It's being called coffin chic. In these days of downsizings and wallet crimpings, some folks with an eye on the bottom line are joining a hot (or perhaps cold) new trend: buying coffins and using them ...

A Victorian industry that dealt with the dead is getting a new lease of life as Newman Brothers Coffin Works gets transformed into a unique and unusual visitor centre. Birmingham’s famous Newman ...

In certain cultures, it’s customary for the dead to be buried with their possessions. For a change, how about being buried in your possessions instead? That’s the twist that William Warren put on his ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For the past two years, a Los Angeles company has been producing a range of sofas with buttoned cushions, studded ...

It is a kind of coffin-shaped furniture, and it is variously punitive furniture. Everything such as shelves and tables is in the shape of a coffin. It looks like a vampire house somehow. Details are ...

Dusty and Bryan Schoening have been together for 25 years. They live in Pahrump, where Bryan makes and sells handmade custom coffins and coffin-shaped furniture and smaller items. Dusty collects ...

The Coffin Works were constructed in 1892 to the design of Richard Harley for Newman Brothers who were brass founders and manufactured metal coffin fittings in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter in the ...

Mark J. Zeabin has lived the aphorism that every cloud has a silver lining. "A lot of things in my life happened through tragedy," explains the 25-year-old Canadian entrepreneur. During his third year ...

Roger Terry and his wife, Grace, have little interest in quilting, fishing or book clubs. Instead, they meet with other retired friends each Tuesday at a disused sports center to build coffins, a ...