The Coat Hooks.

Some research into interesting coat hooks to for inspiration when designing the cloak-room:

1) The use of hands as a means of communicating emotions and messages is widespread and instantly recognisable.

These hands grow from the wall in a series a familiar gestures portraying welcome, pleasure, farewell and indeed hostility to create wall art or somewhere for your coats to call home

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2) These Sparrow Hooks give a decorative lift to the conventional coat hook, and look equally good perched on their own!Each set features two hooks. To attach to a wall the branch insert is screwed on to a wall and the branch inserted over so no fixings are shown. The Sparrow Hook is then inserted into the branch to secure the whole thing.A great design to bring you one step closer to nature Sparrow Hooks are available in green, pink and white.

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3) Designed by Seletti, the Hamlet coat hook can be fixed to the wall to save on floor space.

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4) The 'Six Coat Stand' is made from six precision-formed segments. There are six hooks facing inwards and six more hanging points at the top of the segments, giving this coat stand a large capacity as well as a compact footprint.

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5) The Giant Paperclip would make an interesing contrast in scale.

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6) 'Rack Oh Deer Antler Coat Hooks'

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7) An assortment of coat hook/coat stands

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8) A natural, tree inspired coat hook, the giant fly could inspire the idea of changing scale.

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