Heritage groups try to save decaying modernist studio in Scottish Borders
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from on (#6YV3W)
Studio built for textile designer Bernat Klein by Peter Womersley put up for auction despite hopes of private sale
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.
The late modernist 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.
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