Maltese designers Anthony Bonnici, Tanid Raif, and Thomas Mifsud work in collaboration with local stone supplier Halmann Vella on the Urna project. As a part of the London Design Biennale, the Malta Pavilion is this captivating, expandable spherical urn.

It is designed to enshrine the ashes of multiple people at once, presenting a monolithic structure that conceptualizes holding the ashes of an entire family, rather than just one person. Bonnici speaks about the project, “Urna is not a static monument. It’s something that grows over time, like the strata of the Maltese landscape. It’s also a provocation to remove ego. To not have this little photo and shitty little tombstone, and to be part of something a lot bigger.”

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