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 BIG BLAND BERLIN BELFRY BATS
We were in Berlin a few days ago, my mothers home town. Always enjoyed going there although it is impossible to get food which hasn't been made with the contents of an entire salt cellar. One of the things that makes the place interesting is that sense of bad history, destruction and schism. This is reflected somewhat in the architecture which is is either Euro Bland Nothingness or Great Big Dark Edifices which look as though they were designed primarily to frighten children. The Reichstag, TV Tower, Cathedral and pretty much any museum are the most notable examples, but the style can be found city wide.
This sinister looking church* is in the unremarkable area of GuntzelStrasse. I would have loved to have had a camera good enough to show the bats circling the tower at dusk.
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*Apostel-Paulus-Kirche in Berlin-Schöneberg, was built in 1892-1894 by architect Franz Heinrich Schwechten (1841-1924), notable for the memorial church of Wilhelm I, German Emperor, known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, one of the thousand memorials to Wilhelm that were constructed between 1867-1918.
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NEW RECLAIMER'S DAN HILL UPCYCLING AT THE IDEAL HOME SHOW
Dan Hill, presenter of UKTV Home channel's 'New Reclaimers' series will be giving a talk and demonstration on secondhand furniture upcycling at the Ideal Home Show at 12pm on 16 November.
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 BRAD GUY'S ACADEMIC TAKE ON U.S. ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE
How did he end up being one of the USA's most prominent building salvage gurus? Brad Guy originally trained as a dancer and theatre designer which was a kind of introduction into the field of architecture. He worked as an architect for five years after graduating but even here he eventually got disillusioned with mainstream design practice.
"If you're designing commercial buildings and shopping centres for a living, that's all great, but it didn't seem to be making the world a better place, so I went to the University of Florida to study green building. This was in the early 1980s and there were no established programmes at that time, so I spent a lot of time in the library and learned that green building was much more than passive solar design. I met a guy whose goal was to open a reuse store. His name was Kevin Ratkus and we worked to put together the first deconstruction research projects at the university taking apart several homes, and then tracking and analyzing the results."
Brad is now an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC teaching sustainable design to architecture students of which reuse forms a part. "Deconstruction: implications on design" is one of his classes focusing on deconstruction, design to reuse materials, and design for adaptability and disassembly. His students have a live project to deconstruct a rural church and design a new building on the same site using the recovered materials which will take place next summer.
He teaches his students about design for deconstruction (DfD) - using mechanical fixings instead of glues and composites, demountable elements and so on. But digging deeper, he sees it more important that buildings should be made adaptable than deconstructible. In fact, he is currently writing a new book on design for adaptability. The recently issued LEED for Healthcare now has a credit for Design for Flexibility.
"I certainly will be looking at issues such as bolts instead of glues, but I think where I am going is that it is a misnomer to talk about 'DfD', but we should use the concept to design adaptable buildings which can last a long time. It is true that you can deconstruct composites and certainly plastics, thermally and in other ways, but that is very energy intensive. I am not sure that technology will solve our problems with an assumption that we can continue to produce 'wasted' materials. We need to keep materials in circulation in society - as buildings in situ, and as a last resort, the building parts.
"We already have an unbelievably skewed social and economic system where we subsidise resource extraction, pollution and waste but we don't really subsidise human beings. We pay for education but we don't actually support the development of people. So we need social and fiscal structures using taxes, as an example, which incentivise reuse so that people who do it professionally are paid a living wage. So I hope we will develop better social technology. Maybe it will all get worse but we have to believe it will get better or we must ask the question why are we all even doing this? We are all in the same boat."
Interestingly in the UK DfD has been relatively well-funded while in the USA research grants for DfD are not so readily available even though there is a specialist interest in the field mainly from post-graduate students in Brad's experience.
There is some confusion on terms between USA and UK. In England 'architectural salvage' is a general term which can mean old building material, fixtures and fittings. In USA 'reclaimed building material' means any product such as a fireplace and is not exclusive to things like bricks, walling stone, roof tiles and floorboards. 'Architectural salvage' mainly means fixtures and fittings but not 'reclaimed building material' which is the term used in the UK. 'Remanufactured' or 'reclaimed' is the term used for beams 'resawn' for flooring, which is also used in the UK although Salvo prefers the use of the term 'recraft' which suggests an element of low tech machine and hardworking rather than an industrial process.
Brad Guy thinks that reuse of surplus new material is as valid as reuse of old material. "Where do you draw the line?" he said. "Materials that are intended for use yet do not make it into a building will by default probably be disposed of, so their 'reuse' is also valid along with materials recovered from buildings."
He is on the US Green Building Council LEED Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group which is responsible for points related to materials use and C&D waste management and has introduced an option of one point for reducing the amount of waste generated to begin with in new construction. (LEED is the USA points system for accrediting new buildings for sustainability.)
If approved for LEED 2012, a commercial new building construction - excluding site clearance, topsoil, vegetation or anything beyond the building's footprint - will qualify for one point if no more than 2.5 lbs/sqft is generated by the project. Before this, a LEED building project could create an unlimited amount of waste for which a measurement was then made for the percent which was diverted from landfill. The average new building in the USA currently creates about 4 lbs/sqft of waste.
Brad looked at other construction waste systems around the world, including BRE's SmartWaste in the UK, which he has communicated to the USGBC and others as models for tracking construction waste.
The social housebuilder and entrepreneur, Habitat for Humanity International*, which has 700 or more ReStores across USA and Canada, largely relies on the disposal of surplus and used materials which provide an easy and convenient route for LEED building projects to achieve better waste management scores.
