WALK into the exhibition entitled Safe: Design takes on risk at the renovated Museum of Modern Art in New York and you enter a bizarre Orwellian future in which people wear pod-like suits and carry pod-like portable bomb shelters. On display are objects ranging from the ordinary to the extraordinary: from coffee cup insulator sleeves to Martino d’Esposito’s Swiss Fondue Earthquake Safety Table, which hides an entire survival kit beneath a structurally reinforced yet stylish table top.
The exhibits share a double purpose: an ability to protect the human body from every imaginable harm, combined with designs that please our…
