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Wolfgang Ganter and Kay Aune’s Trash (2010)Lot 6641 cast iron entrance gates made £1,600The Elliott Street project is one of five vacant homes set aside by the city of Syracuse for deconstruction.  This 2102 square foot detached family home built in 1905 has six bedrooms and two bathroomsAdam style ornament - the plasterer's demiseCoffee table made from reclaimed wood from Dhow boats
Industrial reclaimed materials at City Museum, St LouisTelephone bidder at Summers Place (er no, actually Aristotle) [photo: Summers Place AuctionsCabfab workshopEcoRad electric cast iron radiatorExample of big box ad in eSalvo for Steve Shirley, click on it to see actual sizeLot 6929: Carved keystone from a London house believed to be inhabitated by Jimi Hendrix est £200-£300'For Whom' 2008, Kris Martin, Art Basel Miami Beach, US
ICE: Increasing local reuse of building materialsReclaimed Delabole roof slates [source: Trenoweth RoofingAntique Holophane lampshades from Edward Haes, LancashireRalph Laurens Colorado ranch [photo AD 

SPOT THE TRAINSPOTTERS PROJECT
Ahead of the game in the restaurant and shop fitting industry, Trainspotters has supplied caged Czech factory pendant lights to the trendy clothes brand Religion in a new wholesale showroom in the east end of London.
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Date Created : 18 Nov 2010 13:48:58
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MICHELIN MAN STAINED GLASS AMNESTY
Before the outbreak of World War II, the stained glass panels at the front and sides of Michelin House, 81 Fulham Rd, London were removed to a basement in Michelin's Stoke-on-Trent factory for safekeeping. Unfortunately they went missing.

Michelin say "We last heard of the panels in the 1960's. We think that somebody may have 'borrowed' the panels to prevent any further damage. We'd like them back now please.

We've launched an amnesty to give people an opportunity to return the panels - or parts of them without any fear or worries. We'd just like to have them back.

What is seen in Michelin House today are exceptionally high quality modern recreations based on the best interpretations of tinted pictures and black and white photographs such as those above.

Get in touch on our confidential hotline 01782 402118. Our business hours are 08:30 to 17:30 Monday to Friday."

[source: michelinonline.co.uk]
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Location : UK > Staffordshire
Category : WINDOWS & accessories
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PERSPECTIVE AERIALS USE INNOVATIVE FLYING CAMERA
Will Carlton brought this video to our attention. A company called Perspective Aerials filmed some beautiful footage of the Craco Ruins, Basilicata using a camera attached to a specially made helicopter type aircraft. Will suggested the set up could be good for looking around unsafe demolition sites. Right on Will. We wonder how much it would cost?
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Location : Italy > Basilicata
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Date Created : 16 Nov 2010 12:09:28
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HARLINGEN BARRACKS CAREFULLY DISMANTLED FOR REUSE
Seventy years ago the WWII Harlingen barracks were built in a hurry. Some parts of the site were taken down a while later. Now the last sixteen buildings are coming down, eight of them being buildings from the 1940's. The Reuse People of America Inc. is in charge of the dismantling, with a team of sixteen unemployed people from Texas Workforce Solutions. The President, Ted Reiff, explains, "I'm teaching them what I call the art and science of deconstruction and building materials salvage". Some of the salvaged material will be used for the creation of new buildings on the same site including facilities for Texas A&M University-Kingsville, University of Texas-Brownsville and Texas Tech to provide "distance learning" programs and also a new engineering centre.
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Location : USA > Texas
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Wolfgang Ganter and Kay Aune’s Trash (2010)
AMUSING RUBBISH AND REFLECTIVE ARCHAEOLOGY IN THIS YEAR'S FRIEZE
Frieze art fair, held 14-17 October in Regent's Park, attracted 60,000 visitors, with 170 galleries from around the world, and resulted in purchases of modern art by collectors, buyers and museums, including this year the Tate gallery.

Salvage as art was in evidence, not least with guest Simon Fujiwara, who had two pieces at Frieze, London, presented history as theatre, one on General Franco and the other on archaeology. There was also an amusing animated and musical heap of rubbish by two German artists. Food for thought next time you are stuck for what to do with some leftover bits.

The links below include one to a series of video clips on Frieze from he Art Newspaper including Simon Fujiwara's Frozen, Aune and Ganter's Trash 2010, 10 embarassed men by Annika Ström, plus Grayson Perry, Boris Johnson, and many others.
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Wolfgang Ganter and Kay Aune’s Trash (2010)

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Lot 6641 cast iron entrance gates made £1,600
GAZE ARCHITECTURAL SALE RESULTS
The architectural salvage and statuary sale took place on Saturday at Diss Auction Rooms. Top lots included a carved travertine stone fountain with a group of six cherubs seated on rocks and exotic foliage that made £1,450. A pair of MacFarlane's Castings, Glasgow cast iron entrance gates with decorative end panels went for £1,600. Twenty four square yards of York stone paving from 'The Old Smithy' Hebdon bridge made £2,200. A set of eight stone steps went for £600 and a pair of period red terracotta chimney pots with Art Nouveau motifs also made £600.

