Space Age Wardrobe with Hat Rack, 1970s — Aluminum frame and white lacquered wood

A modular wall coat rack from the 1970s with the typical vocabulary of Space Age design. Three horizontal rows of aluminum square tubes are screwed together via four vertical axes, forming a strictly geometric grid image measuring 74 cm in width and 109.5 cm in height. The depth is 24.5 cm.

Twelve cream-colored hook bodies are hung in the rail grid, their hourglass shape with two round cutouts being a classic motif of Italian plastic design of those years. In addition, shiny U-shaped metal claws, serving as robust coat hooks, are mounted on the upper two rows. This provides about five to six effective hanging points for clothes, supplemented by the upper hat shelf made of white lacquered or white coated wood. Wall mounting is simple, using two hooks in the open upper rail ends.

No factory label has been preserved — an orange-yellow residue on a hook body may be the remains of a manufacturer's sticker. The formal language, the material combination, and the modular construction place the piece in Italian production of the early 1970s.

Such a coat rack fits into the entrance area of a 70s-oriented apartment, into a gallery or studio foyer, or as an honest functional sculpture in a collection of Space Age furniture. Bright aluminum and muted cream white are a calm, not loud color combination. Condition: overall good, with age-appropriate traces on the aluminum frame and a diagonal paint crack on the top of the hat shelf, which faces the wall when mounted and is not visible in everyday use.