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 THE RIGHT KIND OF CROOKS AND A LOOKER AT GAZE'S
A small section of shepherdalia at Gaze's rural and domestic bygones sale last Saturday had several lots of shepherd's crooks covering the gamut of 18th and 19th century types, the most expensive of which, an iron and wood looker's sheep and lamb neck crook, made £180. Since the 18th century crooks have been rated as neck or leg crooks depending on the loop size. Although crooks are recorded to have been around since ancient Egypt - Osiris carried a gold and copper neck crook symbolising 'rule' - they went out of fashion in medieval Europe, to be substituted by club or staff to attack wild animals, followed by a 'houlette' which was a staff with a carved spoon shape at one end, which the shepherd used to dig out a divot which was then thrown beyond a straying sheep to bring it back into the fold. Hooked iron crooks seem to have developed in the 18th century.
A looker was the name given to a shepherd working Kent's Romney marsh which during the 18th century had been amalgamated into several large estates. A looker was a self-employed marshman who might look after several hundred sheep belonging to several estates, living in a looker's hut during the lambing season and inclement weather. The last lookers died out in the 1950s, and of the several hundred Victorian looker's huts few are left.
The top lots at this bygones sale were both display cabinets. A Carr & Co three shelf biscuit cabinet with missing glazing was the top lot at £800 (est. £460-£690), bought by a trade buyer on behalf of a Japanese client. A De La Rue 'Onoto the Pen' cabinet sold for a mid-estimate £380. Onoto was the first plunger filler fountain pen, produced by De La Rue from 1905.
Coming up in 2012 at Gaze's will be more sherpherdalia, a collection of 1,200 pieces of Kenrick cast ironware which will sell at both the architectural and the bygones sales, and a magnificent collection of bagatelle and frog games.
Next sales at Gaze: Rural & Domestic Bygones Saturday 21st January 2012; Architectural Salvage Saturday 18th February 2012.
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 THREE GENERATIONS OF PARROTTS OPEN NEW ROAD AT CAWARDEN RECLAIM
The winning team . . . three generations of the Parrott family proudly cut the red tape at the official opening of the new driveway entrance to Cawarden Brick & Tile Co Ltd.
Fifty years ago the family was dairy farming with the farm barns and sheds clanking and lowing to the sounds of cattle being fed and milked. How times have changed. Today, under the leadership of Richard Parrott, the company can boast many success stories having just received the ultimate in accolades 'Brick Recycling Specialist of the Year 2011'. This prestigious business achievement award was presented by "London and Home Counties Today" and singles out Cawarden for national recognition in its specialist field. The award was presented to Cawarden for 'services and proven ability' which exceeds the needs of its clients, singling out a company which provides excellence across a range of disciplines and criteria.
Cawarden is the leading reclaim specialist, supplying a vast array of both reclaimed and period building materials, supplying architects, builders, craftspeople, interior designers and private clients.
The improvements to the entrance at Carwarden Springs Farm will assist the flow of traffic to the busy business based in Rugeley, Staffordshire, where traffic has increased fivefold in the last two years. Visitors are welcome to view the new showrooms and stock storage areas.
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 SOURCE ANTIQUES OPENS SHOP IN BATH'S GREEN PARK STATION
Father son partnership Rod and Tom Donaldson of Source Antiques moved from their shop in the Widcombe Parade, Bath, three years ago to some vacant industrial units further out of town where they could accommodate their kitchen store and workshops. A few weeks ago the opening of their new shop in the former Green Park Station back in central Bath was attended by trade luminaries including Damian Cronin, Marcus Olliff, John Robbins and David Bridgwater.
"The new shop was Tom's idea," Rod Donaldson said. "We missed not having a shop and being able to chat to people face to face. Most of our sales come from the internet, but people do like to look at real kitchens and lighting before they buy. Also there is a Saturday organic farmers market here which brings in wealthier buyers from whom we have had some good enquiries."
So how's business? Our bread and butter is the hospitality trade - pubs, restaurants and hotels - and of course kitchens, of which we are just finishing one for a client in Florida and another in London. This year we have had some very good months and some absolutely dire months."
Source Antiques supports the Salvo Code and exhibited at this year's Salvo Fair. How was it? Rod said it had cost him a total of £1,500 to attend and he had made no sales at the fair, and no aftersales despite giving away 100 leaflets. Source Antiques exhibited at Salvo Fair in 2006 when Rod said he had done much better having sold an English Rose kitchen, a load of furniture and some tripod lights.
