Interior. View of first floor studio.

Description Interior. View of first floor studio.

Date 29/7/1992

Catalogue Number B 74277 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 716129

Scope and Content Bernat Klein Design Studio from the south-west, Scottish Borders This design studio was built in 1972 for the textile designer and artist Bernat Klein (b.1922) to designs by architect Peter Womersley (1923-93). He had previously built the artist's home, High Sunderland, between 1956 and 1957, which is situated a short distance away. The studio is a bold concrete and glass Modern Movement structure on two storeys, with a central blue engineering brick core for services. This shows the first floor of the studio, which was used mostly as a display area for clients. Long black formica window ledges form a desk area (right), whilst the brick walls of the service core have bars for hanging textile samples or paintings. The floor is covered in soft white carpet, which is mirrored by the natural finish acoustic plaster on the ceiling. Bernat Klein's swirling fabric designs and woven textiles were used by many of the great fashion houses including Chanel, Christian Dior and Hardy Amies from the mid-1960s. Klein based his designs around his own paintings, interpreting the richness of the oil paint into coloured and woven mohair, velvet ribbon, linen and cashmere fabrics. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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