MAPLES & CO OF LONDON (1870-1950)

7397

153.00 cm wide 178.00 cm high 51.00 cm deep

60.24 inches wide 70.08 inches high 20.08 inches deep

Maple & Co

Founded in 1841 by John Maple, manufacturing and retailing from the hub of the furniture centre in London’s Tottenham Court Road, and through the founder & his son’s drive and excellence of the products of the company, expanded greatly, to have further workshops and points of sale in both Paris and Buenos Aires, and later, a shop in Smyrna. Clientele included Queen Victoria, King Edward V11th, members of the Royal Household, the King of Siam, and the Nicholas, Tsar of Russia. Later, Maples would furnish the Royal yachts, the QE1, QE2 and the Queen Mary, as well as hotels in Nice, London, Paris and Siam.

Constructed in finely figured Mahogany and Satinwood, with extensive use of exotic and stained woods in the foliate, arabesques and pictorial inlays; the whole of arc-en-arbalette form, rising from toupie feet, conjoined by a lower platform, and framed by inlaid half columns, housing the double doors, the lower sections being inlaid with ellipses having putti representative of the Four Seasons, and the glazed upper sections revealing plush lined shelves. The cornices of ogee form, and signed by the makers, ‘Maple & Co’ to the base of the interior.

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