Casablanca.
These unusual but increasingly iconic garden seats and benches use spring steel and were in manufacture from the 1870s through to the 1930s, patented in the USA by François A. Carré in 1866 about whom little is known, but he may have been a French emigré to the USA. Architectural Heritage writes that similar sprung steel seats were made by Val d'Osne, whose foundries were in Haute Marne, France, by Schlesinger Wiessener Co of Vienna and New York, and by Lalance & Grosjean in New York - this latter company purchased the patent from Carré.
The restored seats shown in the photos include various models of stool, seat and bench, which Architectural Heritage is selling for prices ranging from £150 to £1,800.
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 THOMAS CRAPPER THE RACEHORSE
Simon Kirby, antique sanitaryware dealer and restorer, and successful owner of period sanitaryware maker Thomas Crapper & Co, is now a part owner of an epynomous racehorse trained at Alscot Park stables. Thomas Crapper (aka Bwian) was purchased as a foal, and has been carefully produced by trainer Robin Dickin as a future National Hunt chaser. He is now ready to run. Mr Kirby is aiming to put together a partnership of 20 people to enjoy the fun of racing him, and hoping that the majority of the group will be made up of local individuals with a connection to the Alscot Estate.
The costs involved are £400 initial outlay to purchase a 1/20th of the horse and thereafter £100/month in 'running costs'. The group is run from the office at Robin Dickin Racing, and there will also be a designated website for the group.
Simon Kirby writes, 'The equine Mr. Crapper finished in a creditable second place at Warwick in March, and this was only the second time he has raced! The trainer has great hopes for this horse. Should be fun, anyway.'
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 WABI-SABI HOUSE
Robyn Griggs Lawrence introduced many to the 15th century Japanese philosophy of Wabi -sabi and her new book, 'Simply Imperfect: Re-Visiting the Wabi-Sabi House' is available from 10 April.
Wabi-sabi can be interpreted as serene simplicity combined with the appreciation of aged beauty. Objects for the home are chosen with care and love, to last the distance of time, which also supports the philosophy of caring for the environment.
Wabi-sabi styling is not to be confused with shabby chic, which can give a cluttered interior. Simplicity is key, so Robyn suggests having a clear-out, getting rid of things that are not used, and keeping objects that are loved and that have an emotional connection. These are often items in harmony with nature or with a link to a place or person. The aim is to create a comfortable environment which brings joy. But it also accepts the transience of life. Items loved and cared for can be appreciated by someone else in the future.
Sabi is character and beauty in age and imperfection. Objects can show the marks of time and still be beautiful. Compare the beauty, individuality and a solidity of a reclaimed wood floor to the dull uniformity and squeekiness underfoot of a laminate or new thin veneer floor. Robyn argues that one should not be afraid to be unconventional either. It is more interesting to find unique objects with attributes such as the individuality of handcrafted items and furniture that does not match.
Wabi is creating space in the home for peace and relaxation. An example could be a special comfy chair in the bedroom away from the noise of modern life. Another example inspired by the Japanese tea ceremony, is tea not rushed relaxing with friends and family. This is a reminder of old fashioned English teas. So use real tea leaves in a teapot with cups and saucers and a lovely plate of homemade cakes. But using the ideas inspired by wabi-sabi the antique china does not need to match.
To find unique items with aged beauty shop in your local architectural salvage yard, look on Salvoweb, or at charity shops, markets and fairs. Don't forget the Salvo Fair is at Knebworth on 25th and 26th June. Once discovered wabi-sabi could change your life.
Robyn Griggs Lawrence is USA writer and editor of Mother Earth News, Natural Home and Herb Companion magazines, who also speaks on topics ranging from green building, spiritual design and organic gardening.
