Designer · Denmark · 1923–2005
Nanna Ditzel
Nanna Ditzel (1923–2005) – Danish designer of furniture, jewellery and textiles, creator of the 1959 wicker Hanging Egg Chair.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1923–2005
- Country
- Denmark
Nanna Ditzel (née Hauberg) was born in 1923 in Copenhagen. She studied cabinetmaking at Kunsthåndværkerskolen, and from 1944 studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. With her husband Jørgen Ditzel (1921–1961), she won a silver medal at the Cabinetmakers' Guild exhibition in 1945. From the 1950s, she designed silver jewellery for Georg Jensen, and at the Milan Triennale she received three silver medals and one gold medal.
Her designs include the wicker Hanging Egg Chair (1959), suspended on a chain, the Trisse stool (1962), the Trinidad chair (1993) for Fredericia Furniture, and the Hallingdal fabric for Kvadrat. She received the Lunning Prize (1956) and the Danish ID Prize.
Key designs
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Hanging Egg Chair
wicker hanging armchair on a chain
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Trisse
stool
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Trinidad
chair
