Frame Hanger: a piece of art you hang coats on

& Design's "Frame hanger" is a huge, leaning cut-out of a silhouette of an artistic scene, intended to be used as a coat-hanger. Link (via Cribcandy)

[#1 posted by MartyPants , April 18, 2008 7:32 PM]

My first thought was, "hmm, interesting, it's flat and certainly looks unique," but it's just leaning against the wall (not very exciting to me). Looks like it was photographed in any old apartment. I can easily imagine this in a really slick lounge...maybe it's just the photo that's turning me off. Great eye catcher, though.

[#2 posted by Moon , April 18, 2008 8:30 PM]

Takes up too much wall space.

[#3 posted by obdan , April 18, 2008 8:49 PM]

You could easily suspend from the wall so that it would still serve the same function.
It looks silly and out of place on the floor and leaning like that.
But, the idea is not all bad.

[#4 posted by hygraed , April 18, 2008 9:55 PM]

At the risk of sounding like a pretentious art-school kid, the phrase "artistic scene" conjures up images of the shit you find above the bed in motels.

[#5 posted by Belinda , April 18, 2008 11:07 PM]

That's amazing, I love it!

[#6 posted by ThinkPositive , April 19, 2008 12:55 AM]

It looks so much nicer than having some hooks on the wall to hang stuff on, as I had until the weight got too much and they fell out.

[#7 posted by godisafiction , April 19, 2008 1:10 AM]

"Hey look! I cut out some some shapes out of this panel!"

"Why did you do that?"

"Uh, it's art?"

"Doesn't look like very good art. Maybe you should go for 'artistic' just to be on the safe side"

"But if it isn't art what is it?"

"Well you could always hang stuff on it I suppose."

"Okay then, it's an artistic coat-rack!"

[#8 posted by Takuan , April 19, 2008 1:16 AM]

put three together with hinges. Then you have a screen room divider, an objet d'arte, a wardrobe and coathook and something ever changing - assuming you own lots of clothes. Maybe add a flat screen.

[#9 posted by HornCologne , April 19, 2008 3:17 AM]

Sadly, this would never work at our house, as in, there would be no point. These are only for people in California or other places where the lack of rain or winter means you don't really have actual coats to accessorize your fancy artistic coat racks. Three years ago, I recovered about 40 nice, old aluminum coat hooks from a trash pile outside an elementary school (slick 1960s design). I spent a good hour climbing over the pile with an electric screwdriver removing them from their frame, which was unfortunately too long to ever fit into my car. I spent more hours finding wood screws the right size to replace the machine screws they had been attached with, hours assembling new and sexy wood and aluminum coat racks, hours clearing out our entry hall, hours hanging the new coat racks, shoe storage and so on ... it looked awesome. You could have photographed our entryway for a magazine ... Since then it's been, well ... covered in coats, jackets and hats with the occasional roller skate and kite poking out from in between. The only change in scene is between the winter coats and the summer jackets ... *sigh*

Lesson learned at chez HornCologne: fancy coat racks, whether painstakingly crafted yourself or bought for their "artistic-ness" are just not worth it. Make 'em strong, make 'em sturdy, make a shelf for hats above them.

[#10 posted by Moon , April 19, 2008 9:00 AM]

You know, HornCologne, those coat hooks cost about 69 cents with screws. I admire your recycling, but geez, for less than $40, you could have purchased the whole thing and spent the 8-10 hours working at a recycling center or something.

[#11 posted by audrey , April 19, 2008 10:00 PM]

For someone in my position, the best thing *about* this is that you can just lean it against the wall.

The hardest thing in the world for a renter to find is elegant storage that doesn't require sinking massive holes in the wall. By those standards, this item makes it into the "best of" category.

It's beautiful! Utilitarian! And I can take it with me when I leave! Not for everyone, I can see; but for a certain demographic it's a revelation.

[#12 posted by gadabout , April 20, 2008 6:48 PM]

This could be particularly useful with bad art--you could cover it up.