Decoration

Paradisbakke School, music room and more

Present name

Paradisbakke School

Original name

Nexø School

Town, country

Nexø, Denmark

Description

interior | decoration | lobby, music room, gym and school kitchen

Completed

1994

Status

extant

Done by

Poul Gernes, Aase Seidler Gernes, Eva Karin Thomsen, Henrik Norn

IDname

PG-Z-4137

Notes

This was the final stage of the extensive decoration of Paradisbakke School (Nexø School), which was started in 1985.

Anthology

Finn Thybo Andersen on the lobby and music room at Paradisbakke School

In the lobby, we are met with a veritable explosion of giant flowers. They are inspired by Swedish folk embroidery and painted with rollers, which were used by the Gernes team as brushes. The ceiling is warm yellow, and the floor is endowed with a star decoration in linoleum. Legs of chairs and tables have been painted turquoise by the car painter.

In the music room the large wall opposite the entrance is adorned with tall stencil-painted flowers, surrounded by a border of green squares. Among the flowers runs the red thread, fastened to painted nails. This motif also appears elsewhere, such as Bygholm Agricultural School and Radar Station Bornholm. The ceiling is pink.

Finn Thybo Andersen: Poul Gernes Decoration Projects. London 2018, p. 399-405. Translated by Dan A. Marmorstein. Excerpt.