Sciangai Folding Coat Rack
Designed in 1973 by the Milan-based collective De Pas, D'Urbino, and Lomazzi, the Sciangai coat rack belongs to a generation of Italian design that treated everyday objects as opportunities for invention. Its name and logic both derive from Shanghai, the Chinese game of wooden sticks, where balance and overlap govern everything. That same principle drives the form here: ash rods cross, hinge, and fan outward through a central steel grommet, turning the act of hanging a coat into something worth watching.
When folded flat, it is nearly nothing. When open, it holds its ground with a quiet structural authority. The varnished ash frame is available in natural, grey, talc, black, and amaranth finishes, each shifting the object's presence in a room without altering its essential character. At home in an entryway, a bedroom corner, or a hospitality interior, the Sciangai has earned its place in design history not through spectacle, but through the precision of its idea.
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Sciangai Folding Coat Rack
Designed in 1973 by the Milan-based collective De Pas, D'Urbino, and Lomazzi, the Sciangai coat rack belongs to a generation of Italian design that treated everyday objects as opportunities for invention. Its name and logic both derive from Shanghai, the Chinese game of wooden sticks, where balance and overlap govern everything. That same principle drives the form here: ash rods cross, hinge, and fan outward through a central steel grommet, turning the act of hanging a coat into something worth watching.
When folded flat, it is nearly nothing. When open, it holds its ground with a quiet structural authority. The varnished ash frame is available in natural, grey, talc, black, and amaranth finishes, each shifting the object's presence in a room without altering its essential character. At home in an entryway, a bedroom corner, or a hospitality interior, the Sciangai has earned its place in design history not through spectacle, but through the precision of its idea.
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Designed in 1973 by the Milan-based collective De Pas, D'Urbino, and Lomazzi, the Sciangai coat rack belongs to a generation of Italian design that treated everyday objects as opportunities for invention. Its name and logic both derive from Shanghai, the Chinese game of wooden sticks, where balance and overlap govern everything. That same principle drives the form here: ash rods cross, hinge, and fan outward through a central steel grommet, turning the act of hanging a coat into something worth watching.
When folded flat, it is nearly nothing. When open, it holds its ground with a quiet structural authority. The varnished ash frame is available in natural, grey, talc, black, and amaranth finishes, each shifting the object's presence in a room without altering its essential character. At home in an entryway, a bedroom corner, or a hospitality interior, the Sciangai has earned its place in design history not through spectacle, but through the precision of its idea.
