{"product_id":"hove-mobler-norway-attributed-a-mid-century-scandinavian-rosewood-dining-table","title":"Hove Møbler: Norwegian Rosewood Dining Table on Hairpin Legs, Mid-Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eN\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eorway came late to the international Scandinavian design conversation. Through the 1950s and '60s, when Danish furniture became shorthand for modern living - Wegner's chairs, Juhl's tables, the whole curated language of teak and rosewood and quietly perfect joinery - Norway was quietly producing its own. Hove Møbler was one of the firms that did it best. Working from a workshop in western Norway, the firm built furniture that spoke the Danish vocabulary in a Norwegian accent: a touch more architectural, a touch more sober, the joinery as much the point as the silhouette. The 1960s Hove Møbler pieces - dining tables, sideboards, chairs - tend to be made in palissandro, the Brazilian rosewood that arrived in Scandinavian workshops in the post-war years and turned a generation of cabinetmakers into colourists. The wood was used for its grain. The dark stripes of the palissandro were laid across a table top like a piece of music notation, the maker reading the figure and matching the panels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis dining table is attributed to that firm. A rectangular top in book-matched palissandro, the grain running across the surface in continuous figured panels - dark stripes drawn through warm reddish browns; the corners detailed with exposed finger-joints and small contrasting wood inlays that read as architectural punctuation; the whole supported by four three-wire chrome hairpin legs, each tipped in a small white foot. The proportions are dining-table generous - long enough for six comfortably, eight at a stretch - and the silhouette is held entirely by the line of the legs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLight wear consistent with age and use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDimensions: H 0.72m × W 1.80m × D 1.00m\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEnquire about this piece via the form below. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Leopard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48989092151523,"sku":null,"price":3900.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/5230\/2051\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-19_at_10.32.25_am.png?v=1779150821","url":"https:\/\/theleopard.com.au\/products\/hove-mobler-norway-attributed-a-mid-century-scandinavian-rosewood-dining-table","provider":"The Leopard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}