Art: Sensitivity & Crust

To his friends and associates, Architect Eero Saarinen was known as "a man who is always en charette." The term goes back to the heyday of Paris' Beaux Arts, when young architectural students, late with their assignments, would hire little carts to rush their designs to their professors just before deadline. Saarinen was never tardy because of carelessness; it was merely that he was such a perfectionist that he could not let a plan out of his office until the very last moment. As he himself said, he worked "in elephant time." But before his death last week at 51, he...

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