Handmade shop Alabama Chanin has a new website with a greater selection of one-of-a-kind items and homegoods. Although their limited edition pieces are beyond our budget, we love looking at their site for inspiration. Almost all furniture and accessories are upcycled and pieced together from items with a storied past...
Chandeliers are made from antique fixtures decorated with string, metal wood, and cow bone.
Pillows are hand-sewn from 100 percent organic cotton.
This Butch Anthony sculpture is made from scrap iron, cotton, wood, metal, glass, and paper.
Chairs are made from antique pieces with seats rewoven from fabric scraps.
Fabrics are embellished with hand-embroidered details.
chandelier detail
Quilts are made from antique textiles that have been restitched by hand.
Candelabras are made from repurposed found items.
For more from Alabama Chanin, click here.
how lucious
view Kate (NC)'s profile
There's some nice stuff there but man, what a ridiculous, bloviating website design.
Why do companies persist in having websites that make finding certain items (or classes of items) hard? Do they imagine that we'll think them clever or daring?
view Blandwagon's profile
blandwagon you are so right, painful.
There are quit a few beautiful pieces. This is not my style only because it does not work with what I have but for my one of imaginary houses I would like this look and feel. I have seen this look and feel before and always have a hard time defining it..its sort of ethereal/folksy, hippy/chic all would work great in a East Coast beach cottage.
view LoriSF's profile
They imagine themselves clever and daring.
view charlenemcbride's profile
I want to like this...I really do. It is "clever and daring," I guess. And I am all for repurposing things. In this case, though, I think much of what's been done should have been "freecycled" instead of "upcycled." In most homes it would just look trashy.
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