"This may not be perfect," said Brad, "but it does make the best of a bad situation. Otherwise this stuff would be sent to landfill. Materials are cheap, labour is expensive. Projects don't care if they buy twenty per cent more than they need because it is more convenient to have the stuff on site rather than running out and having to go to the local store to buy more. Time is worth more than the cost of the materials."
In 2006 Guy co-wrote the book 'Unbuilding' with another USA deconstruction and reuse luminary, Bob Falk. This looks at every aspect of deconstruction from a technical viewpoint, giving the DIY unbuilder everything they need to know about dismantling a simple old timber frame house. Guy is writing another book with the working title 'Design for Adaptation and Deconstruction' which will include information on the environmental implications of reuse for which he is currently seeking case studies, particularly those which are inspirational rather than mainstream.
In Unbuilding, Guy mentioned time spent living in Morocco. Did this have an influence? "Oh yeah, big time," he said. "You can't live across the street from a shack made of corrugated iron and cardboard without it affecting you. It taught me three fundamental things: one, the US is not the best country in the world, a lot of people hate the US and it's really not that big a deal to be American. Secondly there are unbelievable defences - cultural religious and economic - which every American child could do with learning; there are places in the world that are so different. Thirdly, it showed me the resource difference - you see true poverty."
Interestingly, Guy's class at the Catholic University in Washington has an international outlook, with Saudi Arabian and Algerian students.
Guy also teaches deconstruction to teams of young people who have joined the Americorps National Civilian Community Corps - a domestic version of the Peace Corps which is a government volunteer organisation that allows students to undertake community projects in return for a $5,500 grant towards student fees. Americorps NCCC helped clear up after Hurricane Katrina and also works with Habitat for Humanity around the USA.
Is deconstruction commercially viable in the USA? "On average it is not typically economical except for specific building types and specific materials - such as lumber (timber at least 6ins deep by 6ins wide). Many of projects are one-offs or pilot projects dependent on social funding and tax deductions. What level of deconstruction is systemic? If you do twenty million one-off case studies, at least there would be a lot of awareness. Five years ago around forty percent of salvage was non-profit and that figure has now increased to at least equal profit to non-profit. The recession has affected the building industry but even so sales of surplus and used material have done well in the not-for-profit sector but deconstruction is getting harder and people are shutting down deconstruction projects and laying people off. There is also less demolition because there is less new building overall in these economically difficult times. The cost of deconstruction is so high and you are back to the economics. It's feasible to salvage something which turns a profit, that applies to around ten percent of the material arising from deconstruction. But the other ninety percent of the material - that's not doing so well for reuse at the moment."
Habitat for Humanity, a religious organisation which now operates in over 100 countries, states: 'ReStore resale outlets provide an environmentally and socially responsible way to keep good, reusable materials out of the waste stream while providing funding for Habitat's community improvement work.' Guy wonders why HfH sells surplus material and then buys new materials for its own housing projects. "It sells materials that are donated to it for 50 cents on the dollar and then spends that money buying new material at full price," he said. "This doesn't make any sense when HfH could use the donated materials in its own housebuilding projects - which would make the materials in effect free - and show one true promise of materials reuse in the production of new and renovation housing."
Brad Guy was interviewed by TK in Central Park, New York in September 2011
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 SPLENDID POT POURRI AT GAZE'S ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE AUCTION ON SATURDAY
Apart from the 933 lots of York flagstones, oak doors, compo statuary, lighting, brassware, and garden perquisites, the forthcoming salvage sale at Gaze's in Diss on Saturday, also has a rare pair of compo zodiac garden seats (est £150-£200), a heavy Cartwright office floor-standing safe complete with key, an Arts & Crafts Edwardian or later half-timbered wooden house porch (est £650-£975) for placement on brick plinth walls, a marble fountain supported by a pre-raphaelite-looking carved mendicant or vagabond (est £7,000-£9,000) and a wacky circular cast iron radiator topped by a floriate Doulton bowl (est £200-£300).
Telephone Carl Willows or Rob Kinsella 01379 650306.
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 OBITUARY: SARAH WOLFE
We regret to announce the death of Sarah Wolfe who died unexpectedly on the 17th September. She was partner to James Yarrow of Asianart Ltd, Honiton. Her work as an artist (Sarah Durston) hangs in the numerous redevelopment projects that she was involved in with PCDG Mitchells and Butlers.
Asianart Ltd have been exhibitors at Salvo Fair since 2009.
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 WEMBLEY STADIUM ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE TO BE AUCTIONED BY THE BROOKING TRUST
Charles Brooking's Architectural Museum Trust is to sell nine lots of architectural salvage from Max Ayrton's 1923 Wembley Stadium at a sporting memorabilia auction organised by Graham Budd on 8 November at Sotheby's in London.
The biggest lot at 10m by 5m is the Royal Tunnel Gates by Samuel Elliott & Sons Ltd of Reading, estimated at £5,000-10,000, while one of the round windows from the iconic Twin Towers, also by Samuel Elliott & Sons Ltd is estimated at £3,000-5,000. Also included are several pieces from the Royal Retiring Room such as doors, windows and wall panels plus a fanlight from the Long Bar and a balustrade and lights that were situated by the Royal Box.
Charles Brooking acquired the gates and other items from the original Wembley Stadium prior to its demolition. A spokesman from the Brooking Trust said: "Regrettably it is the size and weight which negates their retention in the collection. It is with sadness that they and the other pieces are being released; we have held them for the last eleven years hoping to find a way of displaying them, but without success."
Graham Budd, said: "I am delighted to be selling the gates from the most famous sporting venue in the UK, if not the world. This is not the first time that I have been asked to sell such wonderful architectural objects. I sold the Ascot Racecourse entranceway to the winner's enclosure in 2005 for £280,000. Unfortunately as these items are so large, they will not be on view at Sotheby's during the auction viewing."
