Bernat Klein Studio Doors Open Day

Important Information

Booking is required and a mini-bus will pick each registered visitor up from West Port Car Park in Selkirk. You are not permitted to park at the Studio - only use the minibus service provided from West Port Car Park. There are no on-site facilities available and currently no disabled access. After your tour, you will be dropped back off via minibus to West Port Car Park. This tour is one ticket per person.

Tour slots 2 and 4 will also visit High Sunderland, the house that Bernat Klein once lived, just a two-minute walk from the Studio. This is a strictly private residence and is being opened up to the public only for these two tour dates. Do not attempt to visit High Sunderland, or the Bernat Klein Studio, if you do not have a ticket reserved.

Google Maps link to pick up point for all attendees: https://maps.app.goo.gl/6k9gdrHTQyzbPVUL9

The Bernat Klein Studio and High Sunderland

The Bernat Klein Studio, a striking example of modern architecture and design, was created in 1972 by modernist architect Peter Womersley for textile designer Bernat Klein, whose couture fabrics were used by leading fashion companies such as Chanel and Dior.

After more than 20 years on the Buildings at Risk Register, the Studio had badly deteriorated due to vandalism and neglect before being put up for auction with a guide price of £18,000.

Scottish Historic Buildings Trust joined forces with the National Trust for Scotland and the Bernat Klein Foundation in a successful coalition bid, securing the building on 30 July 2025 for £279,000.

During this tour you will visit each level of the Studio, including the rooftop, learning about Klein’s work, how the space was originally used, the current state of the building and its future plans.

High Sunderland is the modernist house just next to the Studio, designed in the 1950s by architect Peter Womersley for the textile designer Bernat Klein. Long, low and wrapped in glass, it was Klein's home, a place where his feeling for colour and the surrounding landscape met Womersley's spare, modern lines.