"Octopus" Coat Hanger

A collapsible coat rack composed of eight tubular elements with rounded wood feet that are arranged in a circle and the coiled together in the center and then flared out again above, each tubular element ending in an ovoid wood cap.

Today when we think of where inventive contemporary design is manufactured, we often think of Italy. This, however, was not always the case. Wide acceptance of modern design came somewhat later in Italy than elsewhere, perhaps because of the ever-present conservative influence of the palpable Roman classical past and the slow development of the Italian economy in the twentieth century. To be sure, before World War II there were important modern designers in Italy, foremost Gio Ponti, an architect from ...