Custom-Designed Memorial Urns

The beauty of a custom-designed Memorial Urn creates space for emotional connection, reflection, solace, as well as a beautiful vessel for treasured remains. We invite you to embark on a journey with us to capture the emotions, the stories and legacies of those you love in a way that holds them close by and in your heart with vibrancy and light.

Unique to You, Custom Urns by Design

Sculptural Reflections would like to help you design a one-of-a-kind Memorial Urn that reflects the unique life you wish to memorialize. Through the poetry of metaphor and symbolism as well as careful listening, Chris Nordin will help you design a glass urn that captures what you feel represents the life you wish to honor as well as creating a suitable vessel for holding the cremation remains. Master glass artist and creator of fine art masterpieces, Chris Nordin will then take that design and skillfully create a Memorial Urn that will reflect your loved one’s life, interests, and passions as well as your love for them.

Perhaps you are more interested in choosing an urn from the astonishing selection that Chris Nordin has envisioned and created. No two are alike and each one will be skillfully forged with the stories and memories of the one honored throughout the process.

Michigan Pines Series

Summers at the cottage, campfires and marshmallows, family stories shared from times long ago…these might capture some of your favorite moments with your loved one. Those times in life hold beautiful memories of when everyone could simply play, relax or go for a hike through pine forests and sand dunes.

Or perhaps these stately trees live upon the land of your home that you shared with your loved one, echoing the whispers of all the secrets and dancing with the joy of loving someone.

On the other hand, maybe stately pines represent a durable love, one that extends itself beyond this loss, through the hardship of letting go.

The beautiful Michigan Pines Series offers the condolences of nature through the artistic expertise of Chris Nordin, a treasure for your home with its astonishing beauty as well as a special urn to hold your loved one close by. See our samples below. You begin this process with your deposit and your consultation with Chris.

Succulents Series

Succulent plants are so easy to grow, so forgiving when we forget to water and tend to them. These special glass urns will remind you of  carefree, sunny and playful days, full of warmth and vibrancy. Their exuberant, many-petaled charm might capture something of the colorful, multi-faceted life or personality of  your loved one.

Or maybe these urns reflect what it was like for you to love the one who has now passed away through the days and years of life’s ups and downs.

Regardless of any other reasons, a Succulent Urn will surely bring you upliftment on days when it seems the sun doesn’t shine. The colors and style you choose with Chris will personalize this urn choice as you welcome it into your home décor where it will surely light up the room where you place it. For samples of this colorful style, see below. You begin this process with a deposit and your consultation with Chris.

Memorial Gazing Orbs as Urns

Our Memorial Gazing Orbs can also be used as urns. They come with a 1.5-inch plug to secure the cremation remains within after it is filled. You can either do this yourself or return to where your received funeral services to ask for help. For this choice, there is no deposit needed. You will simply order a Memorial Gazing Orb from this page where you can choose colors and size. To help you order the appropriate size, please read the description of “Using the Orb as an Urn”. Every orb comes with its own clear glass hand-pressed base, but you may also want to consider ordering the upgraded glass base or think of supplying your own table top display holder. 

Your Personalized Experience…The Consultation

With your deposit, Chris Nordin offers a personal experience that supports each client in moving through the journey of grief. His process begins with attentive and respectful listening to each client as he learns about the person to be memorialized. From there, he collaborates with the client to design a vessel specific to the life of the remembered loved one. No two memorial urns are ever identical: each honors a unique combination of cherished remembrances to honor the essence of a cherished life.

As a master glass artist, accomplished blacksmith and fabricator, Chris contributes his design expertise to custom memorial fine art clients and his nearly limitless technical skills to render any creative vision. Through Sculptural Reflections, Chris dedicates his artistic virtuosity and passion for visual storytelling to deliver museum-quality memorial art, offering solace at a time of grief, and celebration of each life to ease sorrow.

Custom-Designed Memorial Urns can include cremation remains encased within the structural glass surface as well as held inside of the inner void. Your memories of your loved one are integral to the whole process. To begin the design process, click the button below. All custom urns, except Memorial Gazing Orbs as urns, require a deposit of $500, which is applied as a down payment towards the final cost of your custom order. Once you have made your deposit, you will be sent a link to Chris’s booking calendar so that you can choose a time to meet with him for your personal consultation. Chris’s calendar shows dates for two weeks forward at a time. If you need more options for dates than what you see there, please feel free to contact us to make your arrangements.