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THE INDEPENDENT'S HANDY GUIDE TO ONLINE JUNK
Kate Burt, The Independent's affordable interiors expert, has written a brief guide to rummaging online, with eleven key websites, kindly including SalvoWEB for architectural salvage, and - a surprise to us - Oxfam's online store with vintage fashion, cameras, books, DVDs and so on. Check it out!
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 EASTENDERS HAPPY STORYLINE? LEAVE IT!
This is Tony, prop buyer for Eastenders trying out a font with a lifesize stoneware Jesus baby. When he turned up with his designer colleague I immediately pointed him in the direction of the crucifixes - someone else was obviously about to die on the show and they'd be needing some gloomy Christian kit to indicate funerals/misery etc. Of course it couldn't compare to the Coronation Street slaughterfest back at Christmas time (we did some good business supplying all sorts for the multiple Corrie funerals) but maybe a pair of coffin stands, a sad tattered bible…
Imagine my surprise when it turns out that they wanted to hire stuff for a christening. Of course from what I can gather this is probably going to be pretty compromised, miserable affair, no doubt with people saying 'Leave it!' but even so this is verging on the positive for Britains most depressing Soap. What next? An uncomplicated wedding where the couple both love each other and the guests are all friends with each other?
Leave it!
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UK LANDFILL TAX ESCALATES AS REUSE OF RECLAIMED BUILDING MATERIAL DROPS
The UK landfill tax has increased in the 1st April budget by £8 from £48 to £56 per tonne for 'active' waste, or anything which rots including timber. Active waste also includes mixed waste, but not hazardous waste. The tax for inert waste, such as bricks, stone and concrete, remains £2.50 per tonne. The landfill tax escalator will continue to increase until 2014 when it will be £80 a tonne.
Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP, kindly put a question to the government from one of her constituents, asking whether the increase in landfill tax has resulted in more reuse. The letter was passed, not to George Osborne, who put up the tax, but to Lord Henley at Defra.
Lord Henley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, replied to Ms Lucas' question, but failed to answer it. His reply mentioned recycling of construction and demolition waste, but not reuse, except to state that WRAP has been encouraging recycling and reuse through schemes such as Halving Waste to Landfill. He is correct about WRAP encouraging recycling (crushing, composting and burning), but wrong about it encouraging reuse.
Reclaimed stone reuse dropped from 1,500,000t in 1997 to 800,000t in 2008, and reclaimed timber reuse dropped from 700,000t in 1997 to 350,000t in 2008. The figures are from the BigREc Surveys of 1997 and 2008, commissioned by Defra.
It seems that the landfill tax has not encouraged reuse. Arguably, instead it seems to have resulted in reusable material, such as reclaimable stone, being diverted from reuse to recycling (crushing) and reclaimable timber being diverted from reuse to Energy from Waste (being burnt).
So, although the landfill tax may be good for raising money and encouraging recycling of domestic waste, it is bad for reuse and has resulted in an overall reverse in the amount of reclaimable building material being reused.
The continued downward trend in reuse will eventually put the government in a tricky position because under the 2008 EU Waste Framework Directive it must prioritise reuse over recycling and energy from waste.
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 QUEEN JULIANA WHITE GLOVE SALE RAISES €5M FOR CHARITY
The four day mid-March Amsterdam attic sale of the effects of Queen Juliana by Sotheby's saw estimates smashed and every lot sold after 10,000 people had come to the viewing. The sale total was €7m, of which €5m will go to charity. Patrick van Maris, Managing Director of Sotheby's Europe and the Middle East, said: "After four days and over thirty-four hours of auctioneering, all 10,000 items offered in 1,535 lots have found a new home, resulting in a white-glove sale. The illustrious provenance of each and every object attracted competitive bidding from fervent admirers of Queen Juliana, not only in the Netherlands, but also from around the world."