Wembley stadium was opened on 28 April 1923, built as part of the British Empire Exhibition by Sir Robert McAlpine. The stadium cost £750,000, designed by architects Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton. Originally it was intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved when Arthur Elvin started buying the derelict buildings one by one, demolishing them, and selling off the scrap. The stadium had gone into liquidation, after it was pronounced "financially unviable". Elvin offered to buy the stadium for £127,000, using a £12,000 downpayment and the balance plus interest payable over ten years. The Wembley Company then bought it back from Elvin, leaving him with a healthy profit. Instead of cash he received shares, which gave him the largest stake in Wembley Stadium and he became chairman. The stadium closed in October 2000, and was demolished in 2003 for redevelopment. The top of one of the twin towers was erected as a memorial in the park on the north side of Overton Close in the Saint Raphael's Estate.
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 HERITAGE HOMES OFFERED FOR RELOCATION DUE TO MAJOR HIGHWAY SCHEME
The Ministry of Transportation is offering for relocation sale nine Durham region historic houses, complete with old barns and outbuildings dating back to the early 1800s, which need to be cleared prior to the construction of the 65km 407E highway. The sale ad reads:
Own a Piece of History - Sale of Heritage Buildings. Commercial Focus Advisory Services on behalf of the Ministry of Transportation is pleased to offer a limited number of heritage buildings for sale. No specified asking price. Relocations must be completed by June 20, 2012 by a qualified moving contractor. The buyer will be responsible for all financial aspects of the bid and relocation. Proposals must be submitted by 12:00 pm on January 20, 2012. Book your appointment today. Contact: Stephen Fagyas, MA, MCIP (President) Commercial Focus Advisory Services Inc. Tel: (416) 907-8109 Fax: (416) 972-9588
Email: stephen at commercialfocusadvisoryservices dot ca
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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BENEFIT FROM IKEA REUSE INITIATIVE
Swedish home store IKEA has run a not very successful pilot scheme for customers to give secondhand bulky goods to the Furniture Reuse Network.
IKEA's Charlie Browne told the Larac local authority recycling conference held in Kenilworth last week, that the pilot was run in Coventry and Wednesbury which allowed a customer who bought a new mattress to pay £15 to IKEA to take their old mattress back, which would then be reused or recycled. "We don't want to make any money from this," he said, "this is convenient, great value and helps someone else. It aims to be a reuse service."
Furniture Reuse Network members would then collect the old items from IKEA and give them to the poor or needy. FRN estimates that of the 10 million items that are thrown away each year, 3 million could be reused and more could be repaired.
IKEA aims for the service to be offered eventually in all its stores in the UK and Ireland.
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 COLIN FIRTH'S ECO GUILT AND LIVIA ON A GREEN RED CARPET ECO AGE WEBSITE
"If there's one bit of red carpet tyranny we'd love the Green Carpet Challenge to dispense with," writes Livia Firth on her newly launched website, Eco Age, "it's the idea that no two women must ever be seen in the same dress. In many ways this dictat just plays into the whole consumer churn and fast fashion cycle that we're trying to avoid. So we say why on earth not? When you've got a great designer, and a great piece, shouldn't that piece be outed as many times as possible?"
The website is about support for sustainable luxury fashion which reuses, cares for the environment, and lasts the distance of time instead of contributing to the throwaway age. At the Venice Film Festival, Livia wore a 50s inspired dress which she designed with Yoox and was made by upcycling specialists Reclaim-to-Wear. Look out for this Italian social justice enterprise which will be launched in December.
Other contributors raise environmental issues. Lucy Siegle in 'Handbags at dawn' considered the link between fashion and deforestation. The National Wildlife Federation encourages leather production free from this link. She concluded: watch this space. In fact the website is definitely worth watching for environmentally aware fashionistas.
Husband Colin Firth discusses eco-guilt and his love of gadgets in 'View from the naughty step.' "I am not seduced by all gadgets. I believe that I may have, for example, one of the oldest television sets in the western world. I just have no interest in acquiring a new one. But I should also come clean. In common with millions of other technology consumers I have been seduced by one particular brand - yes, the one with a fruit related logo . . . It's not wrong to want beautiful things. On one level these gadgets and access to them are a real joy of contemporary life. Unfortunately there's a very ugly by-product." [Although he does not get round to telling us what that is - Ed]
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 BUCKET LIST
Anyone who knows me has heard the story about my first deconstruction experience - my Dad and I salvaging bricks and lumber when his old high school building was being demolished. As a kid in the 60's, I didn't realize I was engaged in a practice that was both old (Dad's depression-era sensitivities) and futuristic (current environmental sensitivities). Now it's part of my professional work.
I've seen outstanding examples of recycling materials for beneficial use, salvaging materials for reuse, repurposing materials for other uses and creating value-added products. I've seen extraordinary examples of salvaged materials used as structural components, exterior and interior architectural elements, decorative items, furnishings and more creative uses than can be noted here. I've seen growth in used building materials businesses, and the infrastructure to connect supply and demand. I've seen the BMRA grow from a cluster of well intentioned individuals to being a real influence in the industry.
Unfortunately, I still see demolition and landfill disposal. I speak to people who can't imagine why anyone would even want to reuse lumber. I speak with people who are convinced deconstruction, salvage, reuse and recycling are unaffordable within project funds. I speak with people who want to salvage materials but don't know who can perform this work, or who can take the materials. I speak with people who think converting timbers to boiler fuel or landfill daily cover is actually recycling.
Near my home this summer I've seen an old lumber yard warehouse deconstructed. Lumber was used by another business, steel was recycled, and concrete was crushed for fill on the same site. I've also received a courteous but lukewarm reception at our county's housing authority when I suggested obsolete housing can be deconstructed instead of demolished. They'll allow it as an option, but won't push it.
