Maple & Co Edwardian Walnut Desk (Ref H-184)

Good quality Edwardian walnut pedestal desk having a tooled and gilt green leather top with a cross-banded and thumb-moulded edge over an arrangement of nine canted drawers with brass swan neck handles flanked on each side by reeded pilasters and raised on a pair of square plinth bases with impressed Maple & Co marks to the frieze drawer. The desk leather has marks please see pictures overall condition is good with usual age expected marks, wear and tear. Maple & Co was one the largest and most successful British furniture retailers and cabinet makers in the Late 19th Century, 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 antique furniture in designs such as Hepplewhite and Chippendale but also were well known for their quality Arts & Crafts Furniture. Maple & Co was first established by John Maple, a shopkeeper in Surrey, who later opened a furniture shop in 1841 at 145 Tottenham Court Road. 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. During the late19th and early 20th Century they had showrooms and workshops in London, Paris and Buenos Aires. In the late 1940s, after the World War, Maple & Co started to decline in sales due to high manufacturing costs and peoples tastes changed from the traditional look to more rounded Art Deco designs. They were a little slow in the uptake of these new fashionable, fast manufactured and cheap designs so their business rapidly went into decline. They eventually joined with Waring & Gillows to become Maple, Waring & Gillow. All sizes are approximate All items are cleaned and waxed using traditional methods before they are shipped. Mainland U.K. delivery is included, and we aim to deliver smaller items in 5-7 days, larger items in 7-14 days Overseas delivery can be arranged at an additional cost Buyers are welcome to collect. If you would like any more information on this piece or would like to go ahead and purchase, please contact us Customers are protected by Distance Selling Regulations, these give customers the right to cancel purchases within seven working days after receipt of the item and receive a full refund minus transportation costs. Payment methods we take are bank transfers, card and Stripe payments. All items are cleaned and waxed using traditional methods before they are shipped.