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Spiros Coat Stand
NATURAL ICON
“Simplicity is the most complex achievement in the world,” Vico Magistretti once said, and Spiros makes the case without raising its voice. In 1987 for Acerbis’s Morphos collection, he took a broomstick, an object made to disappear into a closet, and asked it to stand where we live. A central wooden pole, a handful of wooden pegs turning upward in a spiral, and suddenly the daily act of hanging a coat becomes a small ritual with order and dignity. Magistretti’s gift wasn’t decoration; it was empathy for how people move through a room, what their hands reach for, what they need without wanting to think about it.
A past division of Acerbis called Morphos, researched furnishing accessories that could propose something new or recover what had been left behind, and Spiros fits that mission with unusual clarity. It reads like a tree: first imagined to lean against a wall, later given independence with a grey metal base. It began in natural or matte black lacquered oak, and when Acerbis brought it back into production in 2017, the relaunch didn’t try to “update” the idea; it simply offered it again, as if to say the point was never novelty. The form holds because it’s built from a simple observation: the best objects don’t demand attention, they earn trust.
That trust helped Spiros become widely imitated and formally recognized: an Honorable Mention at the ID Annual Design Review in New York in 1988, and a place in the permanent design collection of the Southwest Museum of Science and Technology in Dallas. But the real proof is more intimate. Decades later, it still answers the same human question: where do I put what I’m carrying so I can be fully here? In the re-edition, Spiros doesn’t return as a relic. It returns as a companion.
Solid ash wood stained open pore in black and natural bleached colors. Metal base painted micaceous grey.
Dimensions
Diameter 33cm (13”) H. 190cm (74 13/16”)
DESIGNEr
Vico Magistretti
Vico Magistretti
Spiros Coat Stand
Born in Milan in 1920, Magistretti enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico of Milan in 1939. Between 1943 and 1944 he moved to Switzerland, where he met Ernesto Nathan Rogers, a key influence on his education. He returned to Milan in 1945 where he graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico and immediately began his professional career. The 1950s were a fruitful period for Magistretti, who emerged as one of the most brilliant exponents of the “third generation”. Over the next few years he began working a lot more as a designer as well as an architect, creating furniture and objects which will always be “classics” of modern-day production.
MANUFACTURER
ACERBIS
One of the most enduring furniture companies in Italy, Acerbis stands as a connoisseur’s benchmark of Italian design — a pioneer with 150 years of expertise, whose continual search for modernity has produced creations of stunning innovation. First founded in 1870 by Benvenuto Acerbis in Bergamo’s Valle Seriana, Acerbis introduced cutting-edge industrial production and collaborations with some of Italy’s most trailblazing designers by the 1960s under Lodovico Acerbis, including Giotto Stoppino, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Vico Magistretti, Nanda Vigo and Gianfranco Frattini.
Acerbis impart a fundamental luxury experience of design for users to match the conceptual aesthetic solutions of the furnishings. Over these years of experimentation and industrialization, Acerbis forged its DNA of Italian ingenuity for a future-gazing clientele ever since. Today this mission continues with fresh vigor. With industry leader MDF Italia investing in Acerbis for a newly cemented partnership, and recently appointed creative directors Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces helming a dynamic path forward, Acerbis affirms its family-led lineage of pace-setting vision, and its universe of designs that unite function and the avant-garde.
Looking to the past to face the challenges of the future, Acerbis takes on the great changes of our era, and the need to create a more sustainable society — a future that returns to a time when objects were made to last, when we needed only a few things but things that were beautiful and high-quality, when design meant a radical break from tradition and creating innovative products with the latest technology and material developments.
Acerbis will continue to offer beauty and functionality, like that found in all the iconic products of the company, which in its 150 years of experience has created products whose modernity survives the decades and remains avant-garde even today, and for the future. Continuing this mission means maintaining Acerbis as a place of research and experimentation, of new collaborations with both emerging and celebrated designers, and of breakthrough new products that will become future icons of design.
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