Although cutlery, crockery and paintings featured strongly, among the lesser lots were a set of a copper pot, iron pot, and wooden pot 67cm high, estimated at €100 which sold for €750. Fourteen pelmet lots ranged in price from €200 to a pair of carved giltwood Louis XVI style, 2nd half of 19thC which sold for €3,000 the pair. A Dutch enamelled metal water jug, 33cm high, monogrammed 'E' and 'Paleis', sold for €2,125 against a €100 estimate. A red Dutch childrens garden bench 100cm long estimated at €50 made €1,250.
The property in the auction was in part acquired by Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, but the larger part was accumulated over the last 150 years by inheritance from Kings Willem II and III, Queen Emma and Queen Wilhelmina. The inventory marks and labels on many of the pieces show that they were used in seven Royal Palaces and Residences throughout the Netherlands.
The bulk of the charity money will go to the late Queen Juliana's pet charity, The Red Cross, with the remainder going to her four children's charity choices: The Princess Beatrix Fund which is the choice of Queen Beatrix, Princess Irene chose The NatureCollege, Princess Margriet chose the Red Cross and the Princess Christina Concours was chosen by Princess Christina.
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 DRUMMOND'S TO HAVE A PRETTY SERIOUS CLEAR OUT
Drummond's Architectural Antiques is planning to hold a clearance auction sale of its entire stocks as part of a restructuring of erstwhile flagship salvage stockholding business which has since become a major manufacturer of cast iron baths. Future plans are formative at this stage, but it is believed that the antique division will continue as a sourcing service with stockholding only of items of special interest.
The sale will be conducted by celebrity auctioneer James Rylands of Antiques Roadshow and Cash in the Attic fame, as well as his proper job at Summers Place Auctions. He is doing this in a personal capacity, "as a mate". It will take place at Hindhead on 18 June 2011 with around 300 lots sold as a live auction, and 400 lots as a sealed bid auction. Most of the lots will be no reserve, although some of the prestige items, such as the Mappin & Webb staircase, will have a reserve. The catalogue will be on the internet in May and mailed out on request.
Founder Drummond Shaw said, "It's a pretty serious clear-out."
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THIEVES TAKE STOLEN EDINBURGH BRASSWARE TO THE SOUTH
In an article in The Herald by Brian Donnelly about brassware stolen from front doors in Edinburgh, a spokesman for Holyrood Architectural Salvage, near Duddingston said that thieves of brassware don't try to sell the objects in Edinburgh, they either take them down south or to other parts of Scotland.
But the inference of the article is that the brass is being stolen primarily for its scrap value: 'Rising prices in brass has led to a re-emergence of the crime in the Scottish capital as antique letterboxes, kick-plates and name-plates have been targeted. Brass ornaments, including door knockers, are being unscrewed or prised from homes in the city's west end and the Georgian New Town, and smuggled south of the Border, abroad for sale in eastern markets or elsewhere in Scotland to be sold as scrap, according to salvage experts. Kick-plates at the bottom of doors can be up to four feet long and fetch £200, while a second-hand letterbox can be sold for around £20. Prices have been as high as £2 per pound for brass scrap, a figure being pushed up by demand in countries such as China. This has risen from £1.50 per pound three years ago, according to the London Metal Exchange. However, most residents do not call in police in the belief that their recovery is unlikely. Two men from Leith were recently the subject of a police investigation over allegations of thefts of brass kick-plates from doors in the New Town. City centre councillor Charles Dundas said yesterday that victims should report such thefts to help police tackle the problem. He said: "Recording a theft of this kind with the police means that they can direct resources into tackling it in specific streets and areas if they know there is a gang of people particularly targeting one thing. This spate of thefts is undoubtedly driven by the rising price of metals on the world market. New Town resident Peter Verity, 67, of Scotland Street - made famous by Alexander McCall Smith's novels - had his kick-plate stolen one night. He said the prospect of "meeting a thief at the front door with a screwdriver in his hand is certainly not a nice thought". The architect has just secured a new plate with industrial strength bolts and fixed the bolts with hard-wearing glue. "It will hopefully deter them from doing it again," he said. Alistair Stein, of Central New Town Residents Association, said brass ornaments could be costly to replace and added that some homeowners may consider a return to historic measures taken to prevent thefts. He said: "The Victorians used to unbolt their door knockers that were specially made so when they were going on holiday they could take them down to stop them being stolen. Some even used to board up their doors when they went away."'
