Friday July 18th 2025
Bernat Klein's studio for sale
Written by Local Democracy Reporter, Paul Kelly
The now run-down studio of a renowned textile designer who made the Borders his home is to go on sale for the bargain guide price of £18,000.
Bernat Klein, the Serbian-born designer who died in 2014, collaborated with major European fashion houses such as Dior.
Nestled beside the A707 near Selkirk, the Category-A Listed Bernat Klein Studio is a striking piece of late Modernist architecture by Peter Womersley, built in 1972 as a creative hub for Klein.
Conceived as both a working studio and exhibition space, it celebrated the intersection of industrial craftsmanship and artistic vision.
It is a two‑storey concrete and brick structure with powerful horizontal cantilevers, wide frameless glazing, and a brick-clad central service core – housing stairs, kitchen, and toilets – to free up the perimeter for workspaces and storage.
Influenced by Wright’s Fallingwater and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, it has been described as a “modernist masterpiece of structural elegance integrated into its wooded landscape” but has been in a state of decline for more than 20 years.
The property is being auctioned by Savills.
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