We've come a long way, but still have a long way to go to elevate building materials reuse and recycling as standard practice. Before I expire (naturally or otherwise) there are some things I'd like to see happen in the industry - my 'bucket list', and here it is:
1. The conflict between demolition and deconstruction disappears. The routine is to reuse what can be reused, recycle what can be recycled and landfill the little bit that's left. In other words, the hydraulic excavator, Sawzall®, pry bars, and Nail Kickers® all work in harmony to remove buildings and conserve resources.
2. Promoters of 'green building' rating systems fully appreciate the impacts of waste and life cycle benefits of materials reuse, and give full credit to reuse as a major contributor to sustainability.
3. Architectural and engineering professionals, as agents to building owners, educate their clients and vigorously promote salvage and reuse where practical.
4. Deconstruction, salvage, and used material businesses develop a robust and highly visible infrastructure within the building industry. Services are available for any type of project, any time and at any location.
5. The architectural, engineering, interior design, landscape design, demolition, construction and facility management professions are thoroughly familiar with salvage and reuse practices, and employ them as a routine instead of a novelty.
6. Deconstruction, salvage and reuse businesses work cooperatively with each other for the benefit of the industry. There's plenty of untapped opportunity. The same water floats all boats.
That's it. If these things can happen, I'll exit this world a happy man.
Sorry, one more thing. I want to see another Dead (formerly Grateful Dead) concert. I can't remember the others I've seen.
My two cents.
Tom Napier
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Thomas Napier is a research architect with the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory of the US Army Corps, and the current chairman of the Building Materials Reuse Association of America. [Republished by kind permission from BMRA October 2011 newsletter
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 LE CORBUSIER MANHOLE COVER ESTIMATED AT €10,000 AT ARTCURIAL
A cast iron manhole cover with a relief of the street plan of Chandigarh is being offered at Artcurial's auction on 24th October at an estimate of €10,000-€15,000. Among the lots of monochrome photographs, original plans and working drawings, furniture and lighting by Le Corbusier and others, is a complete 17.5m long red steel pavilion 'Structure Nomade' by Jean Prouvé estimated at €1.5m - €2m.
Lot 21 Charles - Edouard JEANNERET dit LE CORBUSIER (1887 - 1965) Plaque regard de canalisation dite "Manhole Cover" - 1954 Fonte moulée au sable reproduisant en creux le plan directeur de la ville de Chandigarh dessiné en 1951 par Le Corbusier h: 10 w: 63 cm Provenance : Espaces publics - Chandigarh Bibliographie : "Le Corbusier, Oeuvre complète Volume 8 - les dernières oeuvres" Edition Artemis, Zürich. Exemplaire similaire reproduit page 117 Eric Touchaleaume et Gérald Moreau "Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret - L'aventure Indienne, Design Art Architecture" Edition Gourcuff Gradenigo/Eric Touchaleaume. Modèle référencé LC-MU-01-B page 118, 119 et 601. Estimation 10 000 - 15 000 €
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 MODERN DESIGN AT T W GAZE
The sale on Saturday of Modern Design at Gaze in Diss comprises of 640 lots of furniture including Herman Miller and Eames chairs, lighting, artworks, pottery and art glass. James Bassam is the expert in charge.
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 RYSBRACK, CARPENTER, AND PIRANESI AT SUMMERS PLACE AUCTIONS
The upcoming auction at Summers Place in Billingshurst comprising of a sealed bid and live sale on 18th and 20th October features carved stone pieces by Michael Rysbrack, lead statuary by Andrew Carpenter and an urn by the workshops of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, among an array of lots of garden ornament, architectural antiques, modern sculpture and, no doubt, fossils.
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FAITH DOHERTY ON INDONESIA'S FUTURE AND ILLEGAL LOGGING
The Environmental Investigation Agency's Head of Forests Campaign Faith Doherty was in Jakarta two weeks ago at the Forests Indonesia Conference, hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
In an interview from the Conference, she discussed the outlook for Indonesia's forests and what approaches the Government of Indonesia needs to adopt to secure their future, as well as issues such as REDD+ and the vital importance of engaging with civil society in framing and implementing timber regulations.
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 SALVO FAIR 2012 POSSIBLE CHANGE OF VENUE
For many years now, Salvo Fair has been held once a year at the end of June in the deer park at Knebworth House. The 22nd to 24th June were the potential dates arranged for Salvo 2012 at the end of this years event. Salvo have been notified that Knebworth has taken a booking for a big music concert on those dates. If the Fair is to stay at Knebworth the date will need to be changed to six weeks before or after.
Salvo has been investigating the possibility of using Stubbings House as an alternative venue. Stubbings House is a Grade II listed, part Georgian, part Victorian mansion house, famous for being the home to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands during WW2. It is located near Maidenhead, very close to the A404, between the M4 and M40 in Berkshire. The eighty acre estate includes an extensive nursery, coffee shop, executive offices and three vast fields, that are suitable for large outdoor events.
Ruby Hazael, Salvo Fair organiser, said, "The date of the Salvo Fair is a more important factor than its specific location, provided it is near London, for three reasons. Firstly, the trade is usually too busy in their yards and showrooms during every weekend in May to want to commit to the Salvo Fair. Secondly the end of June is usually fairly good weather for an outdoor event and a better bet than mid-May. And thirdly, Arthur Swallow has proposed another salvage fair in the north of England in mid-May which we would be very reluctant to clash with. So we feel it is fairer to the trade to use another venue next year where we can stick to the proposed Salvo Fair dates of 22nd - 24th June 2012."
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 NYC LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION TO AUCTION ITS ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE COLLECTION
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission started an architectural salvage program in 1980 to reuse discarded elements from privately and publicly owned buildings across the city.