"I think there was a feel good factor at the fair in 2006 which was lacking this year, and maybe the fair is too big now and people take it for granted," he said.
Resawn Matchboard For Sale: Source Antiques has for immediate sale a large quantity of square edge matchboard resawn from two inch roof board, 10mm by 6ins in 12ft lengths due to it contracting its workshop and warehouse space. "It's lovely stuff," said Rod.
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 GAZE RURAL AND DOMESTIC BYGONES SALE NEXT SATURDAY
Upcoming Xmas auction sales do not come much better than Gaze's November bygones sale. Amongst the 1,068 lots of farm bygones, hand tools, enamel signs, shepherdalia and a lot of other stuff beside.
The perfect gift for a rhubarb or kale grower? Gaze's has it - Lot 7012 Rhubarb forcer with lid for £100-£150. Is it a kale forcer? Does it matter?
Or for the avid flagger what better than an old but perfect all wood beadle, or is it, as Gaze says, a 'beetle' - lot 8001 at £10-£15? Does that matter either?
Or one for the those long winter evenings - lot 8418, a table top butter churn by J. J. Blow of Chesterfield c1940, as featured in Susan Ogilvy's seminal 1986 book 'Making Cheese at Home', a snip at £25-£40.
Lastly but not leastly, the ultimate xmas gift - lot 7253, a bright blue wooden sleigh complete with horse shafts and carriage lamps last used in 1947 estimated at £350-£525.
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LASSCO ON TV
National Geographic Channel (UK) is currently screening 'The Reclaimers' at the weekends. The twelve-part series was originally broadcast by the BBC six years ago and features LASSCO in various stories through many of the half-hour programmes. Much footage was shot at our former shop at St. Michael's Church, Shoreditch - prior to our big departure to The Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire.
The programmes are being shown around midday on Sundays in pairs (repeated at midnight). This weekend look out for Tony and Jesse (no longer with LASSCO) as they sell one of the monster British Library tables to Liberty's for it to be winched up through their central atrium to the top floor.
If you want to see some of the LASSCO staff looking even more youthful(!) there's a well-worn edition of Grand Designs still doing the rounds. Here the LASSCO St. Michael's shop is featured again in our bid to restore a smashed Regency marble fireplace and re-instate it in a Georgian house restoration in Islington. It has been shown many times in the past ten years - the sign-writing on that particular van has paid for itself many times over!
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METAL THEFT PREVENTION BILL AIMED AT SCRAPPIES COULD AFFECT SALVAGE
The proposed UK Metal Theft Prevention bill is a private member's bill sponsored by Graham Jones MP as a result of the increase in theft of lead from church roofs and bronze statuary, especially from war memorials, and statistics from the Energy Networks Association showing that metal thefts from utility and rail companies have increased from 100 to 700 a month in the past two years. The bill aims to ban cash purchases of scrap metal by scrapyards. The bill could become law by summer 2012.
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 SUPPORT BIGREGIONAL'S ONE PLANET LIVING BID AT RIO+20
Salvo Code supporter, BioRegional Development Group, whose 'One Planet Living' idea has gained worldwide recognition, has submitted a proposal for one planet living at Rio+20 to the UN. This will be considered, along with many others, as potential content for the negotiating text. BioRegional would like to be able to tell the UN that as many people as possible support its proposal.
The United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit taking place in June 2012, will be the most important sustainability event in 20 years. It is a rare opportunity for people around the world to have a conversation about sustainability, which could lead to renewed commitment and action for that better world we all want to see.
Here is what BioRegional says:
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Summary of our Proposal
The concepts and approaches of one planet living could be adopted or adapted as an effective way to achieve the objectives of Rio+20, which include renewing commitment to sustainability and a Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
Our specific Proposals for this are that the UN works with civil society (that's all of us!) to:
1. Vision - Present a clear, simple, ambitious and positive vision of a better world which politicians and citizens can get behind, feel pride in and are motivated to achieve. We propose and offer one planet living as that vision, that is - a world in which we live happy, healthy lives within our fair share of the world's resources, wherever we live, and leave space for wildlife and wilderness.
