Shelves for Life

These shelves are designed to last you a lifetime. The wood will colour, the surfaces will mark and stain and over the years and the furniture will become a part of you. When you die, the shelves can be taken apart and reassembled as a coffin. The brass plate under the bottom shelf, that tells the story about this transformation, is then flipped over and you’re dates inscribed on it.
William Warren

The Bookcase Coffin

It's two seven-inch-deep boxes hinged together. The shelves are adjustable. When preparing it to be used as a coffin, the shelves are laid on the bottom of the coffin.
Last Things

Shelves for Life

William Warren's Shelves For Life is a self-initiated project to further explore ideas of built-in sentimentality within our possessions. The aim is to make stronger emotional relationships with our belongings and encourage life-long use. The shelves are CNC cut in oak veneered plywood to the customers measurements. They are intended to be used throughout life as storage for personal belongings. On death, the shelves are dismantled and rebuilt as a coffin.London Metropolitan University

Coffin

Wayne of the Woods