Beech Stool by Nanna Ditzel for Kolds Savværk

The Danish designer Nanna Ditzel (1923-2005) completed a cabinetmaking apprenticeship and then studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen, where she met her future husband and design partner Jørgen Ditzel. In 1959 they jointly designed the Hanging Egg Chair, a hanging chair of woven cane, produced by Pierantonio Bonacina in Italy. After Jørgen's death in 1961, Nanna Ditzel continued to work independently and in 1989 became the second in-house designer at Fredericia, for which she designed the Trinidad chair in 1993 with characteristic milled grooves in the seat shell. She worked across materials with cane, foam rubber, plywood and textiles.