View of mosaic wall panel.

Description View of mosaic wall panel.

Date 29/7/1992

Catalogue Number B 74291 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 716119

Scope and Content Mosaic wall panel, Bernat Klein House, High Sunderland, Scottish Borders High Sunderland was built 1956-7 for the textile designer and artist Bernat Klein (b.1922) to designs by the Yorkshire-born architect Peter Womersley (1923-93). The architect also designed a studio for Klein which was built in 1972. The house is built using frames measuring 2.43m by 2.43m, and features two separate areas: one for guests and children's bedrooms; and one for the master bedroom and main living area. The house also includes a carport, two terraces and a courtyard. This shows one of the square frames which make up the various elements of the house, in this case, filled with a mosaic (tiny squares of glass arranged to form patterns in wet cement or plaster). This was designed by the owner and suggests a landscape in its horizontal tonal bands of colour. This mosaic with its rigid grid of coloured squares is reminiscent of the woven fabrics designed by Klein. These were used by many of the great fashion houses including Chanel, Christian Dior and Hardy Amies in 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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