Not my image, I came across this on Threads and found it really interesting. Not sure if I am allowed to credit/link to source directly (someone’s personal account).
Someone had commented there that this is run by volunteer residents preserving them for other residents.
I have some Hobnobs but not of the kind they’re after.
This is really cool!
One of my friends told me they try and keep all the old fixtures and fittings when people renovate their flats in the Barbican.
There’s a store of them, so if you want to restore your flat to the original design you can go and reclaim them.
Interesting. So they’re asking anyone who still has these fittings to “recycle” them, and yet they say “there is a big demand” for these original parts, obviously implying that people are willing to pay for them.
Seems a bit cheeky, doesn’t it? “Give me the parts for free so I can sell them to the highest bidder”…
Barbican tries to keep everything original, which is difficult and/or expensive because basically all of it was custom designed. This is a good effort 🙂
Other than being of the period they’re not exactly pieces of classic design in and of themselves so I wonder what kind of demand there is for these
I visited one of the flats in the Barbican towers. It was beautiful.
I want a Barbican flat and a UK visa 🙂
There flat Michale Fassbender has on “The Agency” most definitely features some of these.
No doubt they sell these on for a profit… Cheeky
“There is a big demand for spare parts” They just tripled the value of these by putting this poster up.
I mean, if you have original fittings in a Barbican flat, they are subject to listed status, so technically it would be a crime to change them without informing the authorities.
Mmm, hob nobs.
Side note: I highly recommend the [Barbican architecture tours](https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/architecture-tours) – so, so interesting (from someone who knows nothing about architecture) including how they shoehorned in the arts centre, all about the concrete, and the hidden imagery in the construction.
Sadly didn’t get inside any of the flats but the guide talked all about them and what it’s like to live there.
There is an ironmongers called Franchi on Holloway Road. They have a reuse program where they take old ironmongery, refinish it, and sell it as second hand.
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Not my image, I came across this on Threads and found it really interesting. Not sure if I am allowed to credit/link to source directly (someone’s personal account).
Someone had commented there that this is run by volunteer residents preserving them for other residents.
I have some Hobnobs but not of the kind they’re after.
This is really cool!
One of my friends told me they try and keep all the old fixtures and fittings when people renovate their flats in the Barbican.
There’s a store of them, so if you want to restore your flat to the original design you can go and reclaim them.
Interesting. So they’re asking anyone who still has these fittings to “recycle” them, and yet they say “there is a big demand” for these original parts, obviously implying that people are willing to pay for them.
Seems a bit cheeky, doesn’t it? “Give me the parts for free so I can sell them to the highest bidder”…
Barbican tries to keep everything original, which is difficult and/or expensive because basically all of it was custom designed. This is a good effort 🙂
[https://barbicansalvage.org](https://barbicansalvage.org)
Other than being of the period they’re not exactly pieces of classic design in and of themselves so I wonder what kind of demand there is for these
I visited one of the flats in the Barbican towers. It was beautiful.
I want a Barbican flat and a UK visa 🙂
There flat Michale Fassbender has on “The Agency” most definitely features some of these.
No doubt they sell these on for a profit… Cheeky
“There is a big demand for spare parts” They just tripled the value of these by putting this poster up.
I mean, if you have original fittings in a Barbican flat, they are subject to listed status, so technically it would be a crime to change them without informing the authorities.
Mmm, hob nobs.
Side note: I highly recommend the [Barbican architecture tours](https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/architecture-tours) – so, so interesting (from someone who knows nothing about architecture) including how they shoehorned in the arts centre, all about the concrete, and the hidden imagery in the construction.
Sadly didn’t get inside any of the flats but the guide talked all about them and what it’s like to live there.
There is an ironmongers called Franchi on Holloway Road. They have a reuse program where they take old ironmongery, refinish it, and sell it as second hand.
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