‘Long live Father’ reads this handmade key rack, most likely created at school as a Father’s Day gift. Its aesthetic is unmistakably one of a concentrated and caring child, even complete with a portrait of the man himself. Dad looks wisely into the distance over five hooks for five family members of which he is the head. So how could such a loving creation become a flea-market find? If we assume the object comes from the 1960s, it’s a fair and hopeful guess that at least some members of our unknown family are still with us…
‘Long live Father’ reads this handmade key rack, most likely created at school as a Father’s Day gift. Its aesthetic is unmistakably one of a concentrated and caring child, even complete with a portrait of the man himself. Dad looks wisely into the distance over five hooks for five family members of which he is the head. So how could such a loving creation become a flea-market find? If we assume the object comes from the 1960s, it’s a fair and hopeful guess that at least some members of our unknown family are still with us…