The History of Søren Willadsen’s Furniture Factory
We are delighted to be part of the exhibition Historien om Søren Willadsens Møbelfabrik (The History of Søren Willadsen’s Furniture Factory). The exhibition continues until the 27th of April 2025, in Vejen, Denmark. Here follows a little bit about Søren Willadsen. He had a great influence on the Danish furniture industry. He delivered furniture to Danes' private living rooms, decorated hundreds of hotel rooms, assembled ferries, and individual pieces of furniture he produced appeared in international films passociated with names such as Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. For more information click here.
New Nanna Ditzel Children's Library in Kolding, Denmark
The exhibition 'Taking Design to New Heights' at Trapholt was a great success. Now, following the closure of the exhibition, part of it lives on at Kolding Library.​The library environment which is a recreated version of the children's library in Lyngby in Copenhagen from 1968, was built by Trapholt based on Nanna Ditzel's original drawings. You can visit Kolding Library today and see it for yourself.
Exhibition - Taking Design to New Heights
In the fall of 2023, the exhibition 'Nanna Ditzel - Taking Design to New Heights' opened at the art and design museum Trapholt in Kolding, Denmark. The exhibition celebrates Nanna Ditzel, who would have turned 100 years old in 2023. "Now, her world of ideas and close connection to nature is fully explored in the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date. We are invited on a journey into her sensuous world through furniture, jewellery, textiles, applied art and her trademark stairscapes." (from the exhibition catalogue) The exhibition, curated by curator Sara Staunsager in collaboration with curatorial assistant Kristian Roland Larsen, shows Nanna Ditzel's entire life work. It focuses on the development of her 60-year career, her desire for freedom, creative drive and curiosity about life, as well as her need and ability to think in new ways. In connection with the exhibition, Trapholt has published a comprehensive and very exciting book about Nanna Ditzel. The exhibition ran until August 11, 2024 and was a great success.
Jewellery Book
Before Nanna Ditzel died, she asked her daughter Dennie and her good friend Hanne Grane Engel if they would arrange for a book about her jewellery to be published. Dennie and Hanne promised to do their best to fulfill this wish, and they worked on it for many years. Finally, in April 2023, the book "Nanna Ditzel's Jewellery" was published. It is written by Anne Cathrine Wolsgaard Iversen and published by Politikens Forlag. It is a big, beautiful book that contains the story of Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel's work with the jewellery and numerous excellent pictures of the jewellery production. In addition, there is a complete index of the entire jewellery collection. We hope the book will be published in English in the near future.
Nanna Ditzel - The Playful Designer
To celebrate Nanna Ditzel's 100th birthday in 2023, Thin Green Line has produced a very thorough and informative documentary. To form a full picture of Nanna Ditzel’s life and career, her innovative designs and her private archives including her diaries have been researched over the course of eight months. The story of Nanna Ditzel is told partly through interviews conducted with family, colleagues and historians. "Nanna Ditzel - the playful designer" can be viewed here in Danish with English subtitles.