Crazy Coffins

May I interest you in a Cocoa Bean Coffin, sir? The Southbank Centre in London is celebrating death with a series of displays. Its latest offering opened today: Boxed: Fabulous Coffins from UK and Ghana, a free exhibition of bespoke coffins supplied by Crazy Coffins in Nottingham and the Pa Joe workshop in Ghana (title link). The show lasts until 29 January, so look sharp or you'll miss it. CLICK for a video in which David Crampton of Crazy Coffins shows the BBC round his storeroom. CLICK for a Telegraph slide show of 18 stunning coffins in the exhibition. These are works of high craftsmanship which expose most modern art for the junk that it is.