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Publication Account
Date 1997
Event ID 1019355
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019355
These two buildings, commissioned by a Borders textile designer and mill-owner, show that Modern arcitecture could cope with planning of highly individualised buildings just as effectively as it addressed the demand for mass social production. The Klein house, one of a series which estabilished Womersley's national and international reputation, was planned in an American-inspired open manner, around features such as chimneystacks and cupboard clusters - a plan described by Womersley as 'subtractive architecture, commencing with one simple volume and breaking it down'. The demureness of the modular prefabricated-timber structure emphasised the natural grandeur of the high beech trees around it. A decade later, Womersley brought a more monumental sensibility to bear on the design of the Studio - whose refined form combines cantilevered plasticity with floating openness to the landscape.
Studio Listed by Historic Scotland, 1994. (Figs 4.1, 4.2).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland, 1945-75', (1997).
