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Memento Coffee Table Casket
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Designed by Charles Constantine, Memento is a wooden coffee table that can store books, magazines and other personal mementos during your lifetime. The design twist is that it also awaits your death to store YOU. As a bonus, an open casket is easily arranged with the conveniently removable top pieces.

While I appreciate the idea and do not mind acknowledging death and mortality, I am not sure about having to stare at my own casket each and every day!

According to Inhabitat, “Made from an intentional choice of materials, this “pine box” puts design in context of the user at different stages of life, and death. In life, Memento serves the user as a functional piece of furniture that stores the material possessions we choose to collect. When the inevitable occurs, this coffee table takes on a second life as a non-toxic burial vessel. In a fairly simple form, Memento challenges cultural norms in regard to death, and how we deal with it. As a part of our intimate surroundings, the design absorbs life through use. The passage of time wears into the piece in the inevitable scratches and marks gained in its first life as a living room accessory. It also creates a presence of death, or at least a reminder that an end is necessary and unavoidable.”

You know what would go well with your Coffee Table Casket? A set of coffin couches would keep the morbid theme going nicely.

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