Museum of Modern Art: Knives, Defence & Survival

[Scott Free]

Since this has actual knife content along with general interest, I thought I'd post it here.

Today I was looking at my mother-in-law's Museum of Modern Art mail order catalog. I was surprised to find a Victorinox Champion Plus, along with learning that the original Champion is part of MOMA's permanent collection. Then I saw the Final Home Jacket, an interesting survival jacket. The most surprising offering, though, was the Subtle Safety Defensive Ring. I'm not sure if it's a practical defensive item or not, but it really surprised me that MOMA would include such a politically incorrect item in their catalog.

 

[Shmackey]

Real art--especially modern art--is never politically correct.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Here it is. They have an entire Architecture and Design exhibition: SAFE: Design Takes on Risk

A companion to the Museum's SAFE exhibition (10/16/05 - 1/2/06), this book documents the innovative objects that designers have created to answer people's needs for physical and psychological safety.

 

[Laceration]

Pretty cool. I'll have to check that out when it opens. Thanks for pointing this exhibit out!

 

[godot]

This is a really cool discovery. They also have one Randall and at least one target pistol as part of their design collection.

 

[Paul Davidson]

I wonder why the jacket is "one size fits all" which means "does not fit Paul." The neck is 11.75" which is about 6 inches too small for me.

I really like that ring though.

 

[Scott Free]

I really like that ring though.

If you do a google search for "subtle safety defensive ring" you'll find lots of places that sell it, and in more sizes than are available from MOMA.

 

[Paul Davidson]

Thanks Scott. I'll have to look around. The price of gas has cut into my discretionary funds so it might be a while though. :grumpy:

 

[Boink]

Way before I got into knives big time, I bought an Opinel and red handled Balisong at the MOMA gift shop. This was around 1987 or so.