It makes sense for anyone with brass door furniture to mark it in some way (maybe a discrete scratch or two) and photograph it, so that it can be positively identified if stolen and recovered, and to raise a Salvo Theft Alert if a theft of brassware takes place.
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 GRIDLEY BARROWS LEAVES PHOTO MYSTERIES
In 1999, when Lewiston architect and local historian Gridley Barrows died, the Lewiston Public Library received his collection of 5,244 photographic slides and more than 600 prints depicting local buildings and architectural features which will eventually be preserved and made available to the public. Most have been identified over the years, but many remain a mystery.
If you are the first to correctly identify a photo, you will be recognized by the Sun Journal and on the LPL's website. Eventually, the Gridley Barrows photographic collection will make its way onto the library's website. If you think you recognize this photo, e-mail the library at LPLreference@ lewistonmaine dot gov or send a note to Reference Department, Lewiston Public Library 200 Lisbon St., Lewiston, ME 04240.
Gridley Barrows died aged 87 in March 1999, five days after the death of his wife, Jean. As a devout Christian Scientist he believed that passing on is simply a stage not an end.
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 PENRITH AUCTION HAS LOADS OF TROUGHS AND SCULPTURE
Penrith Farmers' & Kidd's will be holding an antique and collectors sale which features 159 lots of mainly well-weathered sandstone troughs, and a large number of weathered marble carvings. The sale takes place on Wednesday 6th April at 9.30am.
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WE ALWAYS NEED THE CASH UP FRONT, WE IN THE SALVAGE TRADE . . .
"Architectural Salvage Dealer. er, reclaimed bricks and stuff.
… I'd like an overdraft." A yawn. He'd clearly heard enough.
Years ago, my Manager was simply hard of hearing -
but the lad I cop for nowadays, has a tattoo and an ear-ring.
He doesn't tap his hearing-aid, as Mr Hawkins did,
to indicate a courteous "no" to umpteen-thousand quid.
He cannot offer compromise, assistance. Just ticks boxes,
his face a pimpled lunar-scape of adolescent poxes.
"I've got this deal. I buy at 10, and sell for 42.
There's 50,000. Take 2 weeks. That's fifteen grand, to you.
I've got the Nelson-Eddies, but I need you, just in case…"
He looked as if his favourite aunt had just sat on his face.
Now, Mr Hawkins had his nerves, but always came up trumps.
He knew that flogging cobblestones was bound to have some bumps.
He didn't scratch his arse and go for filling in a form.
The architectural salvage trade, he knew, was nowhere near the norm.
He drove a Rover, liked his golf; had trophies in his office,
with over-spilling ashtrays and cup-marks from endless coffees.
But now it's a "Consulting Room" where the snot-nosed hear our pleas,
just a ten-mil plate-glass distance from the next guy on his knees.
I remember Mr Hawkins' joy when the cobbles came up good.
"Well done," he said, "well done, my boy." (He knew they bloody would)
… and so we prospered. Me, and no doubt Hawkins-and-The-Bank.
Jump twenty years. It's down to me, and Couldn't-Give-A-Wank.
"… so, sales," he says (scratching arse), "what's in the order book?
Expecting any payments in? Is factoring worth a look?"
"No," I say, "I've got the dough. But sometimes it goes sour."
His reply completely de rigeur, for one paid by the hour…
"We'll issue you a Credit Card. If stuck, you pay with that."
I HAVE TO PAY UP FRONT, IN CASH, YOU STUPID LITTLE TW**!
He didn't bat an eye-lid. Just shoved me up a form.
