WHICH came first, the building or the egg? In this case, the buildingan apartment house in overcrowded Geneva, Switzerland, where Teacher Marcel Lachat, 23, and Wife Yanick had a $50-a-month studio. Fretting over a space crisis caused by the impending arrival of their first baby and unable to get official permission to move into a larger flat, part-time Architect Lachat fashioned a $350 egg from glass fiber and polyurethene. After Baby Sarah was born, he attached the egg to a window frame of his apartment (see cut) and moved her into the 353-cu.-ft. shell. Though building inspectors declared the...
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