Article: Great designs for the grateful dead.(Home and Garden)

Designing for the dead, or at least the containers that will carry their remains, is untouched by any innovation. When we imagine a picture of a casket or a tomb, it always needs to be accomplished in some expensive materials, with classical flourishes and a physical heaviness meant perhaps to convey the importance of the deceased. This sense opulence is largely unchallenged since we feel compelled to give it all for our departed loved ones. But with the available technology and the enthusiasm of our forward-thinking designers to recontextualize objects, meaning in the light of the planet’s dwindling resources and the commonsensical nature of modernism, there’s ...

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