Each rack begins as a branching teak trunk, chosen for the way its limbs fan out at hanging height. It spends twenty days in the kiln — heat that ends the wood's moving and destroys any insect in it — then the designer balances the stance so it plants firmly, and the artisan trims each branch end, sands the trunk by hand, and works oil deep into the grain.
You cannot drill the walls of a rental you will leave in a year, and a wobbling metal stand tips when a winter coat lands on it. This one is freestanding solid teak, weighted to hold a loaded stance and light enough to carry to the next place. Even buried under wool it keeps its shape as a tree — the one honest thing in a beige entry that the lease did not choose.