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A building — whether commercial, residential, civic or institutional — should really never be just that. It should always be considered in context, said architect Clay Benjamin Smook. “It’s more than ...

Who? Lizette Smook's mission is to make innovative products from materials most people would discard, such as dinner plates from rice husks, towels from plastic bottles and bed sheets from bamboo.

Jackie Smook, a puppet maker and creator of the show "Dilly's World," stands with a sardine puppet she made in a day at her home workshop. Jackie Smook, a puppet maker and creator of the show "Dilly's ...

Tucked away in a small neighborhood below the Hollywood sign is Jackie Smook’s puppet workshop, a small sequestered room with a single work table surrounded by the characters she handcrafts from the ...