Every hook on this rack is made in two parts, the tall one on top for a hat and the curled one below for a coat, from the days when no one left the house without both. Found in Lyon, it is a vintage French coat rack, three cast hooks with a soft green patina fixed along a board whose ends curl into little scrolls. Racks like this lined the halls of French cafés, schools, and railway stations, where a row of hooks by the door was the first thing anyone reached for on the way in. Sylvie hangs it by her front door, a straw hat on the top hook and a winter coat on the one below.