2. Roadmap to achieve the vision - Based on our experience of using the one planet living approach and framework, which includes co-creating action plans using the ten principles of one planet living, we propose that at Rio+20 nations commit to creating and implementing Roadmaps and Action Plans to achieve the Vision supported by a set of simple Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). We are suggesting that some nations prototype the plans ahead of Rio+20 to help others understand what is involved. The general idea of Roadmaps and SDG's has already picked up a lot of support. We propose that Plans are developed in a co-creation process with civil society and that they are needed at the appropriate levels: global, national, regional and local.
3. Support and guidance - From Intergovernmental Panels on Resources such as IPCC and IPBES offering science based advice, Solutions Bank of peer reviewed solutions measured against the SDG's, and education and training based on implementing the Vision and SDG's.
4. Remove barriers to sustainability - We have also made some sector specific proposals to address the barriers which we find are stopping us from implementing one planet living when we are working on it on the ground. These include Proposals on implementing renewable energy, human settlement, circular economies, biodiversity and natural capital, economic and monetary policies and institutional frameworks.
*Our proposal already has the support of Global Footprint Network, World Society for the Protection of Animals, Foster and Partners Architects and more.
**Pressure from civil society has just this week helped lead to the date of Rio+20 being changed so that it does not clash with the Queens Jubilee celebrations, meaning that it is easier for leaders of Commonwealth countries to attend. Public pressure works!
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Note: This year, BioRegional's founders won social entrepreneur of the year award at the World Economic Forum. BioRegional Reclaimed has worked with the salvage trade and Salvo in helping to promote the reclamation and reuse of demolition material since 2003, sponsoring and publishing Pushing Reuse by Thornton Kay and Jonathan Essex in 2009. Salvo helped source reclaimed material for BedZed in Surrey which houses BioRegional's office.
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 WAR MEMORIALS TRUST LAUNCHES ANTI-THEFT CAMPAIGN WITH SMARTWATER
In the face of increasing bronze thefts this year the War Memorials Trust, formerly Friends of War Memorials, has launched a campaign with SmartWater to mark war memorials with the aim of making them less of a target as the risk of detection and arrest increases.
The scheme, which is called 'In Memoriam 2014', is supported by the Royal British Legion and the Cadet Forces, using the forthcoming centenary of World War I to help communities preserve their war memorial heritage.
SmartWater, a crime prevention fluid, which is being made available at no charge, will not only make memorials uniquely identifiable, it also offers robust traceability should a theft occur. It is a high temperature solution that will withstand burning and melting making it harder for criminals to dispose of stolen metals.
There are thought to be approximately 100,000 war memorials in the British Isles ranging from crosses, to bridges, to buildings, to fabric and fittings within churches. In Memoriam 2014 aims to encourage local communities and youth groups to identify and get involved with war memorials.
Frances Moreton, director of War Memorials Trust, was quoted in the Sunday Express on November 6:
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Sunday November 6,2011
By James Murray
Stolen bronze plaques from war memorials bearing the names of the nation's lost heroes are being offered for sale at auctions and on the internet. The sickening trade brings a sinister tone to the growing scandal of war memorial thefts, which have caused outrage as the country prepares to mark Remembrance Day.
Now the War Memorials Trust is calling for action to stop anything from war memorials from being traded or sold. Frances Moreton, its director, said that although it has no hard evidence that items have been stolen, there is legitimate concern over the sales.
She said, "Unfortunately it is increasingly the case that war memorials are being offered for sale at, for example, auctions, on internet auction sites, at architectural salvage yards or in antique shops. Buying and selling war memorials creates a market value for such items which could lead to more theft of such pieces for commercial gain."
She said eBay had agreed to remove items from sale when they first appeared four years ago.
However she added: "We have mixed results contacting sellers. Some immediately give memorials to us and apologise for any offence caused. Others are more belligerent."
Items offered for sale on the internet include plaques from memorials to fallen heroes at Aberdeen, Wigan, Belfast and London. Labour's Graham Jones is one of several MPs campaigning for stiffer sentences for metal thieves and has tabled a 10-minute debate in the Commons for November 15.
Last night he said: "These people are stealing the UK's past and we need to take strong steps to combat them. The Theft Act needs amending so they will face stiffer sentences."
Police say a 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the notorious theft last month of a bronze statue of a First World War soldier. It is believed to be worth £10,000 and was taken from the grounds of the Royal British Legion in Tidworth, Wiltshire.
