coat-hangers

• “By about 1986 he had given up painting and was making objects out of coat-hangers, shoes, raincoats and other everyday items.”

  The Guardian: Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist

• “SIXIXIS is a group of English designers exploring the creative possibilities of bent wood in playful products ranging from chairs to coat-hangers.”

  Tom Price’s Melted Polyester Fleece Chairs | Inhabitat

• “They sliced off the muffler and used cheap piping secured by coat-hangers to create a rumbling dual-exhaust system.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hold Tight, Kids: School Bus Races Rock County Fairs

• “Man who stole 40,000 hotel coat-hangers makes mockery of his trial”

  Boing Boing

• “The activists have imprisoned themselves in a cage fashioned from coat-hangers to represent the 17 Irish women they say are forced to travel to Britain for an abortion every day.”

  Feministing: Activism Archives

• “Apartment-dwellers should not despair because it looks like Plantware has designs for free-standing pen-holders and coat-hangers.”

  Sustainable: Architecture

• “I particularly liked the scene in which they become the lingerie-fairies, with coat-hangers bearing bras, knickers and frilly slips.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Bank on London's Recession-Proof Plays

• “What do I do with all these old wire coat-hangers?”

  Saturday...

• “There may actually be some people who do not know who he is, or that he's a medical doctor, or anything else about his campaign to provide safe abortions to women who need them and the hard-fought legal battles to get us to the point where women no longer are forced to resort in desperation to coat-hangers or chugging down a 26er of Smirnoffs.”

  I'm calling it.

• “I suggest that the fierce opposition to reproductive freedom first expressed as opposition to contraception, which only became legal in Canada in 1968, and then to abortion as the latter emerged from its underground nightmare of coat-hangers, seedy exploiters, sepsis and death really comes down to a defence of the traditional role of motherhood.”

  Archive 2008-01-01

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