The salvaged items, including wrought iron fences, grilles, brackets, doors, banisters, windows and decorative elements, as well as more utilitarian items like sinks and bathtubs, were sold to the public at reasonable rates to assist in the restoration and adaptive reuse of historic buildings.
The program, which was run from Commission's warehouse at 337 Berry St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ended in 2000 because of low sales and staffing and budget constraints.
The City has now identified the warehouse as a site for affordable housing, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission has been working to empty the building of the unsold architectural elements that remain. It reached out to other City agencies and numerous institutions, museums, and non-profits to place the artifacts prior to offering them for auction.
This week, an advertisement appeared in the City Record seeking bids for all of the items and notifying prospective buyers that they may inspect them on Wednesday, October 12th from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Friday, October 14th from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., and Monday, October 17th from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., prior to submitting closed bids. The items will be sold in 30 lots and proceeds from the sale will go to the City's general fund.
If you have questions, call Gladys McCauley, OSA Salvage Officer, at 718-417-2156 or Emily Rich at 212-669-7817.
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 ART LIVES LIFE DIES
In the Salvo directory under Yapton Metal Co the entry includes the words 'bronze casting courses for the amateur'. I had half forgotten that I had posted that. It's sort of from a half forgotten time…well almost a half forgotten time - we could say a three fifths forgotten time but I am not good at maths and cannot quite judge the time-scale and it was, after all, a somewhat poetic remark. I was good at English lit. and language and pretty good at art and biology but my maths dyslexia messed up my plans to go to university to study zoology - which is why I started working at this damn yard anyway……..!
I have worked for my father for most of my life. My father is dead but I still work for him in a manner of speaking - a mostly poetical manner of speaking. When he died, seven years ago, I put an advert under Deaths in The Times - which neither he nor I ever read (he read the Daily Express and in the past admired those bigots John Junor and Jean Rook!) " A bit pretentious, son" I could hear him say afterwards with regard to The Times ad and I cannot deny it but it came into my head at that time and it seemed right and I did it.
I actually ran the yard onwards from 1988 when he caught a cold that 'went to his chest' according to my mother after I'd asked 'where's dad? When's he coming back? Where IS he?'. He just did not come back to work again. He would then have been seventy years old. He just stayed at home, at Laurels, in Barnham with my mother. It was almost unbelievable to me. He just left me to it without a word one way or the other. He just left. He phoned when he was eventually better and I asked him how he was. He gave the stock answer that he always did: "Well, actually, not too good son. Not too good". I sighed deeply. From then on good, bad or indifferent, I was in the driving seat.,
Nineteen eighty eight was the same year I submitted a sculpture to the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and more importantly it was accepted. The bronze sculpture - cast by myself here at Yapton Metal Company using new LG4 spec. bronze ingot - was entitled 'God's Front Door' and stood fourteen inches high' It was, apparently, the smallest sculpture the Academy had ever had submitted - excluding maquettes of course. The piece depicted a battered staircase without sides ascending to a near derelict door frame within which a battered and semi-ruined four panelled front door lay inwardly half-open. On the stairs below lay two discarded slippers.
I put a 'not for sale' tag on 'God's Front Door' for display at the RA for reasons now that baffle me and continued at the yard concerned and perplexed by my new (un-announced or mutually unrecognised status) but doing my best and trying to remember and adhere to what my old man had taught me. Then things started to happen. The West Sussex Gazette led that Thursday with 'Sussex Scrap Metal Merchant at the Royal Academy' the Evening Argus followed that evening. The Bombay Herald, Auckland Times and a minor mountain of journalists contacted me the following day with regard to the featured bronze and on Friday night I made the local TV news. On the Sunday William Feaver, art critic on The Sunday Observer basically said there was nothing any good in the RA Summer Exhibition that year except for the work of Dhuvra Mistry and me!
In August about four weeks into the Summer Exhibition I received a phone call one Saturday morning at the yard.
"Hallow? I have a call frahm Noo York for a Mister Peeder Jownes", the operator announced in a nasally voice identical to those on American TV shows. I was busy and slightly impatient but intrigued - we do not ever get calls from the US.
My mother used to receive a call every year on her birthday from Judge Marvin Goldman who had met my parents in the days when my dad Cliff, then a young man, published his jazz magazine 'Hot Discography' and Marvin - a young attorney, had been a subscriber, fellow jazz enthusiast and subsequent lifelong friend. Inevitably on my mother's birthday while celebrating with her we would await the phone call which always arrived between 10.00 and 11.00 pm. She would chat to Marvin and then Cliff would talk too,
" Hallo Marv. How are you, old chap?" He always said that. On my mother's seventy-third birthday the call did not come and it never came again.
I had Mr Salt in from Lancing just arrive at the yard with his usual two hundredweight of brass of which nearly always three quarters was bronze which was worth a good bit more but Mr Salt was either unaware or uncaring of this fact but dreamy-literature-natural history-art-based-scrap metal donko though I was, I did know what was what when it came to metal and if Mr Salt said he had scrap brass to sell I was not going to educate him. ( Mr S worked for the Water Board and much of their old fittings were of either gun metal or phosphor bronze.)
I took the call.
"Halloww? Iz zat Meester Peeter Chones?" The elderly male voice on the other end was thickly Germanic.
"Er! yes, it is. Can I help you?" I half anxiously watched Mr Salt who seemed quite happy rubbing the ears of Marjory the Alsatian guard dog his brass/bronze on the scales waiting to be weighed.
"My vife ant I vere at ze Woyal Akademy and saw your werk zere - Gott's Front Door and my vife liked it vary much…"
I gasped slightly!
"It zayz zat it iz not vor zale but I vundered if you might gonsider selling it to me?"
