Coat racks - unique design by M&G Interiors. The entryway to your home is a first impression, a welcome, a foretaste of home all in one, a subtle yet substantial statement. Well acknowledged in former time this specific room fulfilled social functions in castles and middle-class houses, being the meeting room for guests and family, a room in which visitors were received, waiting for their appointment.
In recent history, the entry room was more and more degraded to a crossover between entrance and living area and today it is mostly ignored in current planning and architecture. Emphasis is put on functionality instead of allowing fashionable furniture - reduction of space in favour of living room, of course frequently accompanied with limitations in design.
An entryway should be inviting, moreover enhancing the character of your house. Walking through the entryway means crossing from public to private space. Many of daily activities take place in this room, addressing one’s welcome or leave-taking. Woman and man change street clothes to house shoes. Cloaks and purses need to be tucked away. Bunch of keys and mobile are placed in their usual place.
Activities, that usually happen automatically, ideally immediate, reliably and without requiring one’s specific reflection - demanding lot of energy if not taking place perfectly organized and structured. But space has become a scarce good, expansive luxury, resulting in less attractive design. Today’s entry rooms are difficult to fill with furniture. Coat-racks are frequently well hidden - reduced, invisibly, fulfilling their function; pieces being reduced to a space for keeping clothes and accessories.
M&G decided to deal with this difficult issue of furnishing entryrooms and coat-rack design. Obvious, respectable, visible anyway - coat-racks shown by M&G Interiors at PureAustrianDesign, LandingLondon, 21 – 24 September 2006.
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