Nanna Ditzel

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Nanna Ditzel (born Hauberg ; born October 6, 1923 in Copenhagen ; † June 17, 2005 there ) was a Danish textile , jewelry and furniture designer .

Life

The trained cabinet maker gained fame primarily through the design of furniture. After completing her training at the Richards School, she studied at the Copenhagen School of Applied Arts (Kunsthåndværkerskolen) and the Royal Danish Academy of Art , where she also met her first husband. Together they designed furniture for small apartments, designed exhibitions and designed children's furniture.

Her furniture classics, which have become known worldwide, include the egg-shaped hanging basket armchair ( 1957) and the Trissen stool (1962). In the late 1960s, it attracted attention with its fiberglass and foam furniture. For the company Fredericia Furniture she designed the Bænk for to (1989), the shaped wooden chair Trinidad (1993) and the chair Sommerfuglen (1990).

She designed silver jewelry for the Copenhagen silversmith Georg Jensen , such as B. the series Surf .

Her multi-award-winning creations a. a. in exhibition houses in Amsterdam , London , New York , Madrid , Berlin , Glasgow , Vienna , Reykjavík , Manchester , Stockholm , Paris and Milan .

Between 1968 and 1986 she lived in London and together with her husband Kurt Heide founded the international furniture store Interspace in Hampstead .

Nanna Ditzel was first married to the architect Jørgen Ditzel (1921–1961) from 1946 to 1961. From this marriage there were three children. In 1968 she got her second marriage to Kurt Heide (1918–1985).

Awards

  • 1956 Lunning Prize
  • 1991 CF Hansen Medal
  • 1998 Lifelong artistic gift from the Danish Ministry of Culture

literature

  • Charlotte & Peter Fiell: Scandinavian design. Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8228-4115-3 .
  • Charlotte & Peter Fiell: Design of the 20th Century , Taschen, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8365-4107-7 , p. 216.

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personal data
SURNAME Ditzel, Nanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 2005
Place of death Copenhagen