Johnny Swing

Biomorphic, flowing, waves of money. The first decade of 21^st Century Design was defined by the art market as an era of limited edition sculptural furniture, with galleries funding their designers' increasingly lavish creations in titanium, carbon fibre, marble and thermoplastic.Prices soared and the gap between creator and finished work widened. Editions were sold out before they were produced. Materials were utilized that weren't properly tested for stability. Designers were hyped and then forgotten. Looking back on the first decade, who would have guessed that perhaps the most loved designs to emerge from the synthetic rubble was produced by a self-styled welder in Vermont who works in the traditions of the American studio furniture movement, making his pieces by hand with a small circle of craftsmen. Johnny Swing's All The King's Men is his organic masterwork, the final resolution of the ideas he first started exploring with his iconic Nickel Couch in 2003. Built to last. Legal tender. And extremely comfortable as well.