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Johnny Swing Makes Furniture From Coins

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Johnny Swing makes furniture from coins

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/...-artist.html

Maybe the images can sneak past the paywall:

Johnny-Swing-Makes-Furniture-From-Coins

Johnny-Swing-Makes-Furniture-From-Coins

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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Very interesting, thanks for that!
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I wonder how many rare coins he used?
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It's all just PSD. No extra val... ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS?!? Well, shut my mouth!
ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!!
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Needs a job.
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That is his job.

The designs are pretty cool but I don't like that he defaces the coins as part of the work so they're not as recognizable. Kinda defeats the point.
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Don't look comfortable, and at the price you aren't going to use them anyway, so they serve no purpose. They aren't THAT attractive so that pretty much puts them in the catagory of scrap metal as far as I'm concerned.
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This work is subjective and it only takes one customer to be successful.
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@Conder101, think of them as works of art, not furniture. As such, there is no rational means of determining a value, and nobody will sit on them.
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As such, there is no rational means of determining a value,
True. It is worth whatever someone is willing to pay.
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Quote:

Quote:
As such, there is no rational means of determining a value,

True. It is worth whatever someone is willing to pay


Q/ What is irrational about that ?

Cheers,

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Nice work!
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Q/ What is irrational about that ?
Ever pay a lot for something just because you really wanted it?

If not, consider yourself lucky. People make irrational purchases all the time.
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The irrationality of any one bid does not make sale by bidding irrational.

To borrow from another field, sale by bidding might be known as "crowdsourcing the value".

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Hmm, can't wait to put it outside this summer in 107 degree heat and lay down on it!!
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