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Scramble to save at-risk modernist gem in the Scottish Borders

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July 24, 2025

A coalition of heritage and design groups has launched a last-minute attempt to save one of the UK's most threatened modernist buildings after its owners put it up for auction.

- Severin Carrell

Scramble to save at-risk modernist gem in the Scottish Borders

The studio was built in the Scottish Borders in 1972 for the textile designer Bernat Klein, whose fabrics were worn by Coco Chanel and Jean Shrimpton, and is widely regarded as a jewel of late 20th-century architecture.

But the category A-listed studio, which won architectural awards for designer Peter Womersley, has been vacant for decades and is in severe disrepair, featuring on the Scottish buildings at risk register since 2002.

To the surprise of heritage groups who had hoped to buy the property from them privately, its owners have put it up for auction through Savills with an indicative price of £18,000.

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