Completed near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders in 1972, Bernat Klein Design Studio is perhaps the most celebrated work of architect Peter Womersley. It was commissioned by the textile designer Bernat Klein as a workspace for his business and lies adjacent to his home, High Sunderland, also created by Womersley, in 1958. Designed to connect harmoniously with its surroundings, its horizontal cantilevers contrasting with the verticals of surrounding trees, it bears a resemblance to Frank Lloyd Wright’s seminal Falling Water. An icon of the last century, it has spent most of this one in urgent need of renovation and remains on Scotland’s Buildings at Risk register.

Born in 1963, Alex Hartley has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally at venues including KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Koge, Denmark (2019); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017); Contemporary Arts Centre, Ohio, US (2014); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2013); Fundación Canal, Madrid (2008); and The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2001). In 2017, the artist’s work featured in the Yokohama Triennale while the monumental, site-specific installation Wall was on view as part of the Folkestone Triennial until November of the same year. In 2013, Hartley undertook a residency with the National Trust for Scotland.