At Milan Design Week (Salone del Mobile,) you might expect to see new designs for chairs or reimagined interior living spaces. A category that rarely receives any design attention from the most elite European design teams is the funeral urn. This year, The Last Post exhibit, a project curated by Alberto Alessi, “explores the funeral urn as a final container — an object surprisingly overlooked by the design world despite its significance.”
As one critic goes on to write, “The Last Pot reflects broader societal shifts toward death positivity — a movement seeking to normalize discussions around mortality and reclaim death as a personal, cultural and aesthetic experience.”
Perhaps these conceptual urns and the exhibit curating them together can do all that. At the very least, it offers a new visual way to honor those who have passed away and creates a potentially powerful piece of art to remember them.
