A Silent Female Revolution in Design: 'Nordic Table Design 1900–1970'
We at Nanna Ditzel Design are delighted to be part of this new exhibition celebrating seventy years of Nordic female creativity that has opened in the heart of the Italian capital. 'Nordic Table Design 1900–1970' at the Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20, offers visitors an in-depth look at how women from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden quietly transformed twentieth-century design. ​
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Bench for Two in ICON
Nanna Ditzel Design are delighted that the new edition (Autumn / Winter 25/26 ) of ICON magazine features a nine-page article about Nanna Ditzel and the Bench for Two. It includes great interviews with Thomas Graversen from Fredericia Furniture and Dennie Ditzel, Nanna’s eldest daughter.
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Click here to read the article.​
Toulon Exhibition
Nanna Ditzel Design are very pleased you be an exhibition in Toulon. It takes place during the Design Parade Toulon festival. The exhibition features around 180 works by 60 designers, exploring the world of childhood through furniture, toys, decorative objects, and illustrated books. And we at Nanna Ditzel Design are delighted to be part of it. The exhibition will showcase three pieces from our collection: the Children’s High Chair, Trissen, and the Lulu Cradle.
The exhibition runs from 26th June to 2nd November 25 at Hôtel des Arts – 236 Bd. Maréchal Leclerc, 83000 Toulon.
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Nanna Ditzel – Breaking Free
DAC's exhibition Breaking Free on display at the Gallery Staircase, in the Danish Architecture Center, explores Nanna Ditzel's visionary philosophy, and shows how she rethought the relationship between furniture, space and people. The exhibition invites the audience to engage physically with Ditzel's modular and flexible designs. For more information, click here.
The exhibition continued at the Danish Architecture Center, Gallery Staircase, Copenhagen until 25th May 2025.
Mid-Century Marvels
We are delighted to be part of the exhibition Mid-Century Marvels An exhibition of archival designs curated by Paula Gerbase at Georg Jensen, London. Celebrating their return to Mayfair, the exhibition highlights how the mid-century design movement — with its focus on simplicity and craftsmanship — influenced the House’s work from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s, featuring a curation of previously unseen designs in hollowware and jewellery.
On 15 January – 16 February 2025 at 108 New Bond Street, London W1S 1EF.
The Living Room of the Future
Take a trip back to 1952 to see Nanna and Jørgen in this clip entitled The Living Room of the Future, by Politiken’s Film Journal.
Thanks to the Danish Film Institute who have recently digitalised this. To see the clip click here.
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.
Pompidou Exhibition
We’re delighted that Nanna Ditzel’s iconic children’s furniture, including her beloved Toad Stool, is featured in the Centre Pompidou’s major exhibition, L’enfance du design - Un siècle de mobilier pour enfant , in Paris. This captivating timeline explores a century of innovative children’s furniture design, and we’re proud to see Nanna’s work showcased. A heartfelt thank you to Marie-Ange Brayer at Centre Pompidou for curating this remarkable exhibition. The French newspaper Libération recently highlighted the show, featuring an image of Nanna Ditzel’s Toad Stool, originally designed in 1962. This timeless piece, now produced by Snedkergaarden, remains popular and is available in a variety of beautiful colors and wood types. On view until August 12, 2024.
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.