Wooden clothes rack, C&A Nijmegen, 1929
Clothes rack
Details
- Title: Wooden clothes rack, C&A Nijmegen, 1929
- Object Type: Stand
- Dating Period: 1920s
- Material: Metall, Wood
- Height, width, depth: 184.0 cm, 200.0 cm, 77.0 cm
- Acquisition Date: 2015
- Inventory number: 138310
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Description
This tall wooden clothes rack was probably used to display coats in the Dutch C&A department store in Nijmegen. It stands on castors and is accessible from both sides; and the metal rods for hanging can be pulled out on the left. A metal plate dates the object to 1929. This clothes rack is one of the oldest items of furniture in our collection that originates from the early C&A department stores.
One of the last pages of Hermann Kohlmann’s 1932 publication about the architect Sepp Kaiser, who worked as C&A’s “house architect” from 1916, advertises pure metal racks. These lighter, more flexible, and presumably more cost-effective means of presentation went on to gradually conquer the salesroom, which can be clearly seen in the numerous interior photographs of C&A stores.