I think it’s usual to see in the industry of coat racks, there’s one clear winner: coat racks. Now, don’t think I’m not giving enough credit to the standing coat rack, for all its merit. It’s a tried and tested procedure of coat hanging, enabling both the effective purpose of safeguarding your cost and keeping it off the ground. And Fred Astaire demonstrated he’s pretty light on his feet too. But the wall coat rack is a step ahead of even Fred Astaire in technological sensation: it defeats gravity!
What a better way to show the cleverness of man than a small piece of plastic, porcelain, or wrought iron that merely protrudes from the wall, allowing you to place a hat or a coat in suspended free-fall? They say Newton’s apple was a defining moment in man’s history, but I say better than the dropping of the apple itself is knowing how to catch it! And how refined we’ve made the cost hanger in our limited existence: What once was a pole in a corner now has more variations than ever. They can stand, hang, be installed in closets or in bureaus, or they can be placards, gripping mirrors, pictures, or even serve as a mantle for your trinkets. What once could be collected with the mere handful of tenons and mortises has now emerged into a piece of art, with choices and styles to satisfy any hunger.
So how do you opt which is best, or better yet, how can I declare the wall coat rack the clear winner, if it’s nothing but a battle of preference? While I banter that the wall coat rack’s ability to defy gravity is its strength, it’ true that this quality vastly increases its uses. Rather than requiring a base on which to put legs, these racks can be fixed into walls and later fix to them your most personal attire. It doesn’t take up floor space, making it even simpler to fit it into the foyer of a house, where a standing rack might bring about traffic jams.
But even better is the reality that this rack alone displays the agility of the whole coat rack form. Sure, you could fixpictures or a mirror in a standing coat rack, but then if you start putting coats on it, the pictures would be obscured. Or worse, you’d have to put the picture on top, and then you’ll have to start bearing in mind not only floor space but ceiling height for your cherished coat rack. A wall mounted coat rack doesn’t have this trouble. It has no base or pole, so the coats hung on it won’t be obscuring any art that may be part of the rack. But also, it’s keenly adapted by its very design to embrace art. By being wall-mounted, it comes with a characteristic required of any wall-mounted picture, painting, or mirror. And because the coats fall downward, a rack can be affixed to or below any existing art piece without obscuring it.
Mastervision’s etched mirror wall coat rack is the chief of the coat rack’s artistic form, a rack that not only hangs coats, but above the coats includes a laser etched image on a mirror. There are dozens of etched designs available, or if you feel like flexing your own creative wings, you can use your own custom glass etching. So sure, you could just use any old standing coat hanger, but what’s going to occur the next time someone asks “How do you defy gravity?”



