Corner Coat Rack, Wall Mounted Black Metal Frame with a Hanging Rail

A black metal frame that tucks into the corner where two walls meet, with a single bar running across the front of it to hang a coat on. It uses the one stretch of wall in the room that nothing else wants.

No clear run of wall needed. No row of hooks. No stand in the way by the door.

The corner is the piece of wall nothing else can use

Everything you might put on a wall needs a flat run, and a hallway rarely has one to spare. The wall by the front door is already taken by a door swing, a radiator, a light switch or the bottom of the stairs, and whatever is left has to be wide enough for a rack plus the width of a coat either side of it. So the coats end up over the newel post, or on the back of a dining chair.

The corner is the one place still empty, in almost every house, because nothing is made to go there. This reaches out along both walls and closes across the front, so it takes a piece of the room you were never using and none of the piece you were.

A bar, not a row of hooks

Almost every coat rack sold is a row of hooks, and a hook holds a coat by the small ribbon loop stitched inside the collar. That loop is the weakest seam on the garment, it takes the whole weight of a wet winter coat, and it pulls the shoulders up into a point while it does it. Leave a wool coat there for a season and it keeps that shape.

The bar across this one is a rail. A hanger goes over it exactly as it would on a wardrobe rail, so the coat hangs from its own shoulders and comes off the way it went on. Scarves fold over the bar. A towel goes over it lengthways. A bag hangs off one end, out of the doorway.

The middle of the bar hangs in open air

The bar cuts straight across the corner rather than following it round, so its ends sit near the walls and its middle stands well clear of both. That gap is the difference between a coat that dries and a coat that does not. A sleeve on a hook lies flat against cold plaster and is still damp on that side by the evening, and a thick coat on a shallow rack simply will not close the front door.

The ring is for the thing that always slides off

A scarf folded over a bar slides off the bar. A small ring hangs from a hook over the crossbar, and you pull the scarf through that instead, so it stays where you put it. It slides along the bar when you want it somewhere else and lifts off when you want the whole rail back.

The frame is one continuous piece of metal, bent rather than bolted, and every change of direction is a soft curve instead of a welded corner. It goes in the corner you have been walking past for years, and it takes the coat that has been living on the chair.

Specifications

Dimensions: 15.7 in high, spanning 19.7 in across the corner (40 x 50 cm)

Material: Metal frame

Color: Black frame with a warm copper-toned crossbar

Mounting: Wall-mounted, in an internal corner where two walls meet at a right angle

Will not fit: A flat wall. The frame spans two walls and needs the corner between them

Frame: One continuous bent tube, forming a triangle above the bar on one wall and a triangle below it on the other, with rounded bends throughout

Crossbar: A single straight bar running the full width of the rack, its ends near the walls and its middle standing clear of the corner

Scarf ring: A small ring on a hook that sits over the crossbar, for pulling a scarf through

Suits: Coats, jackets, scarves, towels and bags, on hangers or folded over the bar

Rooms: Entryway, hallway, bedroom, living room

Package Includes

1x Corner Coat Rack

1x Scarf Ring with Hook