Nexø School, hallway with night sky ceiling
Original name:
Nexø School, hallway with night sky ceiling
Present name:
Paradisbakke School, hallway with night sky ceiling
Town, country:
Nexø
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.
