Design
Design
Lot Closed
October 7, 06:35 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Johnny Swing
Half-Dollar Chair
2003
number 13 from an edition of 50 plus 1 artist proof
welded half-dollars, stainless steel
with welded tag signed Johnny Swing and numbered HDC13KW16
32 1/4 x 46 x 32 (81.9 x 116.8 x 81.3 cm)
Mel Byars, New Chairs: Design, Technology, and Materials, London, 2006, pp. 146-147 (for a related side chair)
David Nielson, "To Coin a Chaise: Seductive Furniture Made of Currency," Take Magazine, issue 5, vol. 3, November 2017, p. 41