Salvo Fair in Period Living
Period Living's June issue includes a three page round up of Salvo Fair by Caroline Wheater, with comments from Peter Watson of Cox's Yard and Angela Rose, who sells vintage lace, quilts and blankets.
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Salvo Fair website
A browse around InSitu
Hulme Manchester, UK - Reporter Melanie Mingas of Manchester Confidential has a browse around InSitu. InSitu has been trading in the South Manchester and Trafford area for over 25 years, founded by Salvo Code dealer Laurence Green, it's an architectural salvage enterprise aiming to pair customers with the period, unique and antique items their restoration project or simple home furnishing idea requires. “It's a bit of a schizophrenic business of sorts. People come here looking for certain things from the past but then other people are looking to re-imagine the future," said Lawrence.
Manchester Confidential
Concept demolition robots
This conceptual Cynomy remote controlled demolition robot is not available yet but could be soon. Electric motors run its wheels, with the ability to move in opposite directions for easy maneuvering in tight spaces. We are looking forward to seeing the Dismantling Cyborg some day!
TreeHunter Magazine
Kamelot salvage auction results
Philadelphia, USA - Kamelot Auctions in the US held their annual architectural salvage auction last Saturday (24 April 2010) consisting of 757 lots.
Lot 145: A pair of antique Continental Neoclassical cast lead garden urns with rams heads and vitruvian scroll circa 1850, raised on socle and stepped base. The high bidder must take both, therefore the final purchase price will be two times the hammer price. Estimated at $ 2,000/$ 3,000, sold for $ 5,750 each.
Kamelot Auctions for a full list of results
£5,000 bottles saved
Andover, Hampshire UK - A set of wine bottles dating back over 200 years, have sold at auction for nearly £5,000. Veronica Smith discovered the 11 bottles on top of a wardrobe when she was clearing her relatives bungalow after his death. Mrs Smith had assumed they were worth nothing and put them on a windowsill ready for recycling. Luckily an auctioneer who had come to carry out a probate valuation realised they were valuable.
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Zero carbon house
Birmingham, UK - Architect John Christophers has completed a project to make his early Victorian two-bedroom semi-detached house more energy efficient as well as extending it to more than double its size. Retrofitting existing housing stock is becoming an increasingly important way of helping the UK meet its carbon emission targets. The development features more than 14 reclaimed materials such as treads made from reclaimed 200-year-old Canadian honeydew maple, once a floor to a silk factory.
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bd online
RIBA believe press are to blame over low pay row
Although no formal complaint has been made by the institute over BD’s coverage of the issue in recent weeks, letters from two senior staff have emerged claiming the paper’s coverage was “misrepresentative” and “skewed the facts”.
It comes as a Facebook group, Architects Against Low Pay set up three weeks ago by Keith Tomlinson, the architect who resigned his membership in protest reached 1,000 members. Mr Tomlinson argued that BD's story was 'just the straw that broke the camels back' following reports weeks ago that London practice Parritt Leng were advertising jobs below the minimum wage.
bd Online
Spring greening contest!
Inhabitat are calling all designers, crafters and creative-types who create things out of old junk. Would you like to get your products seen by millions of Inhabitat readers , including the most influential people in the design world? Inhabitat are challenging you to pick an obsolete object that’s been collecting dust and morph it into something useful using your ingenuity and imagination. The deadline is 11.59am on May 3.
Inhabitat competition
Habitat for Humanity Silent Auction
Stuart Florida, USA - Habitat for Humanity are hosting a silent auction of rare finds and architectural salvage items form the residence of singer and actress Frances Langford. Items are on display and available for bidding at the Habitat for Humanity of Martin County ReStore, 255 S.E. Bonita Street in Stuart, open to the public Tuesday to Friday 9am to 4pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm. Bidding begins April 16 and ends May 5.
All proceeds will go to Habitat for Humanity's mission to eliminate substandard housing in Martin County.
Habitat for Humanity
Reuse of the Week
Chandelier from recycled bottles
South Africa - designer Heath Nash unveiled a colorful, eclectic chandelier made almost entirely from recycled PET bottles at this year’s Milan Design Week. Dubbed Bottleformball, it is crafted from multicolored pieces of salvaged bottles attached to a hand-made wire structure. The artfully arranged bottle pieces look almost like colored ceramics when illuminated from within.
Inhabitat
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Gaze Next Auction
8 May 2010
Rural & Domestic Bygones
Copy deadline 30 April
Fairs
25 - 27 June 2010
Salvo Fair
Knebworth, Herts
Book Today! Tel. 01225422300
For regular fairs such as Newark and Lincoln please see the SalvoWEB calendar
Auctions
6 May 2010
Ronson Reclaim auction
Upper Parting, Sandhurst Lane, Glos. GL2 9NG
Approx. 500 lots of Garden Furniture, Statuary and Architectural items. Viewing on site from 1st May 2010. Tel. 01452 387890.
Ronson Reclaim
8 May 2010
Gaze Rural & Domestic Bygones
Roydon Road, Diss Norfolk
Viewing Thursday prior 2pm - 8pm, Friday 10am - 5pm, sale morning from 8.30am. Tel. 01379 650306 Fax. 01379 644313
26 May 2010
Garden Statuary and Fossil Decoration Sale
Walled Garden, Summers Place Auctions, Stane Street, Billingshurst, W Sussex RH14 9AB. Tel:01403 331331
Exhibitions & Events
6 March - 4 July 2010
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Rd, London
This will be the first major exhibition on Horace Walpole, the most important English collector of the eighteenth century, and will bring together many of his most remarkable objects.
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