Nanna Ditzel chair 1962  

Hi szym. I've actually...
Hi szym. I've actually briefly worked with the craftsman who was employed as a young boy at Poul Christiansen and made all the joints for the original 2 chairs back in 1962. Can't remember his name, but he has his own company where he makes church organs.
I have some info somewhere but may I ask what the pictures are for?

🙂 Nice to hear that someone...
🙂 Nice to hear that someone can help me 🙂
First of all I study at Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (Poland) and because of it I need some info about Ditzel's chair.
So... I have subcject called : "Furniture design and technology" and my task is to choose one piece of furniture and make very careful analyse. I chose exactly this chair and now is to late to change my mind 😉
I need to know as much as it's possible, but a specialy I'm interesting to know how it was madden (the most important for me is realization of back in this chair). My prof called my taska constructive analyse 😀
Any info, pics etc. wont be used for commercial or sth like that. I need it only for my studies.
Thank You for great help 🙂
Best regards

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What a GREAT chair!
Talk about elegant.

Well in that case I'll be hap...
Well in that case I'll be happy to help you. I've found a few links and some pictures that might be of use to you. Finding further info or pictures is going to be difficult, I think, as the chair is not widely documented at all. Only a total of 4 chairs was eventually made for the small exibition Nanna & Jørgen Ditzel designed to show the skills of Povl Christiansen (to which Verner Panton, a close friend of the Ditzels, designed the lighting fixtures!).
I know that shortly before Nanna Ditzel passed away, she was preparing this dining chair for actual production by a Danish company (I've forgot which company it was), but I think the plan was abandoned since she never finished it.
http://https://ext.kb.dk/F/24XN667FTHQV239RUU4DVT9SK5IINBTCJGGLVR6MRAPGJ...

Hmmm, seems the link isn't...
Hmmm, seems the link isn't working. Just follow the link below, press the "Search in Furnitureindex" button and search for Nanna Ditzel in the 'Designer' searchbox - then the chair will appear as no. 77.
http://www.furnitureindex.dk

What
an interesting chair ! I've never seen it. Would make a nice companion to my recently-designed three-legged café table ?
The design is highly logical, structurally and aesthetically -- a minimum of parts, assembled into a sound and coherent whole. And it has hope at least of being comfortable. But what a devil to make !
The compound-angled mortises in plywood, receiving angled plywood tenons -- and would they be wedged ? And the curved top of the rear leg, meeting exactly a curved and mitered edge of the seat back. Assuming one could make these parts meet to within the thickness of a face veneer, how would you connect them ? A little spline ?
But, craftsmen thrive on challenges. Looks like at least one example was made successfully. . .

Exactly.
For me now the...
Exactly.
For me now the most important question is how the back is connected with the other parts? What kind of methodology was used to create such special chair... I guess it's not only a piece of wood and couple screws 😉

Just a guess
If I had to reproduce this I would make the curve as one piece, cut and trim/bevel the back leg then attach with glue and pins. The seat is pretty straight forward, just working out the correct angles for the mortices would be tricky. Clamping the back would be a pain also.
I worked out a quick 3d rendering but I'm new to the whole forum thing and can't figure out the easy way to attach an image.