The next sale is Bygones on 27th November.
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Lot 6641 cast iron entrance gates made £1,600 Lot 6851 A pair of period red terracotta chimney pots made £600 Lot 6664 York stone paving from 'The Old Smithy' Hebdon bridge sold at £2,200

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STOLEN STATUE TO BE REPLACED FOR THE FOURTH TIME
The statue of Joyance, by Sir William Goscombe John, in Canton's Thompson's Park was stolen in July. Cardiff Council will replace the statue with a replica made eighteen years ago that has been kept in storage.

Nigel Howells, Cardiff council's executive member for parks, said the replacement would not be installed until the city had received advice on installing security measures. He said: "We plan to install the replica statue, subject to advice from our insurers on any additional security measures, by the end of October. In addition, this timescale is dependent on how quickly we can get a cast made of the replica and at least one other copy made, which we think is sensible given the history of theft of this statue."

The latest version will be the fourth since the original statue of a boy playing with a stick and a snake was stolen around forty years ago.
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Location : UK > Glamorgan
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The Elliott Street project is one of five vacant homes set aside by the city of Syracuse for deconstruction.  This 2102 square foot detached family home built in 1905 has six bedrooms and two bathrooms
D-BUILD DECONSTRUCTIONS
D-Build has a page detailing up and coming deconstructions. "Deconstruction or Green Demolition is an alternative to traditional demolition which aims to salvage usable materials, parts and architectural details from homes and buildings which are being taken down." says D-Build. "The process of deconstruction recognizes the value in these materials and their accompanying history by diverting them from an otherwise finite life in a landfill and reintroducing / reintegrating them as a resource for artists, designers, architects and builders."

Materials from the deconstructions are available for sale in the D-Build online marketplace as they are, or manufactured into furniture.
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The Elliott Street project is one of five vacant homes set aside by the city of Syracuse for deconstruction.  This 2102 square foot detached family home built in 1905 has six bedrooms and two bathrooms

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Adam style ornament - the plasterer's demise
A REVIEW OF PLASTERING PLAIN AND DECORATIVE BY WILLIAM MILLAR
Plastering Plain and Decorative by William Millar

Donhead Publishing has reprinted in facsimile the book described as the plasterer's bible, Plastering Plain & Decorative, written by William Millar in the 1890s, and edited and revised in 1927 by George Bankart, an architect turned craftsperson in lead and plaster who worked with the Bromsgrove Guild and Ernest Gimson of the Arts & Crafts movement.

The first chapter, on the history of plaster, written by George Robinson, and the date of the book at the peak of the English Arts & Crafts movement, is affirmed in comments made about Robert Adam that 'very little work was left to the art of the plasterer' who chiefly cast 'monotonously repetitive' elements, and now 'it is no longer the plasterer who adorns the house - it is the compo man'.

Chapter 5 on modelling and design in relief, written by Bankart, shows photos of the author's own work inspired by poems of William Morris and installed in Exeter (could this be Bystock?). The panels, in light relief and cleverly done, are pre-Raphaelite in style but almost like Flaxman in their modelling. 'Another bad habit is working with a wet sponge and finger,' he writes, because it 'leaves the surface smooth and shiny'.

Chapter 6 on plaster tools gives common names, except for riffle files, and while most tools are owned by plasterers, employers usually supply files and rasps. There are group photos and drawings of plaster tools, including American ones from Goldblatt Tool Co of Kansas City. What is the difference between a larry and a rake? A larry or drag has three or four prongs with a handle of six to nine feet for mixing hair with coarse stuff and knocking it up for use, while a rake has a plain blade and is used for making setting stuff.

The book marches on through materials into composition, including gesso, papier-mâché, compo and carton-pierre, and where, among others we are treated to Walter Crane's recipe for gesso.

The last chapters on plasterers' memoranda gives quantities, weights and recipes. A bundle of split laths contains 360 running feet and will cover about five superficial yards, using 500 nails. Sawn laths are usually used in America. Pumice concrete weighs 70 lbs / cu ft, brick concrete 120 lbs, limestone concrete 130 lbs, slag concrete 140 lbw. Victorians used scrap material such as broken reclaimed brick to good effect. Plaster casts can be made extremely hard and tough (and able to take a polish) by adding pulverised marshmallow root to the mix, or by using gauging water in which marshmallow roots have been boiled. To make plaster look like polished marble, take clean skimmed milk and coat the figure until it will absorb no more, then lay it in a place free from dust until dry. Plaster gauged with milk and water will enable the casts to be polished. A hawk boy - 'now past history' the book says in 1897 - would wait on two plasterers, and could throw a serverful of stuff to a man on a scaffold ten foot high. Hawk boys were banned because 'knowing the names and uses of the tools, a cute boy developed into a so-called plasterer, to the detriment of apprenticeship'.

The appendix has developments in America including those of Mr. O. A. Malone, president and founder in 1927 of the Californian Stucco Products Co, and known as the man who put the colour into California with so-called 'Jazz Plaster'.

Early Christmas present anyone?

