Maple House - Tottenham Court Road, London, UK

Architect	Sir Richard Seifert & Partners
Date Built	Completed in 1976
Location	Tottenham Court Road between Beaumont Place and Grafton Street
Description
Pevsner describes this building as, "an austere granite and mosaic faced complex."  The granite is from the quarries near the town of  Rivière-A-Pierre, in Quebec, Canada.  The building is the former home of Maples furniture store, built as a replacement for the companies famous store that opened on Tottenham Court Road in the mid 1800s.  The Maples furniture empire expanded over the years to 24 stores but in 1997 the company went into receivership.

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