Ditzel, Nanna & Joergen, Danske Stole / Danish Chairs, Host & Sons Forlag, Copenhagen, 1954, Text in Danish and English. softback
22,3 x 21,5 cm. 92 pages


Rare 1954 publication on Danish Chairs by the designers Nanna and Joergen Ditzel. 92 pages, 86 of which are excellent black and white photographs of chairs by the likes of Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl, Kint-Larsen, Kaare Klint, Poul Kjaerholm. Photos by Erik Hansen and Keld Helmer-Petersen.

Condition: Ex-library rebound. Library plate on front page, stamp on spine and thumbed. Some yellow inkstains on pages 10-15. One good point is the bindings normally go on these and because it has been rebound it is solid.



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