Bernat Klein Studio, Selkirk. Designed in 1969 by Scottish Modernist architect Peter Womersley for the textile designer Bernat Klein and completed in 1972. Womersley had designed Klein’s house - High Sunderland (1957-58) and the Studio is effectively in the garden, only a short walk through the trees from the house. Klein was forced to sell the Studio when his textiles business struck hard times, and it was occupied for a while as a Textiles Information Centre. It was placed on the market again c.2001, and has been in private ownership for over twenty years. Despite some work having been started, the building has fallen into sad neglect, gaining a new reputation as a cause celebre of Scotland’s modern architecture. It has been on the Buildings At Risk Register since 2002 and is A-Grade Listed. As I write, in July 2025, the building is for sale yet again; this time by auction. Many fingers are crossed to see whether the new owners can restore it to its former glory. I first encountered the building in the mid 1970s and this photograph was taken in November 2015.
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