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Johnny Swing, Half-Dollar Chair

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