French Coat Rack by Mathieu Matégot for Artimeta, 1950s

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This coat rack was designed by Mathieu Matégot and manufactured by Artimeta in the Netherland in the 1950s. It's made … more This coat rack was designed by Mathieu Matégot and manufactured by Artimeta in the Netherland in the 1950s. It's made of perforated, lacquered metal.

Mathieu Mategot (1910-2001) was a Hungarian and French designer and material artist. He was one of the most renowned French designers of the 1950s. Born and educated in Budapest, he moved to France in the early 1930s, where he worked as a window dresser and women’s clothing designer. He learned metalworking techniques as a prisoner of war in the 1940s and upon his release began designing furniture, pioneering many of what we now identify as Mid-Century design tropes, like metal-mounted rattan, steel tubing, and perforated sheet metal. By the 1970s, Mategot returned to producing tapestries. less