Reviewed by T Kay

Plastering Plain and Decorative
Facsimile of Fourth Edition, 1927
William Millar and George P Bankart
Hardback £65.00 $135.00
Publication date 20 May 2009
496 pages
ISBN 978 1 873394 87 8
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Plaster tools in the 1880s Adam style ornament - the plasterer's demise Plaster relief by Bankart in Exeter

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Coffee table made from reclaimed wood from Dhow boats
DHOWS THAT!
House of Wonders is a Portuguese furniture business producing items in Tanzania from the reclaimed timber of Dhow boats. Each piece is sold with a certificate of origin which includes the history of the boat that the timber came from.

Dhows are wooden boats of ancient design, once used for transporting goods between Tanzania and Zanzibar. 'While using salvaged wood with an interesting history is undoubtedly a clever move for any furniture maker, what's even more clever about House of Wonders' approach is making the most of that history with a certificate that explains each product's background'

[source Springwise - a business ideas website.
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Coffee table made from reclaimed wood from Dhow boats Three drawer side table made from reclaimed timber by House of Wonders

Location : Portugal
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Industrial reclaimed materials at City Museum, St Louis
ST LOUIS MUSEUM MADE OF ST LOUIS SALVAGE
City Museum, St Louis opened its doors in 1997. Since then it has grown into a wonderland including museum displays, caves, tunnels, playgrounds, sculpture park, aquarium, and the world's largest pencil! The museum was started by artist, Bob Cassilly and is housed inside a 600,000 square foot former International Shoe Company warehouse. Each attraction is made from unique, found objects.

Cassilly and his longtime crew of twenty artisans have constructed the museum from the very stuff of the city and, as a result, it has urban roots deeper than any other institutions. Reaching no further than municipal borders for its reclaimed building materials, City Museum boasts features such as old chimneys, salvaged bridges, construction cranes, miles of tile, and even two abandoned planes.

"City Museum makes you want to know," says Cassilly. "The point is not to learn every fact, but to say, 'Wow, that's wonderful.' And if it's wonderful, it's worth preserving."

Regeneration of Architecture Hall

Architecture Hall curator Bruce Gerrie has added to his collection of relics a new permanent exhibit entitled 'Elmslie and Sullivan'. It showcases original architectural pieces from the buildings of Louis Sullivan (considered the father of Modern Architecture) and his chief draftsman, George Grant Elmslie.

Also included in Gerrie's collection is a cross that once adorned the Alexian Brothers Hospital (the original location of The Exorcist) and a less-haunted collection of brass doorknobs, numerous gargoyles, ornamental terracotta from Chicago, and an impressive array of medallions.
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Industrial reclaimed materials at City Museum, St Louis Giant propeller on display in City Museum Adventure playground from reclaimed materials Architectural items of interest from the surrounding area at City Musuem

Location : USA > Missouri
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NEW EU 'TRUST MARK' FOR WEBSITES BACKED BY MEPS
Spanish MEP, Pablo Arias Echeverria, wrote a report calling for a new trust mark to reduce fraud and give consumers confidence when buying online. Proposals for the new logo had overwhelming support from the European Parliament.
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Location : Belgium > Brabant Brussels
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MAN JAILED FOR STEALING CHURCH BELLS
A 28 year old man from Dublin has been jailed for nine months for stealing church bells worth more than 45,000 euros. He claimed he thought they were scrap metal. The bells were being kept under cover in the church compound while work was done to the church steeple.
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Location : Ireland (Rep.) > Co Dublin
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Telephone bidder at Summers Place (er no, actually Aristotle) [photo: Summers Place Auctions
THE GOLDEN RULE IS THAT THE MAN WITH THE GOLD MAKES THE RULES
The live auction at Summers Place, Billingshurst, achieved 63 per cent sold by lot, with a hammer total of £842,100 for 81 lots, giving an average lot value of £8,458.

James Rylands, expert and auctioneer in charge, said, "The golden rule is that the man with the gold makes the rules. And at this sale that man was looking for modern sculpture, not cleaned white Victorian marble. There was a huge shift from twirly to contemporary." This shift might have been due to Summers Place's advertising at places like London's Freeze art fair. Outdoor modern sculpture was started at Summers Place eight years ago because James, and his business partner Rupert van der Werff, foresaw that the new millennium would bring a shift in clientele and tastes with minimalist interiors and exteriors which needed decorating with fossils and modern sculpture.

As an aside, James observed that animal fossils tend to be bought by male clients because mammoth tusks and animal fossils tend to be too gruesome for women who prefer plant fossils such as the crinoid plaques. "We need to change direction on fossils," Rylands said, "moving towards more spectacular higher value items."

This week's Art Newspaper led with 'dealers perform well, but auction houses are less strong'. "If this is true in our sector," Rylands said, "then I would be pleased if some of the trade are doing well. There is, and there needs to be, a synergy between the two. Dealers and auctioneers need each other." Dealers supply to auctions, and auctions market and sell to wealthy private clients. And this sale was no exception. The top lots were mostly bought by privates.