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SUNDIAL EXHIBITION IN CHISLEHURST
Michael Sim Antiques is holding an exhibition of Georgian sundial plates at his shop in Chiselhurst until December 31st. Among the makers is Watkins & Smith, Thomas Heath, Benjamin Martin and Jonathan Sisson, and he also features a Portland baluster sundial and plate made for the great grandfather of Sir Anthony Eden, Colonel William Iremonger who fought at Corunna and Vimiero in the Peninsular War.
Michael Sim has been dealing in Georgian furniture and artefacts since 1983. A former director of the Royal Society of Chemistry, he has a particular interest in the scientific aspects of restoration and has made some important finds, most notably the rediscovery of one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian furniture by Pietro Piffetti, which was subsequently sold to the Victoria & Albert Museum. He has also dealt extensively with a number of other museums and galleries, including the National Gallery of Scotland and the R.I.B.A Drawings Collection.
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 A SALVAGE CHRISTMAS LIST
Architectural salvage yards are a great place to find both useful and beautiful items for your home for Christmas. Whether you are refurbishing your home or looking for gifts, salvage yards offer many hidden gems. The lost art of craftsmanship can be found here - not bland mass-produced products made in China. The beauty of objects made to stand the test of time can be seen in the antique lighting, ornate ironwork, brass door furniture, ceramic tiles, colourful stained glass, carved wood and stoneware.
For those unique Christmas gifts you can start shopping from the comfort of your armchair by checking out the dealers on the Salvoweb home page. Click thru from the home page straight to the dealer websites and you will find some amazing ideas. My Christmas list now includes Victorian enamelled copper letters, St George brass hanging hook, Delft tiles, Art Nouveau fire screen, silver plated flower vase, French mirror, cast iron fire back, polished aluminium Ergon desk lamp and last but not least a romantic roll top cast iron bath with claw feet. Not all these items are expensive - the letters are only £2 each plus vat.
Visit the websites and be tempted out of your armchair to take advantage of the bargain offers, Christmas markets, auctions, coffee shops - some with Sunday opening hours make it easier to shop. Salvaged items are more individual and may sell before you get there, like the best Christmas gift for an over-bonused banker - a very rare late 17th century confessional from Wharton Antiques.
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CHURCHES CONSERVATION TRUST LAUNCHES WALLPAINTINGS WEBSITE
Catherine Piddington of the Churches Conservation Trust has launched a Wallpaintings Interpretation Project, which is an online resource dedicated to wallpaintings in English Parish churches.
"We had the great honour and delight of working with some of the most expert minds in their fields: Professor Paul Binksi, Dr Miriam Gill and Tobit Curteis," she writes. "This is the first website of its kind including clear, concise and accessible information on the history and development of wallpaintings, conservation techniques and challenges and the meaning behind wallpaintings. All are laced with stunning brand new photographs by Andy Marshall, some of which are zoomable so you can really see the detail."
The project can be explored at the link below. Be sure not to miss the interactive timeline or some of the wallpaintings that can be found in its estate.
Catherine Piddington would love to hear what readers think and encourages them to share this with friends and colleagues and anyone who they think may be interested.
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 SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS' DOORCASE UP!
The last time Sir William Chambers' doorcase was constructed, he would have overseen it. That was 1769 as the terrace he had designed on Berners Street in London was taking shape. His own house, for which this doorcase was carved, was in the middle of that terrace.
Here at Three Pigeons, 242 years later, Jarek and Lukasz have undertaken the rebuild and it looks incredibly handsome. It bears the remains of 200 years of paint and the bomb damage that lead to the demolition of the terrace in 1941.
If the current thinking that the keystone is Coade Stone is correct, it will prove to be a very early example. Eleanor Coade's Lambeth works was in its infancy in 1769.
For more information about the doorcase and a summary of Sir William Chambers' works as architect to George III see the links below
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 LOVELY JUBBLY - PECKHAM'S FINEST
Sustainability and the recycling of waste timber is a subject we have a keen interest in and we are always looking for new and innovative ways to put any surplus and leftover wood materials to good use.
One of the more contemporary and stylish solutions we've seen in a while is the Made In Peckham range of furniture made from reclaimed timbers by Hendzel & Hunt, a London based design studio who design and manufacture bespoke furniture and cabinets. Rough reclaimed timbers are upcycled using traditional joinery and cabinet making skills foregoing the need for any metal fixings. All the raw materials are sourced from the streets and surrounds of SE1, hence the name.
