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Carlton type desk of the Edwardian period, mahogany with satinwood banding and other ornamental forms, with 3 large drawers on the main body and various other smaller ones along with compartments on the upper part. The central cupboard opens to reveal a tray with 2 glass inkwells and letter files, small enamel label of Maple & Co on the interior part of the door. New gilt tooled leather installed. 4 asymetrical supports terminating in brass castors.

Maple & Co was once the largest and most prestigious 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. Maples manufactured their luxury furniture entirely in-house, at a huge modern complex. 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. 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.