19TH CENTURY BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE BY MAPLE & CO - REF No. 4073

Product Details

H: 101 1/2 in / 257.5 cm ; W: 90 in / 228.6 cm ; D: 21 3/4 in / 55.3 cm 

A fine late 19th century four door breakfront bookcase by Maple & Co, the upper section with the swan neck break front cornice cresting above four geometric glazed doors, with shelved interior over four drawers and four fielded cupboard doors enclosing a shelved interior and outset breakfront plinth base. 

Circa 1890

English

Maple & Co:

Maple & Co Antique Furniture 1870 – 1950

Maple & Co was one the largest and most successful British furniture retailers and cabinet makers in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. They were well known for fine quality, craftsmanship and were specialists in copying old designs but bringing them up to date to the more modern trends. They produced many quality pieces of furniture in designs such as Hepplwhite and Chippendale but also were well known for their quality Arts & Crafts Furniture.

Maple & Co was first established by John Maple, a shopkeeper, Surrey, who later opened a furniture shop in Tottenham Court Road but it was his son, John Maple, who pushed Maples & Co to be such a huge success. With his skills in business, by the 1880s they were the largest furniture store in the world as they exported their fine antique furniture to many different countries and were well known throughout the interiors world.