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Dovre

Dovre

A premium Scandinavian brand of stoves, using quality cast iron, Dovre Sense 203 wood burnerDovre make an extensive range of stoves and inset fireplaces in traditional and contemporary designs.
Primarily woodburning and solid fuel appliances are supplemented with a range of gas and electric stoves to ensure there is a Dovre product for every home.  Distributed in the UK through Stovax, availability of most models is good, and technical backup is impressive.
In the showroom we have the Rock 350 woodburner on tablet legs in black.

Named after the beautiful but enduring Norwegian mountain range Dovre’s wood burning, multi-fuel, electric and gas stoves, fires and fireplaces come from 60 years’ experience crafting innovative, high performance heating products built for the harshest Arctic winters.

Scandinavian Reliability Built In

Built to last Scandinavian winters, you can rely on premium quality, cast iron Dovre fireplaces, stoves and accessories.

In fact, Dovre’s manufacturing expertise with premium grade cast iron is such that all cast parts on their wood burning stoves and fireplaces come with a 5 year guarantee. With expertly crafted wood burning and multi-fuel fires and stoves as well as highly convenient gas and electric models, there is a Dovre for every home.

Each of Dovre’s stoves and fires begins its life in their foundry.

Firing at up to 1500°C, furnaces melt down the raw materials to make high quality cast iron for their wood burning stoves and fires. Moulded with absolute precision for strength and longevity, the cast iron used in Dovre products has excellent durability and thermal qualities. Radiating heat long after the fire has died, the cast iron stoves and fires retain their shape even after years of use. Thanks to its versatile nature, cast iron can be crafted into a huge variety of shapes and textures. This brings beauty and presence to your interior whether traditional or contemporary. Whatever your choice – wood burning, multi-fuel, electric or gas stove – your cast iron Dovre stove or fireplace will be built to the uncompromising standards you would expect from our Scandinavian heritage.

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Jotul Discounts for Norwegian Day

Extra discounts offered on selected Jotul Stoves and inserts from 17th to 31st of May 2015 to help celebrate Norwegian National Day.

Jotul showroom area at J Day Stoneworks
Jotul showroom area at J Day Stoneworks

Norwegian Constitution Day is the national day of Norway and is an official public holiday observed on May 17 each year. Among Norwegians, the day is referred to simply as syttende mai (lit. “seventeenth May”), Nasjonaldagen (The National Day).

The Constitution of Norway was signed at Eidsvoll on May 17 in the year 1814. The constitution declared Norway to be an independent kingdom in an attempt to avoid being ceded to Sweden after Denmark–Norway‘s devastating defeat in the Napoleonic Wars.

The celebration of this day began spontaneously among students and others from early on. However, Norway was at that time in a union with Sweden (following the Convention of Moss in August 1814) and for some years the King of Sweden and Norway was reluctant to allow the celebrations. For a few years during the 1820s, King Karl Johan actually banned it, believing that celebrations like this were, in fact, a kind of protest and disregard — even revolt — against the union.[2] The king’s attitude changed after the Battle of the Square in 1829, an incident which resulted in such a commotion that the king had to allow commemorations on the day. It was, however, not until 1833 that public addresses were held, and official celebration was initiated near the monument of former government minister Christian Krohg, who had spent much of his political life curbing the personal power of the monarch. The address was held by Henrik Wergeland, thoroughly witnessed and accounted for by an informantdispatched by the king himself.

After 1864 the day became more established when the first children’s parade was launched in Christiania, at first consisting only of boys. This initiative was taken by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, although Wergeland made the first known children’s parade at Eidsvoll around 1820. It was only in 1899 that girls were allowed to join in the parade for the first time. In 1905, the union with Sweden was dissolved and Prince Carl of Denmark was chosen to be King of an independent Norway, under the name Haakon VII. Obviously, this ended any Swedish concern for the activities of the National Day.

By historical coincidence, the Second World War ended in Norway nine days before that year’s Constitution Day, on May 8, 1945, when the occupying German forces surrendered. Even if The Liberation Day is an official flag day in Norway, the day is not an official holiday and is not widely celebrated. Instead, a new and broader meaning has been added to the celebration of Norwegian Constitution Day on May 17.