McKay Flooring stocks and supplies thousands of meters of reclaimed wood floors per year along side our range of reclaimed Whisky Barrel Flooring. If you have an interesting use for reclaimed wood flooring we'd love to hear from you. Tel: 0845 602 7694
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 BONFIRE NIGHT IN LEWES
Come the 5th November every year, me and my family march with the Cliffe Bonfire Society. This is a side effect of my wife being a fifth generation Lewesian and a pragmatic sense of You wont beat Them, so you might as well join Them.
The whole thing is often portrayed as a big anti-Catholic shindig. The No Popery banners and exploding Pope effigies don't help. Having grown up in Scotland with a certain amount of that The Future's Bright, The Future's Orange, this used to make me feel uncomfortable, but nowadays I'm OK. For a start I haven't found anyone who can definitely confirm for sure whether it's Pope Paul IV that's being burned in effigy, or Pope Paul V. (Number five was in charge when Guy Fawkes was caught and Number four was boss when the 17 Lewes Martyrs were burned.) And from what I can see, what motivates people to march isn't so much religious bigotry, more a sense of whimsical Englishness, tradition, socialising and drink.
Copying and Pasting ever so slightly, here's a quick resume of some of the grim details of the Marian Persecution… Basically, Derek Carver was burned alive in a barrel for the crime of reading a Bible in English.
On 22 July 1555, Derek Carver, was taken by his Catholic persecutors, to Lewes town centre to be burned outside of the Old Star Inn, where the Town Hall currently stands. His Bible was taken from him and thrown into a barrel on the pyre. The crowd called to him, pleading God to strengthen his resolve and his faith. He knelt down and prayed, but was then forced to climb into the barrel too.
Carver took his Bible and threw it into the surrounding crowd. His final words were: "Lord have mercy upon me, for unto thee I commend my spirit and my soul doth rejoice in thee!" His Bible was preserved and is on display in Lewes Museum today. Clear evidence of his blood splattered on the pages of Judges, Zephaniah and Ruth is a graphic reminder of his physical ordeal.
After four more burnings, the Bishop of London was still not convinced that heretics were being persuaded back to the Roman faith. So he arranged the largest bonfire of humans the town or indeed the country had seen. The ten hapless Protestants were: Richard Woodman, George Stevens, Alexander Hosman, William Mainard, Thomasina Wood, Margery Morris, James Morris, Denis Burges, Ann Ashdon and Mary Groves.
These, and the other seven victims of the Auto de Fe are commemorated by the Five bonfire societies carrying 17 barrels of burning tar and 17 flaming crosses.
Below is the 'Pope' part of the song we all sing:
A penny loaf to feed the Pope
A farthing o'cheese to choke him
A pint of beer to rinse it down
A faggot of sticks to burn him
Burn him in a tub of tar
Burn him like a blazing star
Burn his body from his head
Then we'll say old Pope is dead
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Haven't heard it on X Factor yet.
Of course after Mary Tudor was executed the boot was on the other foot and then it was Protestants killing Catholics. No-one commemorates them. This might be an idea for one of the other societies, maybe Southover, whose younger members over-compensate for having liberal, Guardian reading parents by throwing lots of bangers around.
And if you want a taste of what it's like marching in a Bonfire Society, see the You Tube link below.
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 RECRAFTING AN EDWARDIAN SHOPFITTING INTO A NEW KITCHEN
I have always been fascinated with antiques, architectural salvage and old industrial bits and pieces since I was very young. But it is only when I first came to England over twenty one years ago that the salvage bug truly got me. The English and their love of nostalgia is nowhere to be found but on this small island and highly contagious.
Before I became an interior designer and garden designer, all the houses I ever lived in were full of old bits and pieces I collected here and there - I even found a solid oak pulpit in a field once; I promptly rented a lorry and asked a farmer down the road to help me load it -since then bad backs have ensued but I am still proud of that find.
Recrafting old items is now part of my work - I guess you could call my work eclectic. As an interior architect I get to know a house intimately from its building materials to how the family want to use the space. To live in the twenty first century furniture needs to fulfil a plausible function. It cannot just be aesthetically directed - it has to be fit for purpose.
In this case study we recrafted shopfittings as a kitchen for a client. Built from mahogany these shop display cupboards dating back to the early twentieth century were discovered in an antique centre in Salisbury. Filthy, and stacked at the back of the large warehouse - I really like their simple stripped down look. At the time I did not know what I was going to do with them but bought them anyway - I was certain to find a purpose for them.
