Johnny Sørensen trained as a cabinet maker before joining the Royal Danish Academy of Archtitecture, Design, Conservation in Copenhagen from 1963-66. Together with Rud Thygesen, Sørensen established his own design studio in 1966 from which they created furniture in the Scandinavian modernistic tradition.
In 1968 Sørensen and Thygesen designed the Kongemøblerna (eng. The Kings furniture) a collection of furniture in a strict geometrical design produced by Botium. Many of the duo’s furniture has been used in public spaces, both nationally and internationally, such as the café chair Partout from 1996 that was made for Copenhagen airport. Thygesen & Sørensen's works for the Danish manufacturer Magnus Olesen are the their most prolific.
Sørensen and Thygesen are represented at a.o. the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Designmuseum Denmark, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and at the Museum of Furniture Studies in Stockholm.
