HOMEMADE FATHER’S DAY KEY HANGER RACK

THE NETHERLANDS - 1960s EA/NL/0005
https://europearchive.eu/country-index/netherlands

‘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…

HOMEMADE FATHER’S DAY KEY HANGER RACK

THE NETHERLANDS - 1960s EA/NL/0005
https://europearchive.eu/country-index/netherlands

‘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…