SCENE: Alabama Chanin in NYC 5/14, 15, 19

14 May 2010 - 9 January 2011

Alabama Chanin @ "Why Design Now?"

National Design Triennial

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Smithsonian Institution
2 East 91st Street
New York NY 10128

15 May 2010

Natalie Chanin @ The New York Public Library

2 -4 pm

Join us @ the beautiful New York Public Library for their Crafternoon Series
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd and Fifth Avenue
New York City

With an Alabama Studio Style Book Signing

Open to the Public

19 May 2010

Cooper-Hewitt Design Lecture Series

Natalie Chanin Lecture & Alabama Studio Style Signing

6:30 PM

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128

Register At Cooper-Hewitt

BOOK: Alabama Studio Style

In Alabama Studio Style, Natalie Chanin, founder and creative director of the acclaimed fashion and lifestyle company Alabama Chanin, takes readers on a compelling journey of creativity, technique, and inspiration. Picking up where the celebrated Alabama Stitch Book left off, Alabama Studio Style is a craft and lifestyle book all in one.

Here Chanin shares many more of her stitching, stenciling, and beading methods and applies them to twenty extraordinary clothing and home décor projects, each made with organic or recycled materials and designed with “haute homespun” flair. Along with the company’s celebrated camisole and tank dresses, the featured projects include skirts, scarves, pillows, woven chair seats, and a stenciled scrap-wood table. Rounding out the book are recipes for three delicious party menus. Alabama Studio Style shows us that true style encompasses not only what we wear, how we decorate, and what we eat, but also how we care for our environment.

About the Author

Natalie Chanin is the author of Alabama Stitch Book (STC) and founder and head designer of Alabama Chanin, a fashion/lifestyle company that promotes sustainable style and design. She has been recognized for her work by the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, Alabama Council of the Arts, and Aid to Artisans. (source)