Coffin Couches: Green and creepy

| Posted Apr 29th 2008 6:11PM by Whit Honea
Filed under: Haute Home, Designers, Do Good, Sustainable Style

Have you ever seen a piece of furniture that you were just dying to have? Be careful what you ask for. Coffin Couches make sofas from actual recycled caskets. We're not sure how to tie that together, but it felt right.

Coffin Couches is the ultimate in green furniture design. The couches are made from coffins that they acquired from funeral homes. Apparently, due to health and safety issues, it is illegal for the general public to purchase used coffins, so the company was able to approach the funeral directors with the mindset of recycling.


The coffins in question were obviously not used for burial due to minor flaws in detail, however, they were used for display purposes. Says the website: "They are reconfigured and modified resulting in a finished product - a unique one a kind coffin couch. If you notice (although it may be too small) the six cast iron heavy duty legs are embossed with the universal biohazard insignia. The reason we utilized this sign was because safety was our utmost concern. If you are not aware, once a human body is placed in a coffin it is considered biohazard tissue. The legs have the embossed insignia for precautionary reasons in the event body fluids are exchanged on these coffins."

Body fluids? There are many jokes we could make regarding body fluids being exchanged on a couch, but to be honest, the whole coffin thing makes our stomach a little bit queasy.

The couches look very cool, that is not the question. The question is whether or not we'd be able to sit on one without freaking out. One thing is for sure, we'd never be able to take a nap on one. That's just asking for it.

[via Complex]

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