The client had moved from London to the countryside and bought an Edwardian house that had not been touched in over fifty years. Dating back to 1907, the house still had the old wiring, a flower room, three pantries, a water room (!) and a tiny kitchen space. This needed to be changed into one space. A large sociable kitchen with a spacious dining area since the client would be entertaining a lot.
The client, an industrial designer, loved anything old and engineer-like but he did not want to have a pastiche of an Edwardian interior. And neither did I, to be honest. After all, admiring the past is all about moving forward, otherwise there would be no yesterday. Throughout we retained the architectural elements of the house: the extensive cornicing, the old floors, the dados, high skirting boards, window furniture as well as door furniture dating from that period.
The client had looked at numerous kitchens - none were to his taste. So I told him about the old shop fittings I had. At first sceptical - I often find clients need to be weaved into a visual story about how their house is going to look once finished - he understood the idea behind it. He liked the fact that in one of our conversations, he had mentioned how he loved the old hardware shops and pharmacies where you could see all the bolts, tools, pills, potions and food stuffs lined up on shelves behind glass. These shop fittings were exactly that.
There would be a fair amount of work to recraft these tired, dusty and dirty cupboards into a modern kitchen but he decided that my detailed explanations were good enough and told me to run with it.
I had two very large cabinets measuring over two metres high. The cabinets' bottom parts were only 50cms deep with four doors on each cabinet and the top cabinets screwed onto it were glazed with about 15cms deep shelves. Definitely not something that would accommodate plates, pans and glasses effectively, let alone give enough countertop space.
First we separated the bottom from its top cabinets. Secondly we made the bottom cabinets much deeper, in actual fact they are much deeper than normal kitchen countertops would be and higher too. This suited the client as he is a very tall person. Having separated the top from the bottom I had enough space to put items away underneath the shelving and lots of countertop space too. I chose a granite countertop that would suit the colouring and would be hard wearing.
The kitchen was rather large and I knew we did not have enough cabinets to go round. So I commissioned the local joiner to add to it. Made from iroko, a hardwood, deep brown-red in colour to match the mahogany, we French polished it to look like mahogany; I mixed the new additions with the old.
I made a special cabinet to house the two ovens, with a roll out drawer at the bottom for baking and roasting tins and added a bus railing I had also found at an antique centre. The draw rolls our effortlessly and is a great use of a dead space. I then had the joiner copy the two-door floor cabinets to house the two sinks along with the dishwasher and designed display shelving for the client's collection of kitchenalia and stuffed fish.
Since my bottom cabinets were now much wider, I decided to get inner drawers that roll out on soft close runners. Easy to pull out a drawer with heavy pans than go and fish around dark deep shelving! This makes it a very modern and functional kitchen whilst retaining an elegant but simple look and it saves on back aches for the tall client!
To integrate the kitchen and the dining area, I designed a bar, again with the same detailing as the shop fittings to link the two. Here we had a mix of old and new once again - incorporating iconic seating from Eames and Panton and a modern oak table on reclaimed flooring with all the old architectural details and white walls..
To relieve the dark wood and make it more contemporary there were numerous colour touches to relieve the wood texture such as orange and lime green - this lightened the look but also gave it a sense of fun.
From the stuffed pike placed over the washing up area to an impeller above the fireplace to a propeller taking up a large expanse of wall, the decor was eclectic. Client happy - designer happy - this is what I call eco but not loco. And can I just add that the client and the designer were so happy and liked old stuff so much - we married!
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Francoise Murat is a degree qualified Interior Architect and Garden Designer. She runs workshops on Interior Design for period homes and contemporary houses. She also writes for Country Life and Sarah Beeny on interiors and gardens. Visit her website for more information.
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SALVOWEB DEMOLITION ALERT AIRED ON RADIO 4 NEWS SATIRE
On a Saturday morning in October on the BBC News Quiz on Radio 4, Sandy Toksvig announced an amusing SalvoWEB Demolition Alert created by demolition contractor John McSweeney about a bronze bell available in Manchester.
The demolition alert which was read out to the merriment of the live audience had been sent to the News Quiz by listener Ian Hunt. It read:
'Church bell being removed from demolition of 1930s church. In great condition. Four foot by three foot. Bronze. For info please ring.' Boom, boom.