"Nine out of the ten top lots sold privately. There were fewer Russian, Arab and North Americans, this time replaced by South American, and due to the strength of the euro, Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss and other continental buyers. It seems that the credit crunch is not affecting the top end that much, and in general good things are still fetching good money. Although, there are fewer players and an air of caution from buyers.

"The trade are keener now than when we started Summers Place. These days a typical trader will consign around six lots. One will sell well in the live sale, and five will go in the sealed bid sale - of which two will do well, one will sell on reserve and two will not sell. The sealed bid auction achieved 46 per cent sold by lot."

Summers Place private clients are now getting used to the idea of the sealed bid auction. "We tell them to be sensible - if they do not win at one sale, another one be along next time. The sealed bid section is not an exercise in trying to extract as much money as possible."

In the live auction a carved Portland stone bust of Aristotle was one of the centres of attention of unknown provenance, although a lot of work had been done to try to pin it down. It had a Christie's style four page catalogue entry with many words and speculative possibilities to confer gravitas on the piece, which worked when it sold for £17,900 against a £5k low estimate (all sold prices include premiums, and the estimate is the low estimate given). Mr. Rylands pointed out that English carved stone busts are very rare. He thought it may have been carved for a stately home 'temple of worthies' or that kind of thing. This was the only top ten lot which sold to the trade - a UK dealer.

Top antique sculpture lot was a 19thC French terracotta figure of Flora by an unknown maker, with restorations, consigned from the New Jersey estate of Doris Duke, the 'richest girl in the world', which sold for a mid-estimate £24,500 to a European private.

Top architectural lot was a set of six late 19thC German stained glass panels of a seated Flora from an unheard of glass painter, Ferdinand Müller of Quedlinburg in Saxony, which sold for a mid-estimate £23,900 to a UK private.

Top lot of the sale, and top antique garden lot, was a pair of c1860 High Victorian carved Cotswold stone seats - like the Aristotle bust - very rarely seen. In fact, Sotheby's and Summers Place have only had one other pair of carved stone seats in the past twenty years. They were believed to come from Northamptonshire and were lacking plinth blocks. They sold for £52,100 to a UK private.

A consignment bought from Rathmore Golf Club of seven two ton pieces of hexagonal basalt, catalogued as from Giants Causeway, caused a furore in Northern Ireland, with much media attention and even a live radio debate between James Rylands and an outraged National Trust spokeswoman. Giants Causeway has been in National Trust hands since the 1960s but there was no evidence of when, or exactly from where, the basalt was removed. There are other outcrops which occur on land outside NT control, but The basalt pillars at Giants Causeway range in size from a foot in diameter to the ones in this lot which were more like five feet in diameter. The golf club had used them to demarcate the club car park. They sold below the £20k estimate for £18,500 to a European private.

BBC comment: The Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland's top tourist attraction with 750,000 visitors a year, was declared a World Heritage site by Unesco in 1986. It has been owned by the National Trust since 1961. A new £18.5 million visitors' centre is due to open in 2012. A trust spokeswoman said the removal of stones from the site would be in breach of conservation regulations. She said: "Naturally, as custodians of the Giant's Causeway World Heritage site, we are disappointed to see basaltic columns for auction. That said, we cannot actually prove they are from the World Heritage site, or if, or when, they would have been from the Giant's Causeway." Rathmore Golf Club sold the stones last year for a nominal fee to a keen gardener who sold them on to a man in England. It is thought the stones may have been taken from the world-famous tourist attraction on the north coast of Northern Ireland several decades ago.

Rylands said that in this sale that the six bridges outstripped demand. Normally they have two for sale. Demand seems to be higher for smaller bridges - 9 or 10 feet span. Top bridge was £8,250.

Top contemporary lot, and third overall, was Wenqin Chen's 'Triple Infinity Curve' which sold for £34,100 to a US private. Chen has made single curves before but this is the first triad which Summers Place has sold. His fat chrome tubes resonate with some of Anish Kapoor's stuff. Second highest was 'Acrobat', as James described it, a fantastic combo of angularity and roundness by Isaac Khan which sold for £25,700 to a US private. Other modern sculptors who sold well were Ronald Holmes, Helen Sinclair and Ann Vrielinck who sold three pieces well above estimate in the sealed bid sale. The wealthy clients who come to Summers Place for their contemporary, fossil antique do not cohabit three distinct groupings but swap around, it would seem mainly moving out of antique and into contemporary as opposed to the other way around.

Summers Place next auction is in May 2011.
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Telephone bidder at Summers Place (er no, actually Aristotle) [photo: Summers Place Auctions Giant's Causeway stones [photo: Summers Place Auctions

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Cabfab workshop
RECLAIMED TIMBER TAGGING SYSTEM LAUNCHED
TImber from the an old warehouse in Syracuse is stacked up ready to be used for making into furniture and kitchen cabinets by Cabfab. Each piece of timber is bar coded. By 'snapping' the bar code on your mobile phone, you are linked through to D-Build's website, where you are shown information on where the piece of timber came from. Eventually it will be possible to see not just the provenance, but information on who worked there, how the building was deconstructed and what else was made from the piece of wood.
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EcoRad electric cast iron radiator
ECORAD CONVERT CAST IRON RADIATORS TO ELECTRICITY
Innovative and environmentally friendly processes have been developed by EcoRad to transform cast iron radiators.

