High Sunderland, an elegant midcentury home in the Scottish Borders, originally designed in 1957 by British modernist architecture master Peter Womersley\u00a0for celebrated textile designers Bernat and Margaret Klein,\u00a0has been restored to its former glory, courtesy of Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith. The Glasgow-based practice, founded just in 2016 by...
Young architecture studio Loader Monteith restores Peter Womersley’s High Sunderland, a house designed for textile designers Bernat and Margaret Klein in the Scottish Borders
’We are hugely privileged to work on a project like High Sunderland; it was a daunting, sobering, and thoroughly enjoyable project to be a part of. I say a part of, because the whole consultant and client team worked well together to restore what we all recognise as a precious example of modernist architectural history,’ says Loader.
The architecture team worked closely with conservation specialists to ensure the historical gem remains in keeping with its original design and period elements are restored carefully and faithfully. Part of Loader Monteith’s works were a series of invisible updates, which cleverly added eco-friendly features to the existing structure, ensuring it is as future-proofed as possible for its new owners.
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