{"id":18819,"date":"2025-07-23T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18819\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:46:13","slug":"coalition-formed-to-save-a-listed-brutalist-bernat-klein-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18819\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition formed to save A-listed brutalist Bernat Klein studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The coalition hopes to bring the building back into public use<\/p>\n

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The studio was built in 1972<\/p>\n

The property, which was granted a category A listing in 2002, has been in a state of decline for more than two decades.<\/p>\n

It is being auctioned by Savills, which describes it as in need of modernisation, with further potential “subject to requisite consents”.<\/p>\n

Klein, 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<\/a>, built by Womersley in 1958 and also a listed building.<\/p>\n

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Klein collaborated with major European fashion houses<\/p>\n

The Bernat Klein Foundation (BKF), the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) have launched a coalition bid to save the property from ruin.<\/p>\n

With support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund they hope to “create a new venue to inspire creative arts in the Scottish Borders”.<\/p>\n

It has been estimated the full cost of restoration undertaken by specialists could exceed \u00a33m.<\/p>\n

However, the group’s first priority is to “secure ownership of the property and prevent further deterioration”.<\/p>\n

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It has been estimated it could cost more than \u00a33m to restore the property<\/p>\n

If their bid is successful, they hope the building could provide a permanent base for the BKF and its exhibitions, workshops and talks.<\/p>\n

Prof Alison Harley, BKF chair of trustees, said: “We all want the building to be sensitively conserved and restored to be part of Scotland’s creative and cultural heritage for future generations.”<\/p>\n

NTS chief executive Philip Long said the property was an “outstanding example in Scotland of 20th Century design heritage” which “must be protected for future generations”.<\/p>\n

Dr Samuel Gallacher, SHBT director, admitted that attempting to buy at auction was a “real unknown”.<\/p>\n

He said any donations and support were important to make sure they had the “best possible chance” of purchasing the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHBT The coalition hopes to bring the building back into public use BKF The studio was built in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-18819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}