EcoRad say the advantages of their electric radiator system include, "programmable individual thermostats, heat absorbing capacity, more energy efficient than traditional hot-water or steam heating systems, fire proof, healthier and more comfortable heat than forced air or convection heating systems, environmentally responsible and use materials that are 99 percent recycled"

"The installation is as simple as an electric baseboard heater." EcoRad say, "A specially manufactured internally installed electric element replaces the extensive water piping
system needed for a central furnace. Having each radiator connected to a programmable thermostat allows heating preferences by room as opposed to one central setting."

"Recycling old cast iron radiators avoids the practice of melting them down and releasing 44kg of greenhouse gases for each 100kg of melted cast iron. Household radiators weigh on average, 100 to 200kg."
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Location : Canada > Quebec
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Example of big box ad in eSalvo for Steve Shirley, click on it to see actual size
ESALVO ADVERTISING DISCOUNT FOR NOVEMBER
Get your message through to over 3,000 salvage keenies!

PRE-CHRISTMAS OFFER: Five weeks for the price of three. Big display ad £60 plus vat for 5 weeks. Small display ad £30 plus vat for 5 weeks.

We can make your ad for you. Display ads are linked through to your webpage. Call Ruby Kay from Salvo on 01225 422300.
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Lot 6929: Carved keystone from a London house believed to be inhabitated by Jimi Hendrix est £200-£300
GAZE LOTS LINKED WITH HENDRIX AND ST PAUL'S
Gaze: Architectural Salvage and Statuary: Saturday 6th November

Taking place this Saturday at Diss Auctions Rooms, Norfolk is the T W Gaze Architectural Salvage and Statuary sale. The 928 lot sale includes plenty of weathered garden ornament and statuary, terracotta pots, architectural ironwork; cast iron balustrades, hoop top railings and gates, reclaimed building materials, including York stone from St Pauls Catherdral and 'The Old Smithy' Hebdon Bridge. Other items of interest include a carved stone keystone from a London square where Jimmy Hendrix is believed to have lived for a time.

Diss Auction Rooms, Roydon Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4LN
Contact Carl Willows or Rob Kinsella on 01379 650 306
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Lot 6929: Carved keystone from a London house believed to be inhabitated by Jimi Hendrix est £200-£300 Lot 6611: Chiltern Italian curved bench on three moulded supports est £250-£375 Lot 6638: Fire surround fully tiled with Delft floral tiles from Weasenham Estate est £150-£200 Lot 6045 Tray of small terracotta pots est £20-£30

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'For Whom' 2008, Kris Martin, Art Basel Miami Beach, US
ANTIQUE BELL WANTED BY WHITE CUBE ARTIST
Kris Martin, a 38 year old Belgian contemporary artist, has been scouring the continent for church bells of epic proportions. The search included a SalvoWEB wanted ad which threw up a few contenders. Unfortunately none of them were quite big enough. Hayley Embleton from the White Cube gallery in Hoxton Square, London says "We are looking for a bell, bronze preferably, with a minimum diameter of 40 inches."

Martin has produced two other artworks that include bells. 'For Whom' is a 14ft high steel frame that supports a huge old brass church bell with a diameter of 64 inches. "Whether by marking its passing or transcending the present Kris Martin's practice questions the notion of time and our desire to comprehend it. His diverse use of the readymade from the antique relic to the highly engineered or more ephemeral and immaterial interventions provoke a space for uncertainty, enquiry and existential reasoning."

For those with bells that might fit the bill, email Hayley on hayley(at)whitecube(dot)com preferable with dimensions and photographs.
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ICE: Increasing local reuse of building materials
UK SOCIAL ENTREPRISE BUILDING MATERIAL REUSE NETWORKS
A report by Jonathan Essex and Cara Whelan calls for the creation of a national network of social enterprise, surplus construction material, reuse it yourself centres (REiY) 'to increase reuse and maximise value retained in waste materials on construction and demolition sites'.

Saving reusable new material from construction sites makes sense.

The existing social enterprise REiY sector is small compared to the traditional salvage sector. The traditional architectural salvage sector was employing 40,000 people in the 1990s, and 25,000 in the mid 2000s (BigRec Surveys 1998 and 2007) including both direct employees, and indirect employment of deconstruction teams, runners, transporters, restorers, converters and recrafters. Despite the recession, the existing architectural salvage sector still saves millions of tonnes annually of antique, reclaimed and salvaged material.

At a guess, the existing REiY sector, including the wood recycling network set up by Richard Mehmet (of Brighton Wood Recycling), employs fewer than 250 people and saves a thousand tonnes of material annually.

The report proposes that yards should be established in every UK town and city taking newer or brand new unused surplus material and 'supplying a significant flow of materials to the DIY market'.

Clearly it would be good for every UK town and city to have a salvage yard (and many do), but the model outlined in the report need not be the only one. Salvo would like to see the existing salvage getting involved too.

