Mid Century Century Coat Rack
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Fruitwood
Mid-20th Century French Coat Racks and Stands
Rattan
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Marble, Chrome, Metal
Vintage 1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Chrome
Vintage 1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Aluminum
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Birch, Teak
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Rattan
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Brass
Vintage 1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Aluminum
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Chrome
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood, Rubber
Vintage 1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Marble, Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Marble, Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Teak
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Plastic
Mid-20th Century Belgian Coat Racks and Stands
Iron
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
Vintage 1930s Spanish Arts and Crafts Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Marble, Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Brass
Vintage 1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood, Teak
Vintage 1950s Italian Coat Racks and Stands
Iron
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Steel, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Bamboo, Rattan, Wood
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Beech
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Rope
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood, Teak
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Bamboo
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Iron
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Vintage 1960s American Industrial Coat Racks and Stands
Aluminum
Vintage 1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Plastic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wrought Iron
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Fruitwood
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wood
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Bamboo, Cane, Rattan
Vintage 1950s German Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Wire
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Bamboo, Cane, Rattan
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Mid Century Century Coat Rack For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Mid Century Century Coat Rack?
A Close Look at Mid-Century Modern Furniture
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern American furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
Postwar American architects and designers were animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist “International Style” architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the ’30s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale, in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for, respectively, pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair. George Nelson and his design team created Bubble lamp shades using a new translucent polymer skin. Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were re-purposed: the Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs that used surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests. The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influence in the rise of modern design in the United States thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century designers caught the spirit.
Classically-oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb — who designed holistic groups of sleek, blonde-wood furniture — and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
Finding the Right Coat Racks and Stands for You
Your guests might have to endure all kinds of harsh climes to get to your housewarming party, so let’s make sure their trusty overcoats and umbrellas have a home. Shop the antique and vintage coat racks and stands on 1stDibs today.
Coat racks, umbrella stands, wall-mounted hooks for outerwear — they’ve long served a practical purpose. In the days of travel by horse or foot, a guest might arrive on your doorstep bedraggled, windblown and often dripping with rain. While transportation has thankfully improved since then, a coat rack in the entryway or foyer of your home is still the beacon it was back then: It says, “Come in, where it’s dry and warm. Hang up your coat and stay a while.”
Coat stands are among history’s fairly rudimentary ideas, so it’s difficult to point to the original inventor of this eternally functional fixture, but Thomas Jefferson was said to have fashioned one of his own at Monticello. Jefferson, who would’ve made a great interior designer, placed a long wooden pole in his closet that was adorned with spokes from which his coats and other garments could be hung. The simplicity of Jefferson’s coat-tree is echoed in designs from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The timeless convenience of a wooden coat rack has endured. While there are striking Art Deco coat stands made of oak and walnut that would meet your mudroom needs well, some of the product designers behind what we now call mid-century modern coat stands turned to materials other than wood, working frequently with plastic and chrome to create unconventional alternatives. Simpler and pared-down coat stands of the mid-20th century were occasionally so interesting in form that they could pass as minimalist sculptures when not in use. Some designers, such as Jacques Adnet, helped to redefine what these classic furnishings could look like, integrating saddle leather and brass and sometimes even horseshoes for his wall hooks and racks.
Although a coat rack is undoubtedly a practical investment, we know that fun comes along with functionality. There is plenty to explore in the collection of antique, vintage and contemporary coat racks and stands on 1stDibs, so go ahead — hang up your coat and stay a while.
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