Studio BBPR 'Attribution' Coat Rack with Shelf, Metal, Walnut, Italy, 1950s

A metal coat rack attributed to Studio BBPR, Italy, 1950s.  

A bamboo and rattan coat rack design attributed to Franco Albini, Italy, 1950s.

A coat rack with top shelf designed by Franco Campo and Carlo Graffi and produced by Home, Italy, 1950s. In plywood, black-lacquered metal, and red and white-painted solid wood.   

A brass and black-lacquered metal coat rack designed and produced in Italy, 1950s.

A Space Age design with the coat hanger by Studio BBPR. Graduates of the Milan Polytechnic, the four designers in their early work followed the themes of Italian Rationalism of the 1930s, although they were not an integral part of the main 'Group 7' Movement and MIAR, they collaborated on some projects with Figini and Pollini; these compositional canons can be clearly read in an exemplary building such as the colonia elioterapica in Legnano (1938), where they also realised popular housing units, the so-called Le Grazie working-class neighbourhood (1940-1942). They distinguished themselves for various town-planning schemes, the Pavia Master Plan (1932), the Tourism Plan for the Island of Elba (1939), and above all for the most important and far-reaching, the Valle d'Aosta Master Plan (1936-1937). During this period they took an active part in the controversy that arose between rationalists and traditionalists and at first, like others, felt they could support the clash for freedom of expression and the triumph of modern architecture within fascism, but after the introduction of the racial laws of 1938 that also affected one of their collaborators, the BBPR architects...

This 1950s Italian wall-mounted coat rack, inspired by the Fontana Arte style, stands out with its elegant design. The patinated brass frame surrounds an antiqued mirror, highlightin...

Set of two "Erato" coat racks by Lodovico Barbariano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto N. Rogers for Artemide. Beautiful details on both top and bottom.

Italian modern round metal floor coat rack Melpomene by BBPR for Artemide, 1970s Floor coat hanger mod. Melpomene with a round base. The structure is in metal with a dark silver fini...