Beach Urns

This collection is for the person who always found their way back to the water. They may have been the one who booked the same week every year, the one who lived close enough to the water to walk it most mornings and did, or perhaps they were the one who finally retired to the coast after a lifetime of waiting for that very moment.

A week at the coast is built on small, fixed rituals. It is the same stretch of shore, the chairs set in the same arrangement, and the walks taken at the same hour. For many families, these trips represent the longest uninterrupted time they spend together, which is why so many of the photographs on the wall were taken within a hundred yards of each other. For those who live near the water, the coast is not an event but a habit, walked early and often alone even in the off-season. The water itself is older than the people looking at it, performing the same steady motions every day, regardless of who is watching.

These urns are cast aluminum. The artwork is engraved into the metal, offering three designs: a tropical beach, a pair of flip flops, or a crab. Each piece is finished in a range of colors, with some featuring a hand-applied enamel and hand-detailed silver bands. Just as they found their own rhythm in the salt air, these pieces are made to hold that memory through a threaded screw-top lid and a steady felt base.

The collection includes full-size, sharing, and keepsake urns. This allows a family to choose one piece or several, ensuring that the connection to that specific stretch of coast remains accessible to everyone.

To further honor their specific journey, we can engrave a name and dates directly into the surface. This two-tone engraving is cut into the metal, so the name and dates become part of the piece itself.

The seaside holiday found its first boardwalk in New Jersey. The Atlantic City Boardwalk opened on June 26, 1870, put up as a temporary structure for the summer season, and it was the first boardwalk in the world. It was eventually rebuilt and extended to become permanent, and the first piers were built in 1884. This began the idea of a shore town built around walking the front.

For a family, the design on the urn is the stretch of coast the person kept going back to, and what they were like once they were standing on it.

Source: Wikipedia, Atlantic City Boardwalk

Whether the person you are remembering kept the same week at the coast every year, walked it most mornings because they lived close enough to, or finally retired there, these designs will recall their particular rhythm. The choice of a design belongs to your own memory and the specific rituals they held dear.

The family will see them walking that same stretch of coast at the hour they loved most.

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