How the Company Behind Prince’s Custom Urn Revolutionized How We Remember Rock Stars – and Family Members

How did you first attract the attention of notable figures?

"…Bob Casale, from the band Devo, was the first celebrity family we worked with. We were still in the concept stage of our business when I saw that Mr. Casale had passed. I was reflecting on the fact that; here is a guy who’s so associated with not only his art but also this very iconic object in the Energy Dome hat. I even thought, it’s the perfect geometry for an urn. So I decided to stop daydreaming and reached out to his management team, expressed my regrets and told them that I have a very unique suggestion about how to honor Bob, his life, his art and legacy…"

"…The Devo story received a lot of press which made us very “findable” for other high profile families looking for something very special. Since then we’ve had the honor of helping the family of Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead, the family of Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots and, of course, Prince. The Devo piece is clearly a replica of the Energy Dome hat, but the real honor has come from being asked to design each of the other celebrity pieces we’ve made from the ground up…"

"…Scott Weiland, best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts…STP's evolution throughout the 1990s and early 2000s involved several tumultuous periods of commercial highs and lows, brought about in part by Weiland's well-publicized struggles with drug addiction…"