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Dear Dwell:

I'm sick of living like a slob. Now that I've finally got a nice place to hang my hat, I need something to hang it on. Can you recommend some off-the-hook coatracks that don't look like glorified telephone poles?

—Dean Bein, San Francisco, California

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There's no reason to get all hung up on the clutter in your entryway, especially with the glut of clever coatracks and hanging systems on the market. Here are a few options to prevent your foyer from going to rack and ruin.

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    Symbol Coatrack

    • Designed by: DESU Design
    • Price: $395-445
    In the summer, when coats are buried deep in closets and hooks are merely an unpleasant reminder of cold times ahead, the Symbol coatrack functions as a decor-ative piece. Simply flip the hooks down again when the mercury dips—impressive rack, indeed!
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    Coat Range

    • Designed by: Brave Space Design

    Coat Range can stand alone or in groups, expanding into tiny Tetons across your wall. Made from the Brave Space’s scrap wood, you can bring a natural landscape into your home while helping preserve one at the same time.

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    Ivy Coat Hook System

    • Designed by: Michael Meredith
    • Made by: MOS
    • Price: $75.00

    Call it a digitized creeper, or a functional version of Algue, Ivy appears to crawl across your wall guided by some obscure design-world algorithm. Whether it functions as a coatrack for those who hate coatracks, or a serviceable sculpture for those who hate coats, it’s a handsome addition to a bare wall.

  • wire coatrack tom dixon

    Wire Coatrack

    • Designed by: Tom Dixon
    • Price: $300.00
    As an infinitely extendable chain of hooks, Tom Dixon’s paperclip-inspired Wire coatrack provides stalwart stainless steel utility and is flexible enough to wrap around corners.
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    Ghost Tree

    • Designed by: Erich Ginder
    • Price: $1,700
    A leafless birch perched on a Saarinen base may be the spiritual symbol for austere Finnish winters, but in the flesh it feels a little flimsy. Heavy coats will likely break branches, and at this price, the bank as well.
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    Tree Hooked Coatrack

    • Designed by: Jan Habraken, Alissia Melka-Teichroew
    • Made by: BY:AMT
    • Price: $74
    Structurally streamlined, Tree Hooked is inspired by flowering branches, though we think it could also pass as a subway map. Display it in any orientation, or supplement it with additional modules for seemingly boundless customization.
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    2D3D

    • Made by: Blu Dot
    • Price: $89
    Suitable for the savviest alumni of the Transformers generation, 2D3D is a coatrack in disguise: a flat perforated sheet that you fold into a five-hooked wall-mount rack in five easy steps.
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    Victoria Butler Coatrack

    • Designed by: Peter Ash, Hlynur Atlason
    • Made by: Atlason
    The deceptive disarray of this shiny rack is anything but random. Careful composition of 19 lacquered dowels provides multiple pegs for the clothes you cast off as you stroll through the apartment door: No slicker will slip; no hoodie will fall to the floor. Should you need to shed your chapeau, Victoria Butler’s puzzle of pick-up sticks plays sturdy host to cap and coat.
People have their hangups, and we'll share ours: the most stylish coatracks.

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