Sciangai Coat Stand
De Pas, D’Urbino & Lomazzi
Production Zanotta
Product Details
Coat stand designed by De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi for Zanotta, 1973.
Sciangai is made from eight solid wood slats, joined at the centre, which open out like a fan to create a stable, free-standing structure. Simple, intuitive and instantly recognisable, it was awarded the Compasso d’Oro in 1979 and has become one of the icons of twentieth-century design. Today, the coat stand is produced in stained ash in five colour variants, while the version presented here, in natural beech, is no longer in production.
Design: 1973
Dimensions: Ø 65 × H 145 cm (open), Ø 11 × H 160 cm (closed)
De Pas D’Urbino & Lomazzi
De Pas, D’Urbino & Lomazzi is an architecture and design studio founded in Milan in 1966 by Jonathan De Pas (1932–1991), Donato D’Urbino (1935), and Paolo Lomazzi (1936). Active across architecture, product design, and theoretical experimentation, the group emerged within the radical research climate of the 1960s and 1970s. Their work challenges the boundaries between function, language, and behavior, using objects as critical and narrative tools. De Pas, D’Urbino, and Lomazzi conceived design as an open practice, capable of reflecting on social and cultural changes and anticipating new ways of inhabiting and interacting with space.
