Eames Hang It All

Hang It All coat rack by Charles and Ray Eames
Classic icon of mid century modern design by Herman Miller
Click above Hang It All image to enlarge


Hang It All coat rack by Charles and Ray Eames
Classic icon of mid century modern design by Herman Miller
Click above Hang It All image to enlarge


Hang It All coat rack by Charles and Ray Eames
Classic icon of mid century modern design by Herman Miller
Click above Hang It All image to enlarge


Hang It All coat rack by Charles and Ray Eames
Classic icon of mid century modern design by Herman Miller
Click above Hang It All image to enlarge

The design story behind the Hang It All coat rack by Charles and Ray Eames:

Ray Eames designed a variety of whimsical toys and furniture pieces specifically for children, including this 1953 piece for Tigrett Enterprises Playhouse Division. Why children's products? For purely personal reasons: Charles and Ray wanted to give them to their own grandchildren and to the children of friends.

The Eames Hang-It-All--along with molded plywood animals, small-scale chairs and tables, elaborate cardboard-and-paper masks, and brightly colored building blocks--were all given the same careful design consideration as the couple's furniture designs. To achieve the Hang-It-All's spidery base, the Eameses used the mass-production techniques for welding wires that they developed for their wire-base tables and wire chairs.

Charles and Ray Eames brought a sense of play to all their work, including the Hang-It-All. It took the everyday coat rack to a new place that was inventive and fun. More than just a conversation piece, the Hang-It-All holds anything that slips over its colorful hooks.

The Hang It All rack was designed by Eames in 1953 and is produced by Herman Miller. Charles and Ray Eames brought a sense of play to all their work, including the Hang-It-All which is a modern coat rack. The Eames Hang It All took the everyday coat rack to a new place that was inventive, eye-catching and fun. More than just a conversation piece, the Hang-It-All holds anything that slips over its colorful hooks. The solid maple balls are painted in nine bright colors. The frame is made from white powder-coated welded steel. This is a very practical rack. This modern rack holds hats, umbrellas, robes, jackets, scarves, skates, backpacks, and more. Colorful hooks. The solid maple balls are painted in nine colors.


The Hang It All has a strong structure:

Welded steel. The wire frame attaches directly to walls or other surfaces.

White powder-coat finish. For durability under daily use.

Hardware package. For secure mounting, drywall anchors and screws are included.

About Charles and Ray Eames:

A chair that looked like a potato chip. Another that resembled a "well-used first baseman's mitt." A folding screen that rippled...

With a grand sense of adventure, Charles and Ray Eames turned their curiosity and boundless enthusiasm into creations that established them as a truly great husband-and-wife design team. Their unique synergy led to a whole new look in furniture. Lean and modern. Playful and functional. Sleek, sophisticated, and beautifully simple. That was and is the "Eames look."

That look and their relationship with Herman Miller started with molded plywood chairs in the late 1940s and includes the world-renowned Eames lounge chair, now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Charles and Ray achieved their monumental success by approaching each project the same way: Does it interest and intrigue us? Can we make it better? Will we have "serious fun" doing it?

They loved their work, which was a combination of art and science, design and architecture, process and product, style and function. "The details are not details," said Charles. "They make the product."


Several Hang It All coat racks combined....don't stop till you get enough!

A problem-solver who encouraged experimentation among his staff, Charles once said his dream was "to have people working on useless projects. These have the germ of new concepts."

Their own concepts evolved over time, not overnight. As Charles noted about the development of the Molded Plywood Chairs, "Yes, it was a flash of inspiration," he said, "a kind of 30-year flash."

With these two, one thing always seemed to lead to another. Their revolutionary work in molded plywood led to their breakthrough work in molded fiberglass seating. A magazine contest led to their highly innovative "Case Study" house. Their love of photography led to film making, including a huge seven-screen presentation at the Moscow World's Fair in 1959, in a dome designed by their friend and colleague, Buckminster Fuller.

Graphic design led to showroom design, toy collecting to toy inventing. And a wooden plank contraption, rigged up by their friend, director Billy Wilder for taking naps, led to their acclaimed chaise design.

A design critic once said that this extraordinary couple "just wanted to make the world a better place." That they did. They also made it a lot more interesting.



Hang It All coat rack by Charles and Ray Eames
Classic icon of mid century modern design by Herman Miller
Click above Hang It All image to enlarge

Charles and Ray Eames were one of the leading groundbreaking designers of mid century modern design in the 20th century. Their most well-known work may very well be the iconic Hang-it-All coat rack which brings joys to millions of modern homes all over the world! It will bring a touch of feel-good color to your home or office which is the perfect way to start- and end a happy day!

Hang It All coat rack by Charles and Ray Eames
Classic icon of mid century modern design by Herman Miller