Tag: 50’s

Nanna + Jørgen Ditzel

16/12/2013

Nanna Ditzel, egg hanging chair

A selection of simple and functional vintage furniture by Danish design couple Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel. The two designers established a joint office in Copenhagen, in 1946 and received through the years many prizes and recognitions for their work in furniture, jewellery, kitchenware, glasses and fabrics.  Nanna Ditzel was also a cabinetmaker, a background that gave her the fundamental understanding of furniture making prior to its design.

First image is the iconic Egg, a rattan hanging chair designed in 1957 by Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel, still in production today by Bonacina, Italy.

 

Perle, by Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel, Kitani, Japan

the daybed Perle originally designed in 1951, above relaunched by Kitani, Japan.

 

Nanna Ditzel, basket chair 2

Nanna Ditzel, basket chair

Wooven cane Basket Chair, designed in 1950 (image source)

 

Nanna Ditzel, ranna chair

Ranna, the famous 3-legged rattan chair, one of Ditzel‘s first designs, produced today by Sika- Design

 

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Oda or the Nursing armchair, designed in 1953 (image source)

 

NANNA DITZE dinning table 1960

Lacquered wood dinning table, designed in 1960 (image source)

on enlightenment

27/08/2012

As the Telegraph reports (here) ten teenage boys were castrated in the 1950s by the Dutch Roman Catholic Church as a “treatment” for homosexuality. Dutch journalist Joep Dohmen,  uncovered ten cases of the castrations, one of which was suffered by Henk Heithuis, who was castrated as a minor for reporting to police sexual abuse by a priest that he endured while in the boarding home. Although the priests were convicted of the abuses, Heithuis was still transported to a Catholic hospital, and underwent a surgical castration as a treatment for homosexuality and, according to the report, a punishment for tattling on the clergy.

May I remind you that the Catholic church actively encouraged the castration of pre-pubescent boys, for musical training during the Baroque period. At the time every church choir used castrated boy sopranos (Castrati), as women were not allowed to participate in church services.

Find the best cure for Christianity here and some American 50’s homophobic propaganda here. Photo via life