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SalvoNEWS
Super Squat
A GROUP of leading designers are currently 'squatting' at Lassco's Brunswick House as part of London Design Festival running from 19th - 27th September. The five designers are exhibiting collections and installations in the house all week.
Lassco
Canterbury Cathedral held up by duct tape
ACCORDING to the Sunday Telegraph, which is running a Save Our Churches campaign, there are fears that the 24m-tall Great South Window of Canterbury Cathedral could collapse unless repaired immediately.
Trustees of the cathedral warned in 2006 that there would be "disastrous consequences" unless urgent action was taken to renovate the building, which is suffering from serious damage caused by corrosion and pollution.
Apparently one fifth of the cathedral’s pillars are being held up by duct tape. However, a global effort to raise £50 million by 2011 has so far managed to raise only £9.4 million.
Telegraph
Design Museum to move to the old Commmonwealth Insitute
OMA’s long-awaited plans for the former Commonwealth Institute have been given the go-ahead by Kensington and Chelsea council. Councillors approved the scheme, which is to include moving the Design Museum into the 1960s grade II listed building.
Design Museum is moving
bd The Architects Website
Piet Hein Eek
PIET Hein Eek specialises in making furniture from waste material from the industry and nature. He also undertakes commissions which can be as varied as his ideas and materials. A recent commission is the 'Tree-Trunk garden house' made from hundreds of found logs.
Piet Hein Eek said, "The scrapwood cupboard from 1990 was my reaction against the prevalent craving for flawlessness. I wanted to show that products that aren't perfect still can appeal to our sense of aestetic and functionality. I also wanted to design a product that could be made with limited means from material that was abundant."
More about Hein Eek's innovative design
Piet Hein Eek's
Planning go-ahead for 43-storey block
PLANNING permission has been granted to build a 43-storey residential block on London’s South Bank. The Doon Street Tower will stand at 168 meters, taller than anything else currently on the South Bank.
The new build was contested by English Heritage and Westminster City Council on the grounds that it would undermine the 'rich architectural heritage of Westminster,' which has 11,000 listed buildings.
Councillor Robert Davis, Westminster City Council's cabinet member for the built environment, railed against the ruling, saying that the tower would be “a blot on the landscape for generations to come, nothing short of architectural vandalism.”
The Independent
Sing to save churches
IN AN attempt to save threatened churches an initiative has started whereby choirs will perform in 40 of the most significant disused churches in England over the first weekend of October.
The “Birthday Song”, which takes place over the weekend of 3-4 October, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Churches Conservation Trust and offer people the chance to find out how their local churches can be saved through community uses.
All forty events will have one song in common, voted on by the public. Choirs will invite audiences to join with them in singing the winning song.
The Churches Conservation Trust
Cumbrian Gathering in November
CLIVE Wilson of WRS Ltd is kindly organising a northern dealers gathering to take place in Cartmel, Cumbria on the evening of Friday 27th November. This will include a tour of local hostelries, a meal and a visit to WRS barn where it is said art meets salvage.
The cost for the meal and accommodation is £68, or £86 for two sharing a double room, in the Cavendish Arms, Cartmel. Transport can be arranged for rail travelers from Grange over Sands station to Cartmel.
This event happily marries the older gatherings at Shipston and Beamish, neither of which are scheduled to happen this year.
Please contact Clive at wrs@yewtreebarn.co.uk to book a place.
reuse of the week
How to make a pot rack from copper pipe
'THIS Old House' shows you how the common copper plumbing pipe shines up easily for an elegant hanging grid. The website gives step by step instructions on how to make an innovative pot rack from disused copper pipes.
Pot rack from copper pipe
This Old House
Trader Gray passed away
IT is with regret that we announce the death of Trader Gray of Shiver Me Timbers at Long Rock in Cornwall [more next time].
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Salvo News . . .
Salvo mag 281 Aug/Sep
GARDEN SPECIAL
Whats inside. . .Exploding German balls and big sales at Salvo Fair 2009, strategy for sustainable construction, earliest known signed piece by Austin & Seeley, Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, a classical allegory in an Italian renaissance garden, Chelsea Flower Show, Waddesdon Manor, Gaze auction highlights, Pugin & the Gothic revival sale. . .
 Robots descend on Salvo Fair 2009Robots join the 5,154 other visitors who came to rummage amongst the architectural salvage, garden antiques and reclaimed building materials
 Earliest known signed piece by Austin & SeeleyEntered into Lapada's object of the year competition.
 Garden and CosmosThe royal paintings of Jodhpur
 Mars out, Venus inAn Italian renaissance garden
 Chelsea Flower ShowThemes of reclaim, recycling and eco-friendly
 The wonders of WaddesdonAn architectural treasure and one of the finest Victorian gardens.
For a free copy of SalvoNEWS send a self addressed envolope to Salvo Llp, 10 Barley Mow Passage, London W4 4PH
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24 - 27 Sept 2009
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27 - 30 September 2009
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27 September 2009
Tiles and Architectural Ceramics
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29 September - 4 October 2009
The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair
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Auctions
31 October 2009
Gaze, Roydon Road, Diss
Architectural Building Materials
Starting at 9.30am at T W Gaze Diss Norfolk, Viewing Thursday prior 2pm-8pm, Friday 10am-5pm, sale morning from 8.30am. Tel (UK) 01379 650306. Fax 01379 644313.
FAIRS & AUCTIONS: Please send details as early as possible, and by Thursday of the week prior at the latest
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STOLEN: Marble chimney in the Italian style (XIXec). Anachronistic dedicated inscription on each side of the lintel. Stolen from Aix En Provence in France on 18 Jul 2009
STOLEN: 19th century white painted iron garden seat 48 inches wide. Stolen from Braintree, Essex on 26 July 2009.
STOLEN: 12 Stone Architectural Staddle Stones. Stolen over the bank holiday weekend 30/08/09-31/08/09 from D.J.Giles in Stokenchurch.
STOLEN: Pair stone acorn urns from top of steps. Stolen from Shepton Mallet on 30 August 2009.
STOLEN: fine antique lead figure of a maiden, known as Flora. Stolen from Braintree, Essex on 26 July 2009.
STOLEN: Lead statue of two naked male wrestlers after the antique. Stolen from Braintree, Essex on 26 July 2009.
STOLEN: antique garden furniture; an antique wrought iron garden seat. 2 antique chairs and 1 seat, wrought iron, painted dull green. A pair of very heavy tables with removable slate tops. all stolen from SBL Hitchin on 22 / 23 July 2009.
 
STOLEN: Two mantle piece clocks Stolen from Moira Northern Ireland on 14 Jun 2009.
STOLEN: About 120 metres of reclaimed Yorkstone flags in random rectangular format. Thicknesses from 2.5 inches up to 4 inches. Pallets left on site so stone probably hand loaded onto truck. Stolen from Buriton near Petersfield on 19 June 2009.
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