Swen Wenting

Swen Wenting is a Dutch designer who works almost exclusively in wood under the name S-Wen Design. Trained at the Hout en Meubilerings College in Rotterdam, he served internships at the furniture maker Fratelli Boffi in Milan, at Skive Technical School in Denmark and at Van Der Loo Yachtinteriors in Waddinxveen before setting up his own practice.

The work spans furniture, decorative wall pieces, wooden logos and engraved panels, and is built around veneer: he keeps a library of 26 different veneers, cut to half a millimetre, and combines them into colour and grain patterns by hand, by CNC milling and by engraving. Pieces such as the Tavolo in Metamorfosi coffee table and the MDF torso sculptures start from the same premise, that the figure of a wood can be shown rather than covered.