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