Nanna Ditzel
Nanna Ditzel (6 October 1923 in Copenhagen - 17 June 2005 in Copenhagen) was a Danish furniture designer.[1]
She studied at the Danish School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen with painter Victor Isbrand, Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen, Peter Hvidt and Kaare Klint graduating in 1946. Her works include cabinet-making, jewellery, tableware and textiles. She also created jewellery designs for Georg Jensen and furniture for Frederica.[2][3][4][5][6]
Main works
- Children's Highchair [7]
- Hanging Egg Chair [8]
- Trinidad chair[9]
- Lulu cradle [10]
- Nanny Rocking Chair [11]
- Bench for two [12]
- Butterfly chair [13]
- Toad stool and table [14]
The Children's Highchair, designed 1955, was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon.[15] in the Children's canon category as a masterpiece of Danish design.
Awards
- 1956 Lunning Prize
- 1991: C. F. Hansen Medal
- 1998 the lifelong Artists' Grant by the Danish Ministry of Culture
Bibliography
- Nanna Ditzel: ’’ Danish chairs’’, 1954
- Nanna Ditzel: ‘’ Nanna Ditzel, Munkeruphus 1992( Book )
- Nanna Ditzel: ‘’ Tanker bliver ting : Nanna Ditzel design’’ , 1994
- Henrik Sten Mller : ‘’Motion and beauty : the book of Nanna Ditzel’’ , 1998
- Nanna Ditzel: Nanna Ditzel : trapperum ; stairscapes ; Exhibition Nanna Ditzel Trapperum - Stairscapes Kunstindustrimuseet, 2002
- Fabia Masciello : ‘’Nanna Ditzel : design nordico al femminile ‘’, 2003 en Italien
- Hanne Horsfeld: ‘’ Nanna Ditzel’’ , 2005[16]
References
- ↑ Oxford index A Dictionary of Modern Design
- ↑ Danish net.com
- ↑ New York Times obituary
- ↑ R and company
- ↑ Hammersby
- ↑ Mcm daily
- ↑ Nanna Ditzel official web site
- ↑ Sika Design
- ↑ Frederica
- ↑ brdr-kruger
- ↑ Nordic contractor pdf Sikaindoor icons
- ↑ Inside out
- ↑ Core 77
- ↑ Pencil kit co. uk
- ↑ Kulturkanon, S. 74"
- ↑ Worldcat
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