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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...