coat hook / Adolf Loos

This coat hook is a continuation of the door handle design that Adolf Loos, a pivotal figure in the development of modernist theory, originally designed for Villa Müller, Prague in 1930. The handle displays his peculiar blend of functional and symbolic formal languages, its heavy ball-end, intended to make it easier to depress with an elbow or occupied hand, was a development of a popular central European lever-type from the end of the century. Like all izé luxury door hardware, the coat hook is available in the full range of izé materials.