Trinidad Chair By Nanna Ditzel
Nanna Ditzel knows how to make furniture design. From the start of her career in the post war years, she has continuously been working with new materials and new techniques. Various materials such as fibre glass, wickerwork and foam rubber are all included in here furniture designs.
The Trinidad chair is one of Nanna Ditzel’s greatest successes. The chair was designed in 1993. It has long since achieved the status of a modern classic furniture design. The distinctive chair takes its name from Trinidad, whose traditional fretwork techniques inspired Nanna Ditzel.
Nanna Ditzel was a seemingly inexhaustible source of creativity and innovation that spanned a long life and career. The Danish queen of design had a very practical and operative method towards her design, as well as combining that with many streams of influence and the result is a very eclectic range of creations. One of those most popular and influential piece is the Trinidad Chair, inspired by the country of Trinidad in the Caribbean. Created in 1993 and was inspired by the island-like feel and the tradition fretwork techniques done there, she infused it with the modern and made it completely her own, as the very distinct chair reflects the cool, carefree nature of Trinidad. It has become one her most successful pieces and widely known, and is still in production today.
It has been tagged as a true “modern classic”, as the chair has a natural functionality about it as well complimenting any d
