BH | Studio Arendal 48-Inch Oval Dining Table

The oval table has been a favourite of Scandinavian dining rooms for generations, its rounded ends softening a room and leaving space for one more guest without the hard corners of a rectangle. In the 1950s modern designers set it on a single slim pedestal, and the pale, uncluttered rooms favoured in Norway and its neighbours, made to catch the light of short winter days, took to the look readily.

This small oval seats four. Its top is engineered wood, lacquered to a high White gloss or finished in Hazel, with a bevelled edge, angled back underneath so the rim looks fine. A single tapered metal pedestal, in White, Jet or Brass in a finish that resists chips, rises from a round foot, so chairs can be pulled in all round, even at the curved ends, and a felt pad keeps the floor unmarked.

The narrow oval shape is a gift in a small dining room or the end of a long kitchen, where a round would crowd the walkway. Set it with four white or pale wood chairs, a low bowl of white ranunculus and a striped linen napkin at each place. Between meals it works as a writing table by a window, with a lamp at one end and letters at the other, and in White the gloss keeps a small room feeling bright and open.