The inspiration for this report are the ReStores organised by Habitat for Humanity in the USA where, the report states, 'this [network] already exists, with a national Building Material Reuse Association (BMRA) linking up over 500 such [social] enterprises'.

This report has scoured known sources of UK data to give a good snapshot and breakdown of volumes of different types of material arising, from which source, and some information about possible carbon savings. It covers the basics of reuse, Site Waste Management Plans, business plans for REiY centres, web exchanges and case studies, together with a comprehensive reference section.

One of the authors, Jonathan Essex, helped to obtain £500,000 funding for the UK's first official REiY centre which opened in Croydon this year as a bolt-on to a social enterprise white goods and furniture recycling centre.

'Increasing local reuse of building materials' was published by the Institute of Civil Engineers in Waste and Resource Management 163 in the November 2010 and costs £30.


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Salvo's proposal: Surplus Salvage Centres within existing traditional salvage yards.

With respect to Jonathan Essex's report, Salvo would like to encourage traditional salvage yards to start their own small social entreprise Surplus Salvage Centres which would be separate entities embedded within their existing salvage operations, under a charter agreed by members, and operating as part of a national network. Salvo would help to organise the network.

How would it work?
- An area would be set aside for the Surplus Salvage Centre within part of the traditional salvage yard, either as exterior or internal space which could be small or large, and clearly demarcated.
- Local builders, construction projects, and local authorities would be contacted to be asked for unused building material which would otherwise be skipped - such as new surplus bricks, drains, roof tiles, timber, doors and windows - and which would be donated to the Surplus Salvage Centre.
- The transport and labour costs of moving the material from site to salvage yard would be paid by the donor
- The Surplus Salvage Centre would be advertised locally and will be on an internet network set up by Salvo.
- Money from sales would be ploughed back into Surplus Salvage Centres.
- Local authorities and social procurers would be asked to buy material from the Surplus Salvage Centre instead of buying new.
- The Surplus Salvage Centre would employ people at the margins of society.
- A record of material saved and reused would be kept, together with a record of types of people and numbers employed.
- Salvo will aggregate the totals from all Surplus Salvage Centres and present that information to local and national government to claim payments to offset the network's costs.

What's in it for the salvage yard?
- Better communications with the local construction network which could result in more purchasing and sale of traditional reclaimed material
- Kudos with the local social services, local authority, local press radio and TV may result in more sales for the traditional reclaimed material for that salvage yard
- Possibly 80% rate reduction on part of the salvage yard used for the Surplus Salvage Centre, and even the possibility of free or cheap premises rental.
- Financial assistance for training and employment development as part of a sustainable management strategy.
- Grants or payments for landfill diversion and carbon emissions reduction.
- Benefits of being part of a national network of Surplus Salvage Centres

In the text above 'salvage dealer' is defined in the broadest possible sense. All are welcome to join, from the high end Bond Street showroom to the smallest demolition yard, but you must have a fixed premises of some sort.

Salvo is looking for expressions of interest from twenty or more salvage dealers. Please contact Thornton Kay by email or on 020 8400 6222 in the first instance.
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Reclaimed Delabole roof slates [source: Trenoweth Roofing
RULES FOR RECLAIMED ROOF SLATES
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From L. W.
4 October 2010

Hi,

What are the rules for selling reclaimed roof slates in the UK? I work for a UK construction company and we are going to be removing some slates from an old building that could be reused. Normally, when we get rid of waste, we have to have the licence number of the site taking the waste as part of our Duty of Care.  However, there are also rules which cover second hand goods and seem to be a little less prescriptive.  As you say, a vexed issue without clear direction which leads to unnecessary bureaucracy in an attempt not to fall foul of the law.

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L. W.
Environmental advisor

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25 October 2010

Dear L. W.,

If you sell the slates to a salvage dealer, a business, charity or institution neither consumer laws nor waste laws apply.

If you sell the reclaimed roof slates to a private individual, consumer laws do apply but waste laws do not apply.

If you give the slates away to a private individual, consumer laws do not apply. Waste laws do not apply if that private individual reuses the slates. Waste laws do apply if that private individual does not reuse them and disposes of them as waste.

UK waste laws must comply with EU environmental laws, in particular the 2008 EU Waste Framework Directive, which is clear that the reuse of a reclaimed product is outside of the EU waste framework. "Preparing for reuse' is included in the WFD, but only in the positive sense that reuse must be encouraged by government, and must be considered first before recycling, waste to energy and disposal to landfill. Under EU law, your company is under a legal obligation to reclaim the slates, and sell them for reuse, or reuse them itself, as a priority before recycling or landfill are considered.

The removal of old slates from a building, and their reuse on the same site, or their sale to a salvage dealer or other reuser, requires no waste management license to handle them or store them, nor a waste transfer note to move them. It would be prudent to keep a record of the receipt for money received by your company for the slates, with the buyer's name and address, just in case. Also, chain of custody can be important to salvage dealers for the resale of reclaimed building materials, and a receipt provides evidence for this. So too might a photographic record.