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 MO BROS AT DREW PRITCHARD HELP SUPPORT MALE CANCER AWARENESS
The Mo Bros at Drew Pritchard Ltd have joined Movember, the international movement to raise awareness for prostate and other male cancers. So far 230,000 men have registered and over £5m has been raised.
The company Facebook page states:
'We are growing our Mos for charity. We will be banishing the razor and flexing our top lips for the fantastic charity you can read about below. Please give on line or register yourself online. I will be favouring the Gringo or Nick Cave look. We will post pictures once things get moving.
'Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men's faces in the UK and around the world, the aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.
'On November 1st, guys registered at Movember dot com with a clean-shaven face and then for the rest of the month, these selfless and generous men, known as Mo Bros, groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. Supported by the women in their lives, Mo Sistas, Movember Mo Bros raise funds by seeking out sponsorship for their Mo-growing efforts.
'Mo Bros effectively become walking, talking billboards for the 30 days of November and through their actions and words raise awareness by prompting private and public conversation around the often ignored issue of men's health.
'At the end of the month, Mo Bros and Mo Sistas celebrate their gallantry and valour by either throwing their own Movember party or attending one of the infamous Gala Parties held around the world by Movember, for Movember.'
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 BBC AND NICK KNOWLES SEEKING ORIGINAL FEATURES RESTORERS
We have started filming the third series of 'Nick Knowles' Original Features' for the UKTV channel 'Home'. The series, presented by Nick Knowles, is looking for people who are renovating and restoring their homes back to their former glory. It might be just one room or the entire house; it might be an Edwardian semi, a 1960s bungalow or a Tudor mansion.
With expert advice on design and historians on hand, the homeowner will learn how to restore his or her property in keeping with the period and learn more about its history - Who lived there before? What was the house formerly used for? What is lurking under the floorboards or behind the plaster?
We are looking to find people who are already planning or perhaps have even started restoring their home. The sort of people we are interested in are those who want to bring back the look of the house from when it was first built or at least want to keep or restore the original features. Filming starts from November 2011-March/April 2012.
Hannah Legge
Nick Knowles' Original Features S3
BBC Bristol
Tel 0117 974 6875
Email: originalfeatures at bbc dot co dot uk
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 THE OLD RADIATOR CO AND MASCO TEAM UP AS RECLAIM & REUSE LTD
The Old Radiator Company Ltd and MASCo Architectural Salvage, both major suppliers of quality reclaimed materials, have joined forces to form what will be one of England's leading retailers of architectural artifacts. Both companies will be trading under the newly formed umbrella company Reclaim & Reuse Ltd.
The Old Radiator Company Ltd, run by Andy and Fiona Triplow in Tenterden, Kent, has gone from strength to strength since its conception over eleven years ago. The company is one of Europe's leading suppliers of reclaimed and refurbished original cast iron radiators and has built up a stock and reputation which is unsurpassed.
MASCo Architectural Salvage, based in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, has been the supplier of outstanding reclaimed architectural features and traditional building materials for over the past twenty years and has grown to be a major player in the reclamation trade under the guidance of Steve Tomlin and Debbie Kedge. After much soul searching Steve feels it is now time to retire from the company enabling him to pursue his passion in sustainability consultancy and media work. We wish him the best of luck on his new path. Debbie, a great and respected asset to MASCo, has successfully run the yard for many years and will continue to do so.
Both companies will not outwardly change under the new umbrella of Reclaim & Reuse Ltd but combined will be a great strength in the industry and will compliment each other benefiting from a vast knowledge in the architectural and salvage business, bringing much advice and guidance to its customers.
MASCo will continue to source and supply a high standard of interesting reclaimed items with new stock arriving as we write. For further information or guidance on items to enhance your home or building project please contact MASCo by phone on 01285 760 886 or via our website.
The Old Radiator Company Ltd has a continually growing stock of over 4,000 original cast iron radiators. For advice or information about our radiators please call 01233 850 082, or visit our website.
Visit us at either yard and we will look forward to meeting you. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for their continued support during this exciting venture.
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 INNOVATIVE ICELAND LAUNCHES REUSED PALLET WOOD FLOORS
Care of Jetson Green, a sustainable homes and green technology company comes news of this beautiful and simple recycled wood flooring product made from pallets and shipping crates. Much of the attraction and appeal of this flooring comes from the character and variety of the woods used and what would otherwise be considered unusable for flooring because of the short lengths the pallet wood material has been turned into stylish herringbone and parquet designs and patterns.
