Tabletop planter and lamp from Japan double as emergency earthquake helmets

Unless you happen to be an archeologist, contractor or erstwhile member of the Village People, there’s a good chance that you don’t have a hard hat just lying around the house within easy reach.

Leading Japanese safety helmet purveyor Tanizawa wants to change that.

As a helmet maker, we were faced with a difficult reality. We know that helmets are bulky and can get in the way. Give helmets a new role to play in daily life, and make it something you want to keep around you.

So how, pray tell, has Tanizawa transformed potentially life-saving earthquake safety helmets into everyday objects, not something to be stored away, out of sight and largely out of reach?

They’ve turned them into rather tasteful tabletop planters and lamps.

A decidedly more palatable manner of tremor-izing ordinary household furnishings than, let’s say, this bed, Tanizawa’s two-piece +MET Project collection of safety helmet home accessories wouldn’t look too out of place on the shelves of IKEA. Simply called Pot and Lamp, the multi-tasking helmets are simple, functional, inoffensive. Not the most style-forward things on the planet, particularly the mushroom-style lamp, but that’s not really the point.

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Last Edited by gmigriff on 05/12/2016 08:58 PM