Good God! I thought. Things are a bit tight. I wondered if it might be worth five hundred pounds?
"I have bin asked by my vife to persuade you to zell it to me". Crikey! Seven hundred and fifty pounds? "Your verk is qvite bewdiful". Lordy! It has got to be a thousand pounds hearing that!
"Ah! Well, um, yes!" I stuttered into the mouthpiece of the phone, "of course I, er, could sell it!" I wondered if he might go to fifteen hundred? It might be worth that? Mr Salt glanced at me fixed to the phone.
"Ze qvestchun of gorse iz how much vood you like for ze verk?" Now half sweating with excitement I tried to take deep breaths. Maybe he'd go to two thousand?
"Well, um..I hadn't really considered a value for er, the uh piece having it up at not for sale, as it were" I stammered, but trying to sound nonchalant about the whole thing at the same time, hence the use of the word 'piece' - it sounded professional! I was groping for a figure that he would feel was 'appropriate' for my work of art but I didn't want to scare him off either. It obviously was not worth say £20,000 but equally so £2,000 might be too cheap for "God's Front Door' that my mysterious caller so obviously rated. Up until now the story of my little bronze had been published in papers all over the place including unlikely oneslike Chat magazine. It did not make the national news but locally BBC and ITV had run coverage on it filming people's reactions to the sculpture at the RA and interviewing me at the yard. It was universally liked and somewhat acclaimed.
"May I ask your name? And please call me Peter" I said then held my hand over the mouthpiece and called to Mr Salt telling him I would not be much longer. He smiled affably and said he was not in a rush.
"My apjekt apologeez Beeter, I am qvite vorgetting my mannerz in my exzitement at ze pozzible purchase of your vunderful skulpture (God! It's got to be £3,000!) my name is Zeller, Steven Zeller" I wondered if that was Seller but decided to opt for the christian name as that was not open to interpretation.
"Stephen," I tried the name out immediately, "what do you think about £7,000?" It's a mystical number and I sort of blurted it out.
"Mmm! Well, I muzz zay Beeter, I zink that'z juss a leedle bid doo much, luvly zo yor peutivful verk undowtiddly unt vizzout qvestchin iz! Itz juss a leedle bid doo mush!". A 'little too much'! My goodness! Only a little!
Mr Salt was watching me now. Closely, with an off-centre smile on his off-centre face…
"Ok, then Steven", I whammed in rashly and I suppose, boldly! " Let's say £5,500 and you have a deal?"
There was not the hint of a pause at the other end. I sent the words by voice, Steven received the words by hearing and instantaneously he registered:
"I ackree Beeter, I yam very happy wiz zizz figger! Crikey! Five and a half thousand pounds! What a hoot!
"My vife vill bee derlighted, Beeter! Your skulpture vill sit betveen a Peekasso I have unt a Giocometti. It vill be in good company!" he chuckled, "You ar a very talented ardist Beeter I vood like very mush to meed yoo." He hesitated then said, " Maybe you vood gare to bring ze sculpture over do New Yorg - at my eggspenz of gorse - unt at yor gonvenienze? Kom unt be my gezt? Zink aboud id. I vill bee in duch."
Two years later I got into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition again with a sculpture ten times the size of 'God's Front Door' entitled 'Running Repairs at Babylon'. I put a price of £4,000 on it and it did not sell. I have it still today. Despite numerous submissions I have not been accepted by the RA since.
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 'FOUR ROOMS' SEEKS ICONIC BEAUTIFUL OR GROTESQUE FOR NEXT SERIES
Talkback Thames, the production company behind Channel Four's adult antiques game show, 'Four Rooms', is looking for suitable items for inclusion in the next series featuring Andrew Lamberty, Jeff Salmon, Emma Hawkins and Gordon Watson.
The series features four of Britain's top dealers in art, antiques and collectibles who wait in four separate rooms, each bidding to spend their own money if the right item comes through their door. From memorabilia to a mummified mermaid, art to antiques, members of the public have come to sell their prized possessions hoping to walk away with a life-changing amount of money. But to do so, they have to work out when to sell and when to see the next dealer, because once they leave the room the offer is off the table for good.
In a gripping game of risk, ambition, and sometimes plain delusion, the sellers give everything they have got to persuade the dealers that their treasure is the real deal, while the dealers have to figure out what the real value of the item is. This test of nerves dashes some hopes, but for others, leads to a bigger win than they could have ever of dreamt of.
Talkback writes: 'Four Rooms provides an insight into the compelling world of how deals are struck, as well as fascinating information and history about a dazzling and surprising array of objects.'
Tel 020 7861 8499 for more info.
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 SUCCèS DE L'ART FORAIN à PARIS
La dispersion de la collection d'art forain de Fabienne et François Marchal, de renommée internationale, a atteint au total 3,68 millions d'euros (avec frais), a annoncé la maison de ventes Cornette de Saint Cyr. Marquée par de nombreux records mondiaux pour l'art forain (sculptures animalières de manège, éléments de décors, jeux de loteries...), cette vente a attiré plusieurs milliers de curieux, de collectionneurs et des représentants de musées et d'institutions.
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Fairground art success in Paris
The dispersion sale of the internationally renowned collection of fairground art of Fabienne and François Marchal, reached a total of 3.68 million euros, the auction house Cornette de Saint Cyr announced last week. Marked by numerous world records for fairground art, carousel animal sculptures, and antique arcade games, the sale attracted thousands of collectors and representatives of museums and institutions.
Among the top lots was a 1920 carousel by the Seignelay workshop with earlier carved wood horses by Alfred Chanvin and Karl Muller which made €33,600 against an estimate of €30k-€40k.
