The dilapidated studio of renowned textile designer Bernat Klein is to go on sale with a guide price of \u00a318,000.<\/p>\n
The studio, which nestles beside the A707 near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, was built for Klein in 1972.<\/p>\n
The two\u2011storey concrete and brick structure was designed by Peter Womersley who is considered to be one of the greatest brutalist architects to have worked in Scotland.<\/p>\n
However the building, which was granted a category A listing in 2002, has been in a state of decline for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n
Klein, a Serbian-born designer who died in 2014, collaborated with major European fashion houses such as Dior to design some of the most beautiful textiles of the 20th century.<\/p>\n
His studio was built as a workspace for design, weaving and exhibiting samples.<\/p>\n
It lies adjacent to his home, High Sunderland, built by Womersley in 1958 and also a listed building.<\/p>\n
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) describes the studio as a “very fine sculptural late Modernist building designed by Peter Womersley”.<\/p>\n
It says the building was designed to connect harmoniously with its setting on the sloping wooded site.<\/p>\n
The severe horizontality of the concrete elements succeed in contrasting with the verticals of the trees around it, HES says.<\/p>\n
The property is being auctioned by Savills, which describes it as in need of modernisation, with further potential, “subject to requisite consents”.<\/p>\n
“It remains a masterpiece of structural elegance integrated into its wooded landscape,” Savills say.<\/p>\n