Decoration Details

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Decoration

Present name

Paradisbakke School, hallway with night sky ceiling

Town, country

Nexø, Denmark

Description

interior | decoration | central hallway

Completed

1990

Status

extant

Done by

Poul Gernes, Aase Seidler Gernes, Birgitte Kann Rasmussen, Jørgen Bedsted, Peter Lissau

IDname

PG-Z-3137

Notes

The decoration of Nexø School is done in several stages.

Anthology

Finn Thybo Andersen on the starry ceiling

The starry ceiling is a unique innovation in Gernes’ world of motifs, created specifically for this place with the stars of the Milky Way as its starting point. School principal Birgitte Kann Rasmussen helped Poul and Aase paint the ceiling together with teachers Jørgen Bedsted and Peter Lissau. She recalls that Gernes did a lot of experiments with the blue colour to ensure that it would not appear black, even in faint evening light.

Finn Thybo Andersen: Poul Gernes Decoration Projects. London 2018, p. 398-99. Translated by Dan A. Marmorstein. Excerpt.