"The architectural salvage trade," I said, "… it's sometimes off the norm …"
… but Spotted Dick was rambling on, like a parrot high on Speed.
"There's X percent for drawing cash, the rate will make you bleed.
I send the form off - guaranteed, you'll know within three weeks."
Oh, Mr Hawkins, please come back, and sack these spotty Geeks.
We always need the cash up front, we in the salvage trade.
It might not fit the profile, but an honest bob is made,
… and who else can we turn to, when our money's with the bankers?
A post-grad. Ear-ringed, with tattoo. I tell you, they're all …
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 WISHLIST ANTIQUES AUCTION, AND STOCK OF THE LATE JOHN HOBBS
Dreweatts are to hold a sale of 130 lots of the remaining stock of the late John Hobbs, comprising of marble, antique furniture and furnishings. Also in the sale are lots from Richard Stevenson's Wishlist Antiques, among which is the Austin & Seeley figure of Phocion, top lot in the sale estimated at £10,000 - £15,000.
The catalogue description states, 'Phocian the Good is a reconstituted stone model, mid 19th century, by Austin and Seeley, the general's helmeted head turned slightly to sinister, above the draped torso, his weight on his left leg, against a tree stump on an integral square section base, raised on a square section plinth, the figure 230cm high, the plinth 94cm high, 324cm high overall Phocian was a statesman and strategos of Athens during the Macedonian expansion into the city states to the south. He lived til he was 84, having occupied the most important Athenian offices of state for much of his life. Austin & Seeley were the biggest manufacturer of garden ornaments and statues in artificial stone in England in the mid 19th century. Their material was a mixture of Portland cement, ground stone, pulverised marble and coarse sand. From 1826 onwards the sculptor Felix Austin worked with marble memorials in numerous churches and in circa 1840 he teamed up with John Seeley to form Austin & Seeley. The model in this lot appears in the SPECIMEN BOOK OF AUSTIN & SEELEY'S ARTIFICIAL STONE MANUFACTORY, 1841'
The sale will be held at 12pm on Tuesday 19th April 2011 at Donnington Priory.
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OBITUARY: JOHN WALKER
We regret to announce the death of John Walker of John Walker Antiques, latterly of Rait, Perthshire on 15th March 2011. The Antiques Trade Gazette wrote that he started in 1971 and developed a distinctive style and a stock of quality antiques from summer houses to snuff boxes, specialising in country house furniture and furnishings. John Walker Antiques will continue to trade as a family business.
Gordon Jell of Borders Architectural wrote, 'John or Johnnie Walker (as in the whisky) was the one true honest antiques dealer in the game. He despised Newark, a funfair he would say. He firmly believed that a dealer should pay his shop rates and that the trade should come to him. He was a patriot who believed in nationalism and he detested imports and globalisation. He specialised in Georgian antiques with an excellent eye for architectural gems. He was a dealer par excellence to the trade and enjoyed the crack more than the profit. His pride in his daughter gaining a place at university (in the days before all and sundry were accepted) was a joy to behold. He traded first in Newcastle and then Hexham before repairing to the Highlands when his sprogs graduated. Tho' so far away he'd always call in for the crack on his way up and down to visit relatives on Tyneside. I will miss him. My heartfelt condolences to all his family.'
Please feel free to add recollections and condolences to the message book below
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 WELL-ESTABLISED ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUES BUSINESS FOR SALE
The owner of Materials Unlimited in Ypsilante has been trying to sell the business and its building for over a year. Reynold Lowe, who started the company over 40 years ago, has recently changed tactics by listing the business and building with the same estate agent, Charles Reinhart Co, instead of two separate ones.
The three storey, 16,800sqft, art deco building is on sale for $845,000. The business, its stock and the building are now listed together at a reduced price of $1.7 million.