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 A THOROUGHLY BRITISH ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE SALE AT GAZE'S
"Drizzling, perfect weather," said Carl Willows about last Saturday's architectural salvage and garden statuary sale at Gaze's in Diss. "The sale had an interesting variety of lots. The trade to private bidders ratio was about fifty fifty - and was a good mixture with new trade faces, and privates new to the area who were buying well but selectively, and will be back. There was one American phone bidder, and no continentals - so it was a thoroughly British affair." The percentage sold by lot was somewhere around 80 per cent.
Top lots, tying at £1,400, were seven staddles and 25sqyds of 18thC oak floorboards.
The forthcoming rural and domestic bygones sale on Saturday 26th November has enamel signs, shop cabinets and packaging, interesting lighting, a sleigh, fruit crate and chitting boxes, as well as the usual sort of mix.
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 NORWEGIAN STUDENTS BUILD GALLERY WITH REUSED DEMOLITION WINDOWS
Architecture students from Trondheim, Oslo and Bergen have built a gallery from reclaimed windows from a nearby demolition rebuilt into a cubic shape with double window glass walls, ceilings made from three layers of reclaimed doors and a floor made from chunky pine blocks. The thirty students all from Norges Teknisk Naturvitenskapelige Universitet undertook the task in August on behalf of the RAKE artists collective in Trondheim with help from Tyin Architectural, architect August Schmidt and artist Charlotte Rostad.
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 AESTHETIC BRONZE CHAIRS SELL FOR $16,000 AT KAMELOT
A pair of Aesthetic movement bronze chairs, c1890 by Charles Parker Co, were top lot at Kamelot's 744 lot architectural antiques, industrial and Victoriana sale on 22 October, selling for $16,000 (est $1,200-$2,400). Charles Parker Co of Meriden, Connecticut, were art brass and lighting makers, whose aesthetic period work included chinoiserie effects in silver gilt and brass or bronze similar to the circular splats on these chairs.
Lot 709, a set of four leaded vortex clear embossed pattern glass sashes, four by five feet, sold for a four times estimate $4,800. Lot 8a, a run of 45ft of Victorian walnut dado wainscot sold for a four times estimate $4,400. Lot 9, a rare nickel over brass rib cage shower c1900 sold for $3,200 (est $800)
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 PANTHEON OF GREEK GODS FAMILY TREE
A visual family tree of the panoply of Greek gods, from Chaos to the Olympians and beyond, appears on a handy webpage with a graphic made from a PowerPoint file created by Ivan Kozik, a USA programmer, using Wikipedia as the source information.
The ppt file can be downloaded, amended and resent to Ivan for uploading.
I looked into adding Daemons, and in particular Agathodaemon - spouse of Tyche, but on a Mac using Keynotes I could not find room and thought that changing it from .ppt to .key and back again was impolite as that could introduce formatting problems.
STOP PRESS: Ivan has just given permission for SalvoNEWS to turn this into a collaborative Google Doc which can appear on the web, all of which should happen soon.
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 LEIGHTON'S CABINET FOUND IN AUSTRALIA AFTER 115 YEARS
A cabinet has recently returned on loan to Leighton House museum to stand in the precise spot it occupied in 1896. The house, located near Holland Park in Kensington, was the former home and studio of the leading Victorian artist, Lord Leighton (1830-1896).
Leighton's furniture together with the rest of the contents of the house was sold at Christie's in the summer of 1896 following his death. The cabinet was sold for £86 and then vanished before re-appearing just over 100 years later when it came up at auction in Melbourne, Australia in 1997.
The new owner found part of the original Leighton sale catalogue inside one of the drawers. She wrote to the museum enclosing a photograph and it was immediately recognised as the same cabinet that appeared in photographs of Leighton's studio.
The piece is made of elements of a South German chest of the late sixteenth century and possibly elements of an English chest of drawers of a century later. These were put together and a stand made, probably in the 1860s or 1870s. This is the most important piece of Leighton's original furniture to have returned to the house.
Leighton House is well worth a visit just to see The Arab Hall which was designed to display Leighton's priceless collection of over a thousand Islamic tiles. The museum also holds regular events and exhibitions including, from 7th December, 'Folded' by artist Claire Burnett, inspired by Leighton's use of folded drapery which uses abandoned paper left to blow around outside in London's streets.
Leighton House museum is seeking help to raise £7,000 to secure the cabinet for the permanent collection.
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