The sale of reclaimed roof slates stands outside Site Waste Management Plans because the slates are not waste. You could however include them on the SWMP for completeness of records but remember to place 'n/a' (not applicable) in the boxes about waste transfer notes and waste management licenses.

From the point of view of saving of carbon emissions, it would be necessary to record the final location of the reused slates so that you can provide evidence of a claim by your company for having helped to save carbon emissions (and other environmental impacts). Only part of the emissions saving should be claimed, because the dealer chain and end reuser would also share part of the claim for emissions savings. There is as yet no convention for how to allocate the emissions savings across the supply chain.

If, in the future, the reclaimed slates which your company has sold do not get reused but end up being recycled or landfilled, the point at which the decision to reuse them is changed to a decision to recycle or send them to landfill, is the point at which the slates must legally be considered waste, and the person who makes that decision is the legally responsible party, not your company.

Your company can advertise the slates prior to removal on SalvoWEB as a 'Demolition and Dismantling Alert', or as a 'For Sale' ad after they have been removed.

Yours sincerely,
Thornton Kay
Salvo Llp

P.S. From 15 November 2010 Site Waste Management Plans are mandatory for developments over £300,000. See the link below.

[Disclaimer: This reply from Salvo is informed opinion only. If in doubt seek legal advice
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Antique Holophane lampshades from Edward Haes, Lancashire
POTTED HISTORY OF THE HOLOPHANE COMPANIES
In 1893, the French engineer and physicist André-Eugène Blondel (1863-1938), with the help of a Greek engineer, Spyridon Psaroudaki, invented the prismatic lens lampshade, and started the Holophane Company of France, the word Holophane coming from the Greek 'holos' for whole, and 'phane' for light. The Holophane lampshade gave an even light by using the principle of a Fresnel lighthouse lens, the invention of which is credited to Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827), a scientist and French commissioner for lighthouses, and was first used in 1823 at Cordouan in the Gironde estuary. Borosilicate glass was used, also known as Pyrex, which has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion making the lampshade very resistant to thermal shock and stress.

In 1896 a British company licensed Holophane's patent and started Holophane Ltd in the UK. In 1898 American businessman Otis Mygatt bought Holophane Ltd and started the Holophane Glass Company Inc, New York. At the outset, neither the USA nor UK company could manufacture the glass, so they started simply by marketing and selling the French product.

In 1902, Otis Mygatt arranged for Heisey Glasswork Co in Newark, Ohio, to start production of Holophane lampshades, which it continued to do until 1997. Mygatt's initiative came at a time when U.S. industry needed strong and efficient factory lighting to make night shifts possible and enable workers to fabricate precise parts requiring brightly lit conditions. In 1906 Holophane established the Illuminating Engineering Society to advance scientific lighting, a role it played into the 1990s.

For its English branch, Otis Mygatt teamed up with a French entrepreneur, Mr. Froget, specialising in the manufacture of moulds for the rubber industry to create a company in 1920 in Paris for the manufacture of moulds for glass which, by 1921, was producing lampshades in a glass plant in Les Andelys, between Rouen and Paris, where Holophane SA is still located.

Holophane comprised a U.S. entity, Holophane Glass Co Inc, with its own means of production for products in the United States, the UK Holophane Limited, with a worldwide sales territory excluding only the United States, without means of production, the Société Anonyme Holophane or Holophane SA, located on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, which managed the production at the English-owned factory in Les Andelys.

In 1930, Otis Mygatt sold his shares in the three Holophane entities.

Holophane SA was bought by Henri Balsan and became independent of the English and American companies, specialising in art glass, decorative glass, vases, glass sculptures, glass architecture, optical glass, headlights, and lanterns with reflectors of polished glass which differentiated the company from its competitors until about 1990. Holophane SA and Mazda, were the two largest players in the French market.

In 1965, the U.S. company bought Holophane Ltd. In 1971, Holophane Inc was bought by the American Johns-Manville. In 1989, the company was bought by a group of American venture capitalists which created a number of subsidiaries worldwide, including Holophane Europe Ltd in England for the European market.

Returning to the French society, from the late 1950s, Holophane SA designed residential lanterns, refracting spherical lanterns, and road lamps. In 1979, Holophane SA became Holophane and Europhane, still both producing in Les Andelys. In 1989, the British group Thorn EMI bought the two companies, and sold Holophane SA to the French company Sediver, a subsidiary of Italian Fidenza, and Holophane SA was renamed Europhane Thorn.

Holophane Europe Ltd in Buckinghamshire has made a video about the history of the development of holophane lighting which it has placed on YouTube. The earliest holophane prismatic borosilicate glass luminaires were designed for gas lighting during the 1890s. It became the lampshade of choice for public electric lighting in places such as churches, factory and industrial buildings.

[thanks to Skin Flint Design for the tip-off about Simon Cornwell and the Holophane video
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FIRST NFDC DEMOLITION DAY RATED A SUCCESS
Howard Button, CEO of the UK National Federation of Demolition Contractors, was congratulated on the success of the launch of the Demolition Day held in Docklands, and conceived by him as a conference designed to highlight the benefit of using NFDC members to undertake demolition work. The one-day event attracted 220 delegates and 25 exhibitors in what was claimed to be the largest national demolition event outside the USA.

