This clothes rack in the hall closet pulls out thanks to a mechanism May used in his store. Wright was such a tyrant when it came to alterations of his design, but as this is an original fixture it looks like the architect made a concession to May's display techniques. It pulls quite far out, a necessity as the closets are very deep and May himself was a rather diminutive 5'4".  Search “architect lost his sight and kept working thanks breakthrough technologies blind” from Michigan: Day 2

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This clothes rack in the hall closet pulls out thanks to a mechanism May used in his store. Wright was such a tyrant when it came to alterations of his design, but as this is an original fixture it looks like the architect made a concession to May's display techniques. It pulls quite far out, a necessity as the closets are very deep and May himself was a rather diminutive 5'4".