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 RETROUVIUS IN CUPOLA COUP FOR SALVAGE LOVERS TIM BURTON AND HELENA BONHAM CARTER
A planning application for a reclaimed brick link building surmounted by a nineteenth century 17ft high salvaged Tudorbethan lead-clad timber cupola has been approved by Camden Council on behalf of Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter to join their two Belsize Park homes together.
Mark Wilding of Building Design magazine wrote that architectural salvage and design business Retrouvius had secured planning permission for extensive works to the adjacent houses, with a link at first floor level by a walkway supported by cast iron pillars, and featuring a 19th century timber and lead cupola, and the demolition of 1960s elements of the houses, including a glass-encased staircase and a conservatory. A two-storey extension is planned to replace the demolished section with a structure using salvaged red stock brick, timber windows and doors and timber cladding. Camden councillors voted to approve the proposals in line with planning officers' recommendations.
Before the go ahead had been given, Dan Carrier, of Camden New Journal, wrote that Tim Burton, best known for the quirky look and feel of his films, and their trademark set designs wanted to create a magical, mystery wonderland to call his own. The director who lived in Belsize Park in a converted mews studio with his actor partner, Helena Bonham Carter, had asked Camden Council for permission to demolish much of the home and replace it with a new extension. And to do so, he planned to use reclaimed bricks and historic, salvaged features - including a rooftop cupola complete with weathervane, dating from the turn of the 19th century. The council's report stated: 'The cupola will be a small-scale, somewhat quirky element.' Designs seen by the New Journal showed Burton wanted to take away a section of the house built in the 1960s - which his architects said was "dilapidated" - and replace it with a building of a similar size, using reclaimed red bricks, so popular in the Gothic revival period of the 1800s, and old timber and iron work. The application was made in the director's name, but his partner lived next door to him and the couple have knocked a door in their adjoining walls so the two homes were essentially one. The couple's co-joined houses date from the mid-19th century and were originally built to provide low-cost housing and studios to artists and craftsmen in the Belsize area. But the house the director bought next door to his English girlfriend had been radically changed in the 1960s: the design included a glass-encased staircase on the outside of the home. This will be lost now that the plans have been given the go ahead. In a report to the planning committee, council officers said the plans were for 'substantial demolition' but added that most of the original studio's fabric would be saved. Architectural salvage firm Retrouvious have been asked to oversee the work. The company declined to speak to the New Journal, but their website stated that they have done work that is both 'architectural and decorative... covering dates of building from the 15th century to now. We always try to incorporate some quantity of salvaged material, which is not always easy to spot as it is usually treated with a contemporary language.' Retrouvious add that they gather house trinkets and features from such as cupboards from the entomology department at the Natural History Museum, and fossil limestone after Heathrow airport's Terminal Two was demolished.
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 MODERN SLAVERY
How many slaves work for you? If your answer is none think again. The real answer could be nearer thirty. Modern slavery is perhaps not so obvious as it was in the past. Forced labour continues today and there are at least twenty seven million bonded labourers worldwide. Illegal migrants also work as slaves in coal mines, brick kilns, and factories in the poorest regions of the world. No matter what the brand it depends on the supply chain.
As you read this on your computer, are you also wearing a T shirt and drinking coffee? We need to ask who is mining the tungsten and gold, picking the cotton or harvesting the coffee beans. There have even been reports of slaves being beaten and tortured such as those rescued from a brick kiln in China.
Take action now and write to your favourite brands to demand third-party audits of their supply chain. Reuse also reduces your slavery footprint. If you are doing a home improvement project think again and buy bricks from your local salvage dealer.
Want to know what your slavery footprint is? Take the Ecouterre survey. There are also some predrafted letters on the website. The Ecouterre website, devoted to the future of sustainable fashion design, was set up by Jill Fehrenbacher, the founder of the sustainable design website Inhabitat. Jill is a green designer and consultant based in New York City.
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 VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE DEALER FOR NATIONAL ANTIQUES WEEK
Do you have a favourite dealer that you love to visit when it comes to buying old items for your home and garden? Is there a dealer who knows what architectural salvage, decorative or garden antiques, retro and modern vintage, you are looking for and phones you to tell you when he or she has something in which fits the bill?
Or perhaps there's a saleroom you haunt on a regular basis (such as TW Gaze, Summers Place or Wellers) - knowing that you're going to come away with a treasure after an afternoon's entertainment thanks to the auctioneer.
The organisers of National Antiques Week think these unsung heroes deserve to be recognised and want to know all about your favourite shops and salerooms and what makes them so great. Is it the customer service, the expertise, the prices or the ambience that sets a place apart?
Voters could win:
A stay at the Royal Crescent Hotel, Bath, worth £375
BADA antiques vouchers worth £200
Revival iSTREAM radio from Roberts worth £200
Pedlars framed Routemaster destination blind worth £225
LAPADA antiques vouchers worth £200
A stay at The Swan, Lavenham, Suffolk, worth over £300
A stunning Interflora flower arrangement worth £250
Miller's antiques books worth over £200
Linea by Portmeiron 'Blue Laurel' porcelain dinnerware set worth over £200
Subscription to Antiques Trade Gazette worth over £200
The first winner drawn at random will have their pick of the prizes; the second winner can choose from the remainder and so on until all the prizes have been accounted for.
The winning shops will be announced by Kirstie Allsopp at the Bath Decorative Antiques Fair on 8th March 2012.
Entrants can nominate one establishment in each category:
Best antiques shop - any general antiques shop no matter how big or small
Best antiques centre - any establishment shared by several dealers
Best specialist shop - any shop with a particular speciality eg glass; silver; samplers; textiles; early oak.
