6The Exbury Egg, United Kingdom
If you’re in Hampshire and are considering the idea of drifting dreamily downriver, this egg-traordinary, egg-shaped apartment. Artist Stephen Turner, inspired by nesting seabirds on Beaulieu River, commissioned an egg-ceptional local boat-builder to build a buoyant egg-shaped abode that would serve as both a workplace and occasional quarters. It is made of reclaimed cedarwood.
This egg-clusive egg has an egg-emplary, compact floor plan as well. It includes a hammock, a kitchen, and a desk. It also includes a shuttered porthole and an oval-shaped skylight that allows egg-isting light to illuminate the interior of the egg-ecutive craft. Regardless of the lack of electricity and running water, the artist egg-isted here in egg-cess of a year in this tiny egg, creating art and observing the tides.
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