Studio BBPR Coat Racks and Stands

Studio BBPR 'Melpomene' model steel coat hanger. Prod. Artemide, 1970 ca. 181 x 40 x 40 cm. Good conditions.

A Space Age design with the coat hanger by Studio BBPR. Graduates of the Milan Polytechnic, the four designers in their early work followed the themes of Italian Rationalism of the 1930s, although they were not an integral part of the main 'Group 7' Movement and MIAR, they collaborated on some projects with Figini and Pollini; these compositional canons can be clearly read in an exemplary building such as the colonia elioterapica in Legnano (1938), where they also realised popular housing units, the so-called Le Grazie working-class neighbourhood (1940-1942). They distinguished themselves for various town-planning schemes, the Pavia Master Plan (1932), the Tourism Plan for the Island of Elba (1939), and above all for the most important and far-reaching, the Valle d'Aosta Master Plan (1936-1937). During this period they took an active part in the controversy that arose between rationalists and traditionalists and at first, like others, felt they could support the clash for freedom of expression and the triumph of modern architecture within fascism, but after the introduction of the racial laws of 1938 that also affected one of their collaborators, the BBPR architects...

Set of two "Erato" coat racks by Lodovico Barbariano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto N. Rogers for Artemide. Beautiful details on both top and bottom.

A Space Age design with the coat hanger by Studio BBPR. Graduates of the Milan Polytechnic, the four designers in their early work followed the themes of Italian Rationalism of the 1...

"Erato" di Lodovico Barbariano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto N. Rogers per Artemide. Bellissimi dettagli sia sulla parte superiore che su quella inferiore..

Nickel-plated metal and brass with burnished finishing; visible oxidation patina. Wear consistent with age and use.

Italian modern round metal floor coat rack Melpomene by BBPR for Artemide, 1970s Floor coat hanger mod. Melpomene with a round base. The structure is in metal with a dark silver fini...