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the rectangular top with three frieze drawers, raised on Y-shaped tapering legs 73.5 x 145 x 75cmFootnote: Whilst she is probably best known for her iconic 1959 Hanging Egg Chair, the career of renowned designer Nanna Ditzel cannot be distilled into a single design or aesthetic, but is rather defined by her eclecticism, insatiable appetite for innovation, and rebellious spirit.Born in Copenhagen in 1923, Ditzel first trained as a cabinetmaker before continuing her education at the School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Upon her graduation in 1946, Nanna, alongside her husband, Jørgen, established her first design studio. The partnership was enormously successful, and together the married couple enjoyed both critical and commercial success for their simple, yet innovative furniture designs. In addition to their home designs, the pair also collaborated with Georg Jensen to create a range of Lunning prize winning minimalist jewellery.After the premature death of Jørgen in 1961, Ditzel was forced to reinvent herself as a solo designer. Despite the demands of her young family and the pressures of running a business, Ditzel continued to create imaginative designs in experimental materials. In 1968, Ditzel married her second husband, German designer Kurt Heide, and together they set up their Hampstead showroom, Interspace. After Kurt Heide’s death in 1985, Nanna moved from London to Copenhagen where she established a design studio in her name. With the assistance of her daughter, Ditzel would continue to run her design studio until her death in 2005.Although Ditzel’s oeuvre is enormously versatile, at the core of her legacy is the tension between the simple and comfortable and the imaginative and innovative, present in each of her designs.Condition report: In good re-finished condition, a scratch to one front corner, small veneer chips to corners, some lightly repaired - see additional images.

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