We celebrate openly the joy our pets bring us. We grieve them in silence.
The objects that exist to mark that grief — the ones you find when you go looking — don’t do justice to what they were to us.
We’re building Remanē because we believe animals deserve the same kind of beauty that’s usually reserved for people. Not just a paw print on a heart, or a cartoon animal designed for a gift shop shelf.
A note from our founder
“Remanē started with grief.
When my Doberman Asterix died, I went looking for something beautiful enough to hold what he meant to me. I came up short. His ashes sat for months in the plain wooden box from the vet- not because I didn’t care, but because nothing felt like enough.
I knew what a well-made thing looked like. I also knew that what existed already was not that.
So I made him something instead. And then I made Remanē, so no one else would have to go looking and come up short.”
- Erin, Remanē Founder
How we memorialize something reflects how we valued it.
Remanē urns are designed to be lived with — objects that belong on a mantle, a bookshelf, a bedside table. Beautiful enough to display without explanation. Quietly, unmistakably pet-coded for those who know.
The design language draws from Grecian funerary vessels and Wedgwood Jasperware: classical relief work, decorative motifs, forms refined over centuries for exactly this purpose. Into that tradition we introduce a subtle animal vocabulary: the texture of a leash, the stitching of a collar, a dog breed rendered as a finial. Classical symbols of mourning — torches, poppies, laurel — sit alongside these details without announcing themselves.
Each urn is cast in porcelain, chosen for its exceptional durability, beautifully smooth finish and ability to capture fine surface detail.
Every urn is slip cast by hand in our Seattle studio using the traditional method: liquid clay poured into a plaster mould, released, refined, and fired. Every surface detail is sculpted individually. There is a human hand at every stage of the process.
Finials are available for different breeds and archetypes. Glazes are developed to mirror animal coat colors — brindle, chestnut, cream — so that each urn can quietly hold the specific animal it was made for.
Remanē was built for the people who understand, without explanation, why this matters.
Every animal is different. If you have something specific in mind, get in touch.