This set of two hangers was born from a frustration with the conventional, flimsy hangers of the artist’s wardrobe. With carved ebonized wooden shoulders and a forged steel frame, they enhance the experience of perusing one’s closet. Hunt is interested in how living with quotidian objects that feel like sculpture encourages greater care and appreciation for the possessions already in our space.

Many of us cherish particular clothing items for sentimental, aesthetic, and personal reasons, so why not use a special hanger to transcend the bland utility of “storage object”?

Mason Hunt designs furniture and household goods that embody an uncanny function and handmade-ness in protest of mass production. His artworks emphatically insist on their appeal as display objects as much as their practicality. Combining humble materials like wood, steel, clay, wax, paper, and sculpted epoxy, he prioritizes elegant connections between dissimilar materials, hoping to make objects one cannot help but want to touch.