View from North-West. Digital image of B 74266 CN.
SC 716114
Description View from North-West. Digital image of B 74266 CN.
Date 29/7/1992
Catalogue Number SC 716114
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 74266 CN
Scope and Content Bernat Klein Design Studio from the north-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 studio with its entrance bridge (left) leading to the first floor where clients were received. The cantilevered upper floors with their moulded concrete side beams stop the glare of the sun reaching the ground-floor studio. Large windows allow fine views into the wooden grounds. 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.
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