Thank you to Lauren Vespoli and Amtrak’s The National magazine for highlighting the importance of community and American-made manufacturing and for including Alabama Chanin in your Made In America feature.
“There is a deep history in every community, and I think that in the age that we live in those communities are being cracked wide open,” Chanin says. “When I graduated design school, you had to go to these centralized areas where that work was done, but now I think that smaller towns in America are experiencing a renaissance. People are wanting to go home.”