Sales were up by thirteen percent between August 2009 and August 2010. And the last six months have seen a twenty percent increase. Lowe says "It's because of our marketing, our website and people no longer have the doom and gloom syndrome."
For more info: Materials Unlimited, 2 W Michigan Avenue, Ypsilante, MI 48197. Telephone 800 299 9462 or Reinhart Realtors on 800 442 4404.
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 SALVAGE AT HOMEBUILDING SHOW
Last weekend's Homebuilding and Renovating Show had a new architectural salvage section next to the Period Living Pavilion. Five businesses, from the South of England, took part in creating a new salvage yard area; Woodstone from Surrey, Cox's Yard from Gloucestershire, The Old Radiator Company from Sussex, Olliffs Architectural from Bristol and Source Antiques from Somerset. The Show was very busy every day and it is thought there were more than the 35,000 visitors of last year.
Emma Farrington from Period Living helped to put together the salvage area. She said "I am really proud of the effort everyone put in to bring reclamation and restoration to the show. The salvage area and period pavilion looked fantastic."
Nick and Donna Cowen from Antique Baths of Ivybridge, Devon were in the Period Living Pavilion. On the Thursday trade day, they said "After a two year break, we're back here again. We've been really busy since January, with a few really interesting projects; working on bathrooms at the Tregothan Estate in Cornwall that sells tea, and for the Earl of Shaftesbury at his St Giles House in Dorset."
Lou Cronin from Woodstone and the Original Homestore said "We had a fabulous response from visitors at the show - everyone loved the mixture we have of new and old pieces - and the overall feel was that people were really excited to see something a bit different from the High Street. It was a great opportunity for us to introduce our store to a totally new range of people and it seems to have worked as the phone has been red hot since we got back!"
Woodstone, Cox's Yard, Antique Baths of Ivybridge and Period Living will all be Salvo Fair 2011, 24-26 June, Knebworth House, Hertfordshire.
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BBC LOOKING FOR SALVAGE STARS
BBC Bristol is looking for antiques dealers, traders, architectural salvagers, house clearance specialists, upcyclers, restorers, runners or other specialists for a potential new series following the interesting world of people who work with collectables, antiques or items that have a value... and a story.
We are looking for a business (ideally family run, but not necessarily) that does sourcing, evaluating, buying and selling of architectural salvage, or trading of antiques and reclaimed goods. We'd like to find a team with a great camaraderie, with a range of different expertise in-house or access to wider pool of experts you contact for specialist jobs. We'd like a mix of personalities and people who are are on the front line of hunting down the treasures that crop up.
Please do to get in touch if you are always on the hunt for valuables, if you regularly get out to evaluate or if you have members of the public or trade bringing lots of interesting pieces to you to get a price. Maybe you've got a really interesting house clearance coming up or a site you'll be evaluating for salvage in the next couple of weeks?
If you are interested in speaking to us about what you do, please contact matt.stimpson at bbc dot co.uk or dominique.cutts at bbc dot co.uk. Send us a brief description of your business, what you do from day to day, who works there and what type of areas you specialise in (or a link to your website), along with a contact number and we'll get in touch.
Many thanks! Matt Stimpson, BBC Bristol Development team, BBC Broadcasting House, Room A2.1, Bristol BS8 2LR. Extension: 47501
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 RECLAIMED WALLING STONE PROMOTION PLANNED FOR THE SALVO FAIR TRADE DAY
An extra event being organised at this year's Salvo Fair has been named the 'Reclaimed Stone Park'. Dealers in reclaimed stone are invited to bring samples of their reclaimed walling stone to the Salvo Fair on the trade day, Friday 24th June. The aim is to encourage the reuse of more reclaimed stone by showing the varieties, qualities and quantities available to invited design professionals, builders, developers, specifiers, buyers, demolition contractors and the construction press to meet some of the key players in the reclaimed stone trade, to see what is available in their yards around Britain, and to discuss their projects.
