Press review

The scene inside the stylishly renovated former bank on Boulevard St. Laurent looked like a gallery opening. People milled about with wine glasses as a slide show played in one corner and a videotaped interview in another. Glass display cases held sculpted angels. (…) The gathering was a memorial for Ms Beaulieu-Green, and as a venue her family chose an unusual funeral home that is trying to revolutionize the way people confront the death of a loved one.

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This ain't your grandmother's funeral parlour: winner of the jury grand prize three years ago in the Commerce Design Montreal contest, it's sophisticated and streamlined, complete with a catwalk and bar, halogen lights, pivoting glass walls and a removable crucifix on the chapel wall that was designed by an architecture student. "I think the vision 1 had comes from the notion that dying is but part of life," said the 50-year-old Légaré.

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