Best mid-century/vintage shop - any shop that specialises in mid-century/post-war furniture/fashion/homewares etc
Best auction house - any UK saleroom
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 ANYA HINDMARCH USES SALVAGED CABINETS FOR LONDON FASHION WEEK DISPLAY
Anya Hindmarch, the celebrated designer of handbags, leather accesories, shoes and clothing thrilled London Fashion Week when she adopted the long mothballed Strand tube station and made it her own on 19th - 20th September.
Central to the display was a brace of mahogany and bronze cabinets which Lassco salvaged from The National Maritime Museum. Anya and her team artfully filled them to the gunnels. The Deco styling of the cabinets seemed to make the them look completely at home in the old tube station.
See more photos of Anya's wonderful "Lost and Found" tube kiosk on her Facebook page.
Lassco bought 135 of the National Maritime Museum cabinets (only about 60 left now) and we have sold them to buyers in USA, Belgium, Japan, Scotland and Hackney. They have been put to all kinds of uses. Each was made to house a specific model boat from the national collection at the Museum's inception in 1937. You may have seen a previous Lassco eNewsletter where they were used to display food sculptures at this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition launch party.
It is not the first time that The Strand tube station (more commonly known as The Aldwych until it was closed in 1994) has found stuff from museums being carted in. The platform and tunnels were used for the storage and protection of numerous artifacts from various public galleries during both World Wars.
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MASCO WALCOT - WHAT A WAY TO GO!
Masco Walcot Architectural salvage and Statuary sale
Minchinhampton,Saturday , 24th September 2011.
Steve Tomlin and Debbie Kedge's Masco site has always been the finest example of a quintessentialy English salvage yard blending ample supplies of base reclaimed building materials with some of the most spectacular architectural pieces to be seen anywhere. It has been a pleasure to visit with a guaranteed warm,energetic welcome combined with boundless enthusiasm for the industry. The closure of the yard will be a blow to all.
As was to be expected, the clearance auction was quite an event. Widely advertised and publicised, the whole world and his dog turned up. Private buyers, developers and the trade were all heavily represented. Dealers from Wales, Northern Ireland, Cumbria, East Anglia ,the Midlands and locally were to be seen with bulging pockets, ready to spend. Recession? What recession?
Two auctions ran consecutively.Building materials in the main showroom and architectural pieces in a marquee. The sense of occasion was intensified with a champagne reception and rousing words of introduction spoken from the heart by Steve himself. The moment Glen Snelgar, ace auctioneer from Wellers, sold the first lot the race was on.Stone troughs were immediately selling for well above top estimate, a 32" dia. granite round trough fetching £600 against a top estimate of £120 . This was repeated throughout the sale much to the dismay of the trade, who hoping to pick up some bargains, looked on in dismay, slightly shell shocked.
Extraordinary prices were reached in the battle for internal Cotswold stone flags which fetched £280 per sq yard , plus vat and buyers premium that equates to £440 per sq metre. Forest of Dean flagstones weren't far behind. The Lloyds of London marble cladding was fetching up to £1,000 pallet against top estimate of £120. and there were 50 pallets of the stuff! Steve could be seen smiling. In the other sale room pallets of Ashlar limestone were fetching £220 (est £120).
Of the "big ticket" items the Dorchester Hotel staircase sold for £12,500 (top est £8000) after fierce bidding in the room. The Ollerton Foundry gazebo went for £5,500 (est. £1500), the Charterhouse Entrance fetched a mid estimate £12,500 . One of the few failures was the Portland Stone Rotunda which was bought in at £25,000. Low to mid estimate prices were to be seen on a lot of the doors and fireplaces. Other attention grabbers: a cast iron statue of Mercury £2100 (est £600), Monet style bridge £5,000 (est £2500), carved statue of a shepherd boy £1,600 (est £500) and on and on.
Wellers worked the room, commission bids, the phones and the internet hard and built up quite a banter with the audience, for that is what it was. Pure theatre. Just after 6.00pm as darkness descended on the marquee, the sale was moved into main showroom. With a typical Masco flourish, the wine was broken out to keep the still substantial crowd happy. At this point fair mention should be made of the catering facilities. The bacon butty from the catering wagon is accepted auction fair. Not at Masco.Oh no. Venison and Wild Boar hot dogs! Pheasant and partridge burgers! Now that is style. As were the loos. Veneered panelling, piped music and a choice of hand lotions. Oh yes.
The auction finished at 8.30 pm., with many still in the room all in good humour for it had been an exciting and entertaining day with a total not far short of £1m. The trade went away still with slightly diminished bulging pockets but cheered by the fact that there is still some life in the market place. Let's hope the enthusiasm is contagious .
Speaking after the sale, Tomlin commented " I was overwhelmed by the way it went and delighted and surprised to see so many familiar faces turning out. Where were they when we needed them the over the last two barren years?" A point on which much of the trade would concur. "I intend to devote myself to campaigning for better recognition of the reclamation trade both from local and national bodies and to lecturing on environmental sustainability with the aim of re-using more reclaimed building materials and sending less to the crusher and land fill." Debbie hopes to continue in architectural salvage.
So, a mammoth task completed and an era ended in a blaze of glory. What a way to go!
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 MATERIALS LIBRARY OPENS NEW GALLERY
SCIN, pronounced 'skin', sources, advises, sells and creates materials for surfaces on the inside and outside of buildings. Set up by two architects, Annabelle Filer and Graham Cox, SCIN has a showroom in Bermondsey Street and a new gallery in Old Street.
The gallery opened recently with a five day exhibition showcasing innovative materials in art and design, including a collage of the Queens head made from 8,100 squares of folded coloured felt. Also on show are cement floors and 3D art acoustic tiles.
One of the materials created by SCIN is burnished reclaimed wood. Pine taken from old buildings is given a new finish by being 'raked and sculpted'. The boards come in 10ins to 14ins widths, and random lengths between 2ft and 14ft.
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