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Hang It All Coat rack
Ray Eames, 1953

Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953
Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953

Used instead of simple hooks, the brightly coloured wooden balls of the Hang it all coat rack are aimed at encouraging children to literally hang up all their things. Thanks to the uniform distance between the balls, multiple coat racks can be mounted alongside one another for additional storage. 'Hang it all' is a cheerful alternative to boring coat hooks – and not just for children's rooms.

Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953

Structure sheathed steel wire

Balls Wood, clear or colour lacquered

Dimensions 50,5 x P17 x H37 cm

Hang It All – colours versions

The original colour composition of 'Hang it all' was conceived by Ray Eames. In celebration of what would have been her 100th birthday in December 2012, Vitra and the Eames Office developed new versions of the coat rack in hues of red, green and white.

Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953
Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953

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Multicolor

Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953
Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953

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Green shades

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Red shades

Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953

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White shades

Hang It All – wood versions

The bright and colourful range of Hang it All, originally designed as a children's coat hanger by Charles & Ray Eames now has a black, a walnut and a pinewood versions added to it.

Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953
Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953

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Pine

Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953
Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953

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Walnut

Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953
Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953

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Black ash

Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953
Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953
Hang It All Coat rack Ray Eames, 1953

CHARLES & RAY EAMES

CHARLES & RAY EAMES

Charles Eames, born 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri, studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and opened his own office together with Charles M. Gray in 1930. In 1935 he founded another architectural firm with Robert T. Walsh. After receiving a fellowship in 1938 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, he moved to Michigan and assumed a teaching position in the design department the following year. In 1940, he and Eero Saarinen won first prize for their joint entry in the competition "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" organized by the New York Museum of Modern Art. During the same year, Eames became head of the department of industrial design at Cranbrook.

Ray Eames, born Bernice Alexandra Kaiser, was born in Sacramento, California in 1912. She attended the May Friend Bennet School in Millbrook, New York, and continued her studies in painting under Hans Hofmann through 1937. During this year she exhibited her work in the first exhibition of the American Abstract Artists group at the Riverside Museum in New York. She matriculated at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1940.

Charles and Ray Eames married in 1941 and moved to Los Angeles, where together they began experimenting with techniques for the three-dimensional moulding of plywood. The aim was to create comfortable chairs that were affordable. However, the war interrupted their work, and Charles and Ray turned instead to the design and development of leg splints made of plywood, which were manufactured in large quantities for the US Navy. In 1946, they exhibited their experimental furniture designs at MoMA. The Herman Miller Company in Zeeland, Michigan, subsequently began to produce Eames furniture. Charles and Ray participated in the 1948 'Low-Cost Furniture' competition at MoMA, and they built the Eames House in 1949 as their own private residence. In addition to their work in furniture design and architecture, they also regularly turned their hand to graphic design, photography, film and exhibition design.

In 1957 Vitra signed a licence agreement with Herman Miller and began producing the Eameses' designs for Europe and the Middle East. Charles and Ray Eames have had a profound and lasting influence on Vitra. It was the encounter with their work that spurred the company's beginnings as a furniture manufacturer. Yet it is not just the products of Charles and Ray Eames that have left a mark on Vitra. Even today, their design philosophy continues to significantly shape the company's values, orientation and goals.