The recipients of the Dutch Design Awards 2009 were announced on Saturday. Wieke Somers was awarded the Golden Eye—the award for the best of the best—on account of her Merry-go-round coat rack, installed in 2008 for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.

The coat rack is a circular system of counterweighted pulleys that raise and lower a series of rope hangers, where visitors hang their coats and other belongings. A hybrid between a cloakroom and a personal storage locker unit, each visitor accesses their pulley with a numbered key, creating a canopy of coats overhead and a visual character that changes with the seasons.

Other DDA winners include: Jelte van Abbema, recipient of the Rado Young Designer Award; the Flying Grass Carpet, winner of the Audi Design award; and Demakersvan, winner of the Toonvan Tuijl Prize.