Salvo hopes to attract an enclave of more than twenty reclaimed stone dealers with pickups, trailers or low flatbeds with stone samples, for free pitches in the 'Reclaimed Stone Park' which will be set up for one day only on the Friday trade day. To apply please contact Salvo on 01225 422300 to book your pitch as soon as possible.
As part of the promotion of the Reclaimed Stone Park, Salvo will be circulating a background briefing to the design, construction and home interest press which will include statistics for the UK reclaimed walling trade taken from the BigREc Surveys in 1997 and 2008. Reclaimed walling stone sales in the UK in 1998 were £35.2m for 1.1m tonnes (BigREc Survey 1997). In 2007 sales had dropped to £21.6m and volumes had halved to 575,000 tonnes (BigREc Survey 2008). The average price per tonne increased from £32 in 1998 to £38 in 2007. In the surveys reclaimed walling stone comprised of mainly random rubble or pitch-faced stone much of it backed-off and redressed, with some coursed, and a small amount of ashlar, quoins, cills and lintels.
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FSC WATCH EXPOSES WEAKNESS IN FSC CERTIFICATION
Last week's SalvoNEWS story 'B&Q giant claims all its timber is now from renewable sources' drew some tweets from Kate Jerrold in Bristol who found the article one-sided, almost an advert for B&Q, and sent a link to the FSC Watch website. FSC Watch critically monitors the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) activities and had a link to an Al Jazeera programme about the FSC and unsustainable logging in Latvia.
The film by Glenn Ellis is on the Al Jazeera website which states, 'The Baltic nation of Latvia is blessed with some of the most beautiful forests in the world, millions of square kilometres of pristine woodland that support a complex biodiversity of rare species of animals and plants. But with the Latvian economy in difficulties and the need for money pressing, those trees are being cut down at an alarming rate. Overseas demand for the timber is high, particularly in the UK, which takes almost two-thirds of Latvia's exports. Many of the products of the trade from furniture to wood pulp and paper are sold in the UK under a labelling scheme run by the FSC, an international NGO that certifies timber is being sustainably produced. Is that really true?'
On its website FSC Watch states, 'This site has been developed by a group of people, FSC supporters and members among them, who are very concerned about the constant and serious erosion of the FSC's reliability and thus credibility. The group includes Simon Counsell, one of the Founder Members of the FSC; Hermann Edelmann, working for a long term FSC member organisation; and Chris Lang, who has looked critically at several FSC certifications in Thailand, Laos, Brazil, USA, New Zealand, South Africa and Uganda - finding serious problems in each case. As with many other activists working on forests worldwide, we share the frustration that whilst the structural problems within the FSC system have been known for many years, the formal mechanisms of governance and control, including the elected Board, the General Assembly, and the Complaints Procedures have been highly ineffective in addressing these problems. The possibility of reforming - and thus 'saving' - the FSC through these mechanisms is, we feel, declining, as power within the FSC is increasingly captured by vested commercial interest. We feel that unless drastic action is taken, the FSC is doomed to failure. Part of the problem, in our analysis, is that too few FSC members are aware of the many profound problems within the organisation. The FSC Secretariat continues to pour out 'good news stories' about its 'successes', without acknowledging, for example, the numerous complaints against certificates and certifiers, the cancellation of certificates that should never have been awarded in the first place, the calls for FSC to cease certifying where there is no local agreement to do so, the walk-outs of FSC members from national processes because of their disillusionment with the role of the economic chamber, etc. etc. etc. There has been no honest evaluation of what is working and what is not what working in the FSC, and no open forum for discussing these issues. This website is an attempt to redress this imbalance. The site will also help people who are normally excluded from the FSC's processes to express their views and concerns about the FSC's activities.'
