Towels pile up wherever people come in wet, and a good hook at that spot keeps them off the floor. The Mermaid towel hook right is a cast mermaid in a calm, seated pose with a textured finish, and it’s the right-hand half of a pair. Buy it alone for a powder room, or with its left-hand mate to flank a mirror, a doorway or an outdoor shower.

What the Mermaid towel hook right is cast from

The figure is cast in recycled aluminum. Aluminum doesn’t rust, which is the whole point for a hook that will spend its life damp. There’s no steel core to bleed orange down a white wall. The surface is an all-weather protective coating, and it’s warrantied for five years. A soft cloth handles cleaning; leave the scouring pads in the drawer.

Bronze Verdigris or French Bronze

Two finishes are offered. Bronze Verdigris shows green and blue in the low spots of the casting, the way old harbor bronze does, and it reads well against white tile or weathered shingles. French Bronze is darker and smoother, closer to a traditional statue, and it suits dark fixtures and natural wood. If you’re buying both hooks, pick the same finish for the Mermaid towel hook right and its mate so the pair matches.

Where it goes

The Mermaid towel hook right is at home anywhere a towel or robe needs a hook: a beach-house bath, the wall by the hot tub, the changing nook at the pool, or a mudroom at a lake place. Because the texture shows best up close, hang it where people stand rather than high on a wall.

This one is made in the USA too. The matching left-hand mermaid and a personalized mermaid rack with several hooks are among the hooks and hangers. If the coastal theme carries into the yard, the Garden Collection has pieces cast the same way.