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  • Maria Tyakina redesigns traditional cremation urn to better suit modern homes

    Maria Tyakina designs cremation urns to suit the contemporary home

    Dutch designer Maria Tyakina has reimagined the traditional cremation urn as a futuristic domed vessel, in a bid to better suit the modern-day home. More

    Natashah Hitti | 19 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Aleksander Skworz' Urn for Living can be used as a fruit bowl before you die

    An Academy of Fine Arts Poznań graduate has designed a cremation urn that can be purchased before your death and used as homeware, serving as a reminder to live life to the full. More

    Lizzie Crook | 5 March 2017 | 7 comments
  • Tactile Perception urn by Lisa Merk Lund University

    Lisa Merk's tactile mini urns give mourners one-on-one time to say goodbye

    Lund University student Lisa Merk has designed a series of small urns that can be held during funeral ceremonies to reduce the anxieties of bereavement. More

    Jessica Jones | 1 March 2017 | 5 comments
  • Eight of the best coffins and urns on Dezeen

    Eight coffins and urns you would want to be seen dead in

    It's Halloween, a time when many cultures honour the dead. To mark the occasion, we take a tour through some of the most interesting final resting places dreamed up by designers, including a biodegradable urn that turns a deceased loved one into a tree and colourful zip-up coffins designed to make death less depressing. More

    Alice Morby | 31 October 2016 | 1 comment
  • The Bios Incube designed by Bios Urn in Barcelona, Spain

    Bios Incube turns ashes of cremated bodies into trees

    The developers of a biodegradable urn that turns the ashes of a dead person into a tree have designed an incubator to aid the growth process (+ slideshow). More

    Alice Morby | 12 March 2016 | 10 comments
  • Rocking urn by Wolfgang Natlacen

    Egg-shaped urns for cremated ashes rock back and forth without falling over

    Wolfgang Natlacen's ovoid funerary urns can rock like a Weeble toy to offer an alternative to the "grey and sad conformism of death" (+ movie). More

    Emma Tucker | 10 November 2015 | 2 comments
  • Sam Jacob Soane Museum pieces exhibition

    Sam Jacob Studio creates Lenin's Urn for Soane Museum's "pieces" exhibition

    London Design Festival 2015: the studio run by Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob has designed an urn for Lenin, based on a finial found outside the London house the Russian revolutionary lived in for a short period in 1908. More

    Emma Tucker | 19 September 2015 | Leave a comment
  • 21 Grams by Mark Sturkenboom

    21 Grams is a sex toy that contains the ashes of a dead partner

    Milan 2015: Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom has created a "memory box" containing a dildo with a compartment for storing the ashes of a deceased partner. More

    Anna Winston | 26 April 2015 | 41 comments
  • Earn/Urn by Neil Conley at New Designers

    Earn/Urn by Neil Conley

    Design graduate Neil Conley has made a series of funerary urns from reclaimed carbon fibre. More

    Rose Etherington | 19 July 2010 | 5 comments
  • Age of the World by Mathieu Lehanneur

    The Age of the World by Parisian designer Mathieu Lehanneur is a set of jars and urns that each map the ages of the population in a given country. More

    Zaynab D. Ziari | 22 July 2009 | 23 comments

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