Most of the speakers were filmed on video and are on the Demolition News website (see link below).

NFDC members are now required to keep a record of annual arisings to help the federation keep track of changes in material flows. Howard Button gave a talk on the recent decline in recycling rates which he he believed was due to the rise in demolition of buildings built using composite material which is harder to breakdown into recyclable constituents. He also commented on the shift in patterns of demand for reusable timber. "No-one wants wood these days," he said. Mr. Button also outlined the NFDC's new Site Audit Scheme which sets safety benchmarks for accredited members.

Gary Bishop, MD of Bromley Demolition and NFDC vice-president, gave a talk on reclamation and recycling on smaller projects which showed workers reclaiming bricks, and made the point that reclamation and salvage was often where Bromley Demolition's profit came from. Some wood was shown being recycled, and other timber was resawn and sold for flooring, but it was not clear from the video whether this was done inhouse or if the unconverted beams were sold to salvage dealers who then converted, stored, marketed and sold it. Viewers may be slightly startled by the amazing soundtrack to Mr. Bishop's video which is in a genre known as hardcore house.

A single adverse comment was placed on the Demolition News web page, from Bob Finch, a non-NFDC demolition contractor, who said that he could not see why the NFDC were allowed to monopolise the demolition market, a statement robustly denied in a follow-up comment by Howard Button.
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RON ALLAN TO CLOSE THE BRASS KNOB BACK DOORS WAREHOUSE IN WASHINGTON D.C.
The Brass Knob Back Doors Warehouse, after 30 years as Washington D.C.'s main architectural salvage store, is closing down and is now holding a four week liquidation sale.

Former partner Donetta George, of The Brass Knob, writes, "Yes, we are now two separate businesses. I own the Brass Knob Architectural Antiques and Ron Allan owns The Brass Knob Back Doors Warehouse. We split in 2005 when the Back Doors moved out of Adams Morgan. We both had worked so hard to build the name we decided to keep 'The Brass Knob' in the name of both businesses, even though it is somewhat confusing. At the moment the store on 18th is safe, but these are very difficult times. Adams Morgan is going to be a mess for months because of the city's street construction project, so all the stores in the area are very nervous especially in these economic conditions.

"Needless to say, I am very sad about the Back Doors closing. Ron Allan deserves a lot of credit for all he has done with The Brass Knob before and after the two businesses split. He had the inspiration for starting the business and the energy to keep it going in the good and bad times. We just started a blog on our website and we put their sale information with a note on what a loss it is for DC."

Donetta set the scene on her blog:

"For 25 years The Brass Knob Architectural Antiques and The Brass Knob Back Doors Warehouse were the same business. In 2005, when the Back Doors Warehouse moved out of Adams Morgan, we decided it was time to officially split the business, since we had been running separate operations for many years.

"The past couple of years have been grueling for all small businesses. This year the weather in Washington made business even more difficult. Ron Allan owns The Brass Knob Back Doors Warehouse. He is the hardest worker the world has ever known and his knowledge and understanding of all aspects of buildings including their mechanical systems is amazing. He is someone who cherishes all old things and has dedicated his life to saving and recycling old house parts, no matter the size, the weight, or the amount of labor involved. Washington will lose a valuable resource when the Brass Knob Back Doors closes. The merchandise, much of which is hard to handle and to store, and most importantly the knowledge which aids customers in making the best choice and finding the correct piece for their application is not available anywhere else in the city.

"We are all extremely sad that The Back Doors Warehouse has not been able to make it through these tough times and hope that everyone who reads this message will go shop at 57 N Street NW to help them clear out this space full of thousands of amazing items . Their sale flyer is attached to provide further details.

"The Brass Knob Architectural Antiques will remain open at 2311 18th Street NW and online."

Editor: Sorry, to see Ron go. I went to the USA for the Renovation & Restoration trade show years ago in Washington during which myself and a small group of dealers visited the Brass Knob, and we did a follow-up story in SalvoNEWS.
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AD'S PEEK INTO OLD FASHIONISTA INTERIORS
The November edition of Architectural Digest has a feature on the homes of international fashion icons of which Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani and Yves Saint Laurent seem the most famous.

YSL, who died aged 72 in 2008, had a flock sheep by Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne in his classic Paris living room, plus busts, a torso and works by Le Corbusier, Picasso and Modigliani.

Ralph, aged 71, and wife Ricky Lauren's Colorado farm is folksy wood with Concho, Indian and American wild west antiques, while his Jamaican villa has more of a cream and white hotel look.

Giorgio Armani, aged 76, no doubt influenced by his architectural draughstman boyfriend, showed more restraint in his New York penthouse. "When I design clothes, I don't want to load a woman down with ribbons and brooches. It's the same in the home. I don't want to fill the space. Light is responsible for 50 percent of the effect," he is reported as saying. "The architecture comes after."

Other designers homes on show in the feature are Donna Karan, Mary McFadden, Elie Saab and Jackie Rogers.
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