Dutch Design Week 2025

To Come and To Go — A Ritual of Arrival & Departure

“Arriving is a ritual: coat racks mark moments of return and departure in our daily lives.”
This statement sets the tone for To Come and to Go, an exhibition during Dutch Design Week (DDW) that invites us to reconsider everyday objects and the subtle rituals we perform around them.

What is To Come and to Go?

Located at Design Daily’s Gallery, this show is free to access. Curated by Dick de Bruijn, the exhibition celebrates the coat rack and the coat hanger. Not just as a utilitarian object, but as a marker of transitions, arrivals, departures, and the in-between.

Rather than focusing only on function, To Come and to Go asks: how can these everyday objects express meaning, memory, and emotion? The project brings together both new and established Dutch designers (Richard Hutten, Arnout Visser, Jeroen Wand, Daphna Laurens, and more) to reinterpret what a coat rack can be—ranging from simple hooks to poetic wall installations.

Every item in the exhibition is created exclusively for this project, ensuring that what you see is unique to DDW.

Why a Coat Rack?

At first glance, a coat rack seems trivial. But To Come and to Go amplifies its cultural weight. It’s at the threshold of our homes, where we cross between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’, between solitude and company. The ritual of hanging—or retrieving—our coat is laden with meaning, however subtle. This exhibition celebrates that subtle moment.

Designers were challenged not merely to design for storage, but to design with symbolism in mind. The coat rack becomes a physical meditation on coming and going.

All coatracks from this exposition are available for sale in our webshop! They can be found under our new brand: Suspenz.

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