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Maple & Co
was once the largest furniture retailer and manufacturer in the world. The
company was most prolific in the late Victorian and Edwardian era, specialising
in fine quality Arts & Crafts Furniture, designed and produced in their own
workshops. However, they continued producing fine quality furniture up until the
1980s.
Maple & Co was established by John Maple, a shopkeeper from Horley, Surrey, who
later opened a furniture shop in Tottenham Court Road, London. However it was his son,
John Blundell Maple , who made Maple & Co a success. With exceptional business
skills, John B. Maple took over the company while still a young man. By the
1880s they were the largest furniture store in the world, exported their fine
furniture to every continent. Maples manufactured their luxury furniture
entirely in-house, at a huge modern complex. A timber importer and furniture
exporter, they landed prestigious contracts furnishing fine houses, hotels,
embassies and palaces in Europe; among them Tsar Nicholas’s Winter Palace and
the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna. Never compromising on quality, Maples
produced a huge catalogue of fine furniture, covering every avenue of interior
design from Chippendale Revival to Aesthetic styles to Art Nouveau designs –
all from the same catalogue.
48" (122cm) Mahogany Writing Desk with original
fittings by Maple & Co c1890
Antiquedesks.net Stock
45" (107cm) Oak Pedestal Desk by Maple & Co c 1890
SOLD by Antiquedesks.net
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