Nanna Ditzel: A “Vertebrae” necklace of sterling silver. Design no. 108. L. app. 43 cm. Weight ap. 197 g. Georg Jensen after 1945.
A “Vertebrae” necklace of sterling silver. Design no. 108. L. app. 43 cm. Weight app. 197 g. Georg Jensen after 1945.
Accompanied by Georg Jensen case.
Similar depicted in: Janet Drucker, “Georg Jensen - A Tradition of Splendid Silver”. p. 111. 1997. Monique Faber and Thomas C. Thulstrup, “Georg Jensen: Et eventyr i Dansk Sølv”. 2016. Museet på Koldinghus. pp. 138, 139 and 145. Designed by Nanna Ditzel in 1955.
Nanna Ditzel (1923–2005) was trained as a cabinetmaker and educated as a furniture architect from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design in 1946. “Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel began designing jewellery in connection with a jewellery competition in 1950, which was held by the Joint Council of Goldsmiths in Denmark. They won the competition with a series of startling pieces of jewellery. The jewellery was described as ”harmoniously designed with a fine understanding of the material". It was precisely the material and its vibrant and rich possibilities that Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel understood how to utilize and express in a surprising and simple design, especially considering the time the jewellery was made in.
In 1954, the couple became associated with the Georg Jensen Silversmithy. It was mainly Nanna Ditzel who, supported by her husband, designed the jewellery. Through a play with surfaces and lines, she created a new jewellery expression, focusing on the material and its ability to reflect light and create life on the surface of the pieces.
One day, Georg Jensen's artistic director, Harald Nielsen, had seen a wooden yeast wreath at the Old Denmark – Open Air Museum; the wreath had in older times been used for beer brewing to collect the yeast after the beer was finished. Nielsen subsequently bought a similar wreath and placed it on his desk. During a meeting in his office with Nanna Ditzel, they agreed that the wreath might be the starting point for a piece of jewellery. The result was a necklace, where the joints go through each other, forming a movable wreath that shapes itself according to the woman's neck and reflects both the light and the clothes she wears."
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A “Vertebrae” necklace of sterling silver. Design no. 108. L. app. 43 cm. Weight app. 197 g. Georg Jensen after 1945.
Accompanied by Georg Jensen case.
Similar depicted in: Janet Drucker, “Georg Jensen - A Tradition of Splendid Silver”. p. 111. 1997. Monique Faber and Thomas C. Thulstrup, “Georg Jensen: Et eventyr i Dansk Sølv”. 2016. Museet på Koldinghus. pp. 138, 139 and 145. Designed by Nanna Ditzel in 1955.
Nanna Ditzel (1923–2005) was trained as a cabinetmaker and educated as a furniture architect from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design in 1946. “Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel began designing jewellery in connection with a jewellery competition in 1950, which was held by the Joint Council of Goldsmiths in Denmark. They won the competition with a series of startling pieces of jewellery. The jewellery was described as ”harmoniously designed with a fine understanding of the material". It was precisely the material and its vibrant and rich possibilities that Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel understood how to utilize and express in a surprising and simple design, especially considering the time the jewellery was made in.
In 1954, the couple became associated with the Georg Jensen Silversmithy. It was mainly Nanna Ditzel who, supported by her husband, designed the jewellery. Through a play with surfaces and lines, she created a new jewellery expression, focusing on the material and its ability to reflect light and create life on the surface of the pieces.
One day, Georg Jensen's artistic director, Harald Nielsen, had seen a wooden yeast wreath at the Old Denmark – Open Air Museum; the wreath had in older times been used for beer brewing to collect the yeast after the beer was finished. Nielsen subsequently bought a similar wreath and placed it on his desk. During a meeting in his office with Nanna Ditzel, they agreed that the wreath might be the starting point for a piece of jewellery. The result was a necklace, where the joints go through each other, forming a movable wreath that shapes itself according to the woman's neck and reflects both the light and the clothes she wears."
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