Maple and Co Bow Fronted Display Cabinet

A fine quality bow fronted inlaid display cabinet by the renowned makers Maple and Co of London. Of excellent construction in solid mahogany with attractive flame mahogany veneers. This cabinet offers generous display capacity and has elegant proportions and style. It is decorated throughout with inlaid stringing and chequer banding and also attractive oval panels to the cupboard doors. There are a pair of glazed cabinet doors which open to access a display space with 3 adjustable shelves. The pair of cupboard doors to the base open to reveal a storage space. All doors are lockable, with the key supplied. We have had this lovely cabinet sympathetically refinished in our workshops. It is now offered for sale in excellent condition with great colour and finish, ready to go straight into the home.

Dimensions:

Width 126cms

Depth 46cms

Height 198cms

Maple & Co was established by John Maple, a shopkeeper from Horley, Surrey, who later opened a furniture shop in Tottenham Court Road. However it was his son, John Blundell Maple , who made Maples & 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 . With his own empire established, John Blundell Maple achieved further fame in politics and horseracing – some lines, such as the Atherstoke antique cabinet, having racing connections in the titles.

Never compromising on quality, Maples produced a huge catalogue of fine furniture, covering every avenue of interior design. A Maples & Co sale today would cover everything from Chippendale Revival antique dining chairs , to Aesthetic style carved oak dressers, to Art Nouveau tulip carved antique dining tables – all from the same catalogue.

The exclusivity and high quality of craftsmanship of Maples’ antique cabinets, dining suites and bedroom furniture made them highly popular with Britain’s social elite. Today, they appeal to anyone who appreciates fine craftsmanship.