ART A Perch in Bohemia - Art, Love and Life in Chelsea's Swan Court 1931-1961
Swan Court, home in the 1940's to Agatha Christie and the young Margaret Thatcher, was the first modern block of flats to be built in Chelsea in the inter-war years, its uncluttered labour-saving spaces offering a new way of living to Londoners in flight from the over-stuffed opulence of Edwardian mansion flats.