A gallery of contemporary objects and artworks on memory, time, and what remains.
Memento mori was never about dying. It is an instruction addressed to the living.
For five centuries the skull on the painter's table was not there to frighten anyone. It was there to say: look properly, you do not have time to pretend.
We are not a dark shop. We are a bright one. Nothing here celebrates death — it simply declines to take part in the pretence that it is not coming.
Every object is chosen one at a time, made by hand, by someone we can name. Few of each, and when they are gone the mould is broken.
A hand-pulled etching. The cheapest way to own something from this house.
| Maker | Ines Vandeweghe |
|---|---|
| Material | Copperplate etching, 300 g cotton rag |
| Edition | 1 / 90 |
| Dimensions | 297 × 420 mm |
| Dispatch | 2–4 working days |
| Returns | 14 days, no reason required |
A death's-head hawkmoth, cast from a collection specimen.
| Maker | Piet Roelants |
|---|---|
| Material | Oxidised silver |
| Edition | Open |
| Dimensions | 24 × 19 mm · 6 g |
| Dispatch | 3–5 working days |
| Returns | 14 days, no reason required |
A pendant hourglass, sealed with the sand of a single tide.
| Maker | Ines Vandeweghe |
|---|---|
| Material | Sterling silver, hand-blown glass |
| Edition | 1 / 24 |
| Dimensions | 38 × 14 mm · 11 g |
| Dispatch | 3–5 working days |
| Returns | 14 days, no reason required |
A candle measured in hours, not centimetres.
| Maker | Marta Kilián |
|---|---|
| Material | Beeswax, turned brass holder |
| Edition | 1 / 40 |
| Dimensions | 220 × 60 mm · 740 g |
| Dispatch | 3–5 working days |
| Returns | 14 days, no reason required |
A closed vessel, glazed in the ash of the kiln that fired it.
| Maker | Marta Kilián |
|---|---|
| Material | Stoneware, ash glaze |
| Edition | 1 / 12 |
| Dimensions | 210 × 145 mm · 1,8 kg |
| Dispatch | 3–5 working days |
| Returns | 14 days, no reason required |
The serpent that eats its own tail. Cast solid, 2.4 kg.
| Maker | Piet Roelants |
|---|---|
| Material | Cast bronze, waxed patina |
| Edition | 1 / 9 |
| Dimensions | 240 mm · 2,4 kg |
| Dispatch | Crated, 10–15 working days |
| Returns | 14 days, no reason required |
Not a warning. An instruction.
| Maker | Ines Vandeweghe |
|---|---|
| Material | Bronze, silver nitrate patina |
| Edition | 1 / 8 |
| Dimensions | 190 × 140 × 165 mm · 4,1 kg |
| Dispatch | Crated, 10–15 working days |
| Returns | 14 days, no reason required |
Trained as a goldsmith, spent six years restoring reliquaries before making her own. Works alone, finishes everything by hand, and refuses to cast more than a dozen of anything.
Comes from taxidermy and never quite left it. Casts from real specimens, sourced only from old collections — nothing is killed for this work, and he will tell you where every one came from.
Makes objects designed to be consumed by their own use. Wood-fires everything in a kiln she built herself, twice a year, and sells what survives the firing.
You can find the shape. You cannot find this object. Every piece here names its maker, its material, the hours it took and how many exist. If that does not justify the price for you, we would rather you did not buy it.
Every listing gives real weight and dimensions, a macro photograph of the surface, and a picture of the piece in a hand. And you have fourteen days to send it back, for any reason or none.
It is the opposite. A memento mori is a reminder to pay attention to what you have. Nothing we sell is gruesome, and nothing is designed to shock a guest.
Fair. We are new. Everything on this site is dispatched by the maker who made it, tracked, insured, and answered by a person who signs their name.
It would be. This is not decoration — it is a limited artwork by a named maker. The comparison that makes sense is a gallery, not a homeware shop.
Some can. Where that is possible it is written at the bottom of the piece's page, plainly and without ceremony. It is never why we chose the object, and never how we sell it.