Hasta La Ideas

12/28/2011 – Updated to reflect clarification from designer Max Arlestig.

We were only half-joking when we suggested that Poler Stuff’s “Napsack” might be well-suited to Occupiers looking to hunker down for the winter. The international sociopolitical phenomenon recently crossed the three-month mark, and while the movement hasn’t made headlines lately, at least a couple of designers have drawn on Occupy for inspiration.

Max Arstig and Maximilian Gebhardt (a.k.a. Max and Max) are pleased to present “a design reflecting important and historically revolutionary things that are happening around us.” “In Case of Riot” is a coffee table that the Maxes have designed in “response to recent troubles in the world,” featuring a genuine riot shield atop a “welded square steel pipe frame base.”

Thus, the frame of the table might be seen as a sort of emergency shield rack, while the repurposed aegis takes on a new meaning as it occupies “a place where it could have a daily and normal use.”

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