2025-01-29
29 分钟Foreign.
This is Monocle on Design, a show where we discuss everything from craft and furniture to architecture and graphics.
I'm Nick Minis.
On today's program, who is the grand dame of Danish design?
That's a question we answer at a new exhibition in Copenhagen.
We also learn why 1951 was a key year in architectural acoustics.
Plus, we visit the oldest paint manufacturer in Britain.
All that coming up on Monocle on Design.
Hello and welcome to today's program.
We begin the episode in Copenhagen where an exhibition highlights the work of the late Danish furniture designer Nana Ditzel.
The creative moved to London during the 1960s where her bold use of colours and fascination with more laid back furniture chimed with the zeitgeist.
It's a life that's documented in a new show called Nanna Ditzel Breaking Free, which is on show at the Danish Architecture Centre.
Monocle's Copenhagen correspondent Michael Booth went along to the exhibition and met Pernille Stockman, its senior curator.
Pernille began by sharing how Ditzel continues to inspire.
She's regarded actually as the grand dame of Danish design.
She took the very best from the Danish design tradition, the focus on quality and putting the human being into the center.
But beyond that, she looked out into the international scene and was very inspired by the new materials and how people were socializing.
And she actually saw that there was a need to transform the way we were, you know, being together, the way we were sitting and how, for example, how can we have good and very deep conversations in another way?
So she broke somehow also with the traditions, which is very inspiring.
And actually in front of us we have one of her designs which was originally for children.