In March 2010, FSC Watch added, 'A couple of people have requested that we explain why we are focussing on FSC rather than PEFC. Shortly after starting FSC-Watch we posted an article titled: FSC vs PEFC: Holy cows vs the Emperor's new clothes. Many people are aware of serious problems with FSC, but don't discuss them publicly because the alternative to FSC is even worse. The alternative, in this case is PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) and all the other certification schemes (Cerflor, Certflor, the Australian Forestry Standard, the Malaysian Timber Certification Council and so on). One person has suggested that we should set up PEFC-Watch, in order "to be even-handed". The trouble with this argument is that PEFC et al have no credibility. No NGOs, people's organisations or indigenous peoples' organistations were involved in setting them up. Why bother spending our time monitoring something that amounts to little more than a rubber stamp? One way of countering all these other schemes would be to point out that FSC is better. But, if there are serious problems with FSC - which there are, and if we can see them, so can anyone else who cares to look - then the argument starts to look very shaky.
FSC standards aren't bad (apart from Principle 10, which really isn't much use to anyone except the pulp and paper industry). They say lots of things we'd probably want forest management standards to say. The trouble is that the standards are not being applied in practice. Sure, campaign against PEFC, but if FSC becomes a Holy Cow which is immune to criticism (not least because all the criticism takes place behind closed doors), then we can hardly present it as an alternative, can we?..." By the way, anyone who thinks that PEFC and FSC are in opposition should read this interview with Heiko Liedeker (FSC's Executive Director) and Ben Gunneberg (PEFC's General Secretary). In particular this bit (I thought at first it must be a mix up between FSC and PEFC, or Liedeker and Gunneberg): Question: As a follow-up question, Heiko Liedeker, from your perspective, is there room ultimately for programs like the Australian Forestry Standard, Certfor and others to operate under the FSC umbrella? Heiko Liedeker: Absolutely. FSC was a scheme that was set-up to provide mutual recognition between national standard-setting initiatives. Every national initiative sets its standard. Some of them are called FSC working groups, some of them are called something else. In the UK they are called UKWAS. We've been in dialogue with Edwardo Morales at Certfor Chile. They are some of the FSC requirements listed for endorsement, we certainly entered into discussion. We've been in discussion with the Australian Forestry Standard and other standard-setting initiatives. What FSC does not do is, it has one global scheme for recognizing certification. So we do not, and that's one of the many differences between FSC and PEFC, we do not require the development of a certification program as such. A standard-setting program is sufficient to participate in the network.'
With respect to Al Jazeera's Latvia programme Kingfisher Plc, owner of B&Q, stated, 'FSC remains our preferred certification scheme - being the closest to meeting our policy expectations, as well as being the scheme that is best understood by our customers. In August 2011 we wrote to our Latvian suppliers as soon as the loss of their FSC certificate was announced. We have been working with the FSC since then to offer assistance in encouraging the Latvian state forests back into the fold. All Latvian sourced timber in B&Q UK is FSC sourced. For FSC products we rely on FSC auditing and we have resident timber experts who have undertaken extensive verification of our timber data.'
The FSC's director Charles Thwait said that LVM, the state-owned Latvia timber company, 'has no FSC certificates issued to it that allow it to claim that its forests are either FSC certified in full or are covered by a controlled wood forest management certificate. It is possible that some timber from LVM's woodland is entering the supply chain as controlled wood, but this would have had to be especially risk-assessed on its own merits. LVM does have a chain-of custody certificate that allows it to pass controlled wood on as a dealer, so to speak. However, this is not at all the same as saying that all their forests have 'blanket' controlled wood clearance. A chain-of-custody certificate only allows LVM to pass on timber as FSC-controlled wood from any source that had been properly risk-assessed as falling within the rules.'
Editor's note: I am grateful to Kate Jerrold for informing me about FSC Watch which we did not know about. We had checked to see if B&Q's claims had been commented on via Google, which it had not. SalvoNEWS will continue to report green claims, green issues and greenwash for the benefit of its readership. Our intention is not to promote bogus claims but to inform readers of what is being said.
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