From the history of the Bauhaus architectural style to hidden elements of one Palm Springs estate, here s what The Desert Sun staff learned at Modernism Week.
Isokon Flats
- Credit: Savills
Agatha Christie s wartime stay at the Isokon flats - with fur coat, hot water bottle, and pillow over her head to drown out the blitz - is explored in a new exhibition.
Despite having homes in west London, Oxford and Devon, the famous crime writer and her Sealyham terrier James spent 1941 to 1947 living in a 25 metre square flat in what was advertised as the safest building in London.
An exhibition opening on May 22 reveals how she enjoyed a prolific stage of her career, writing novels, stage plays, a memoir and radio play for Queen Mary s 80th birthday - which later became The Mousetrap - while living in Britain s first apartment block made from steel reinforced concrete.