According to the British designer, the bookshelves “were part of a series of designs that looked at ways we can promote sentimentality in objects. It stands up on its own pretty well but you could always make a wider base plate or screw through the backside into the wall for extra security. APO/FPO, Afghanistan, Africa, Alaska/Hawaii, Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cayman Islands, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), French Guiana, French Polynesia, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guyana, Honduras, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Macau, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niue, Oman, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Tajikistan, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, US Protectorates, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U. Hi, having surfed all sorts of eco coffins, these are amazing and with no storage worries for the next however many years I would like plans please. Designer William Warren created a set of bookshelves that will last you a lifetime: they can be reassembled as a coffin.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Better to have something you’ve made, something solid and something that has lived with you in life and has the stains and scars to prove it. I’d both like to make things easier for my loved ones when the time comes, and for myself in the meantime.

fence pickets to make it easy) We also measured our shoulder level to come up from the bottom 53" high. It's this connection to symbolic objects that inspired designer William Warren to create Shelves of Life—a wooden bookshelf that can be used both in life and in death. The wood will colour, the surfaces will mark and stain and over the years and the furniture will become a part of you. One of the concerns that comes up at Coffin Club UK is the storing of coffins,after decorating them. Warren’s designs look beyond the physicality of the furniture and into what emotional connections these household fixtures create within us.

Woodworking is your worldwide home for discussion of all things woodworking, carpentry, fine furniture, power tools, hand tools, and just about anything else about making - anything - from trees! The eco-friendly shelves were first launched during the 2005 London Design Festival at the British Library and have made waves on the internet ever since. A practical storage shelf that combines functional and attractive, suitable for any cramped nooks in your home. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A 6-Tier tall bookshelf with open shelves offers enough storage or display space for your books, photos, and other decors.

I went over the whole coffin shelf with 120 grit sandpaper to get rid of any splinter and sharp edges. The designer runs a furniture and product design consultancy in London, but also finds the time to lecture to a variety of universities around the area. This artist's sobering and achingly beautiful, goth-style work of art is hand-painted in an antique bone finish exclusively for Design Toscano. The shelf was mostly cosmetic damage (scuffs, missing paint), but there is one part 1/3 of the way up on the left side, that is slightly cracked, but it's still sturdy. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.