Forte Dining Table

For nearly fifty years, we have been designing and making furniture from solid timbers. We began in a farm shed in 1972 when our father, John Pfitzner, decided he had seen enough poorly made, disposable furniture. Our furniture is now available through our Norwood store and our factory showroom in Littlehampton. We’re a true South Australian family business, owned and operated by brothers Andrew and David, and our sister Belinda manages the Norwood store. Together we develop the designs and manage every aspect of the product design and quality.

Plus, since 1999, Pfitzner has been home to Adelaide’s largest range of luxury Norwegian Stressless comfort recliners and sofas, and we’re also the destination for premium outdoor furniture from internationally respected garden furniture brands such as Vincent Shephard, Cotswold, & Roolf.

If you look underneath or inside the top drawer of any piece of Pfitzner Furniture, you’ll find our original logo. This is now our Guarantee of Quality seal. We like to think that decades, and possibly even centuries – from now, your family will still be enjoying our furniture.

And we keep our focus on practicality. If there is a drawer, we make sure it’s big enough to be useful. If it is a dining table for six, it means six people can dine comfortably without banging elbows. Or an entertainment unit, we design and make it to suit your components and media, so you won’t have to store your vinyl records in a milk crate. And if it is one of our beautiful beds, there are no sharp edges to catch your fingers on when you tuck in the sheets.

You can’t beat the old ways of individually ‘bench-making’ furniture. Each of our craftsmen works on just one piece at a time, whether an entertainment unit, a table or an armchair, and gives it their full attention ensuring perfection from start to finish.

Using time proven traditional methods like mortise and tenon joints and dovetail drawers, our eye-catching designs are hand-carved and hand-finished; contrasting timbers are used for borders and inlays. The details are precise, balanced and elegant, setting them apart from those of mass-produced items.

From our family to yours. All Pfitzner hardwood furniture comes with a written 10-year structural guarantee. So you can take comfort and enjoy your beautiful furniture with peace of mind that if there is a problem, we will fix it. And that is why our furniture becomes family heirloom pieces, enjoyed for generations.

Forte dining table with forte chairs timber is blackwood natural finish

For lacquer based finished tables: 2 pack Polyurethane and 2 pack acrylic finish.
Wipe after use with a damp rag in the direction of the grain to remove finger prints etc.
Best to use a clean dish cloth with warm water and a spot of detergent. Squeeze as much water as possible from the cloth before wiping.
Dry with a soft cloth again in the direction of the timber grain.
Do not use waxes or oils with lacquer finishes.

For Hard wax oil finishes:
Same as for lacquer finishes.
Use Osmo hard wax oil cleaner for spot fixing light scratches and marks. Follow directions.

Forte Dining Table

We chose to make the Forte timber dining table in Australian Blackwood, but it can also be made in Tasmanian Messmate, Mahogany, Jarrah, Feature Eucalypt, American Oak, Blackwood, Cherry, or Walnut. You can choose from a variety of timbers and timber stains or provide a sample for colour matching.

Our Forte dining table comes with a choice of extension styles: traditional leaf or butterfly. With the traditional extension mechanism, the legs are always at the corner of the table, allowing maximum chair placement between the legs. Alternatively, our Forte design tables feature a unique, lightweight, and easy-to-operate butterfly extension leaf, resulting in automatic extension of the top. It’s important to note that a fixed table will have the timber grain running the length of the table, while an extension one will usually run across the width due to the expansion and contraction of the solid timbers.

We have perfected our solid timber extension tables over many decades your table will not be affected by movement of the timber with the change of seasons. You may not be aware that solid timber will expand and contract with changes in humidity whilst it is in you home. In some cases this can be up to 10mm.

Purchasing a solid timber table from Pfitzner you can relax as the top can always be refurbished one day by future generations.

Timber displayed on the picture: Blackwood, natural finish BW01.

Fixed and extension tables are available in this range.

Did you know? We test all our tables throughout the design and development of new products. We prototype table frames to make sure they can carry our 10-year warranty.

Custom-made to order to your dimensions, style and finish. Call us or visit us in store to order a dining table that will last you a lifetime.

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