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    Design and Architecture

    Homemade Heavens and Canine Chic

    Home-made altars are living shrines to a democratic heaven. Frances Anderton finds out about their design, and the bot-nicas that supply the icons in a conversation with Patrick Polk, the curator of a new exhibit at UCLA's Fowler Museum, and Sami Flores, a local Santeria priest. Also, a look at fusion design and doggie fashions with interior designer Martyn Laurence Bullard and online doggie fashion retailer Angela Grieco.

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    By Frances Anderton • Nov 8, 2004 • 30m Listen

    Home-made altars are living shrines to a democratic heaven. Frances Anderton finds out about their design, and the bot-nicas that supply the icons in a conversation with Patrick Polk, the curator of a new exhibit at UCLA's Fowler Museum, and Sami Flores, a local Santeria priest. Also, a look at fusion design and doggie fashions with interior designer Martyn Laurence Bullard and online doggie fashion retailer Angela Grieco.

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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