Lille Grundet Housing Cooperative
Lille Grundet is one of Gernes' large, wonderful outdoor colour schemes. It was the members of the co-operative that sent for Poul Gernes only two years after the houses were built in 1986.
Resident Ida Arndtzen narrates:
"We were around two adults from each house – there are twenty houses – and some children, who started discussing colours. I don't you if you can imagine it! Gernes visited and tried to convince us. We made a test. It was supposed to be pink. We dared do it!”
“But then you have to prime these wooden boards, so first, it all turned white. And someone said: ‘Hold on, that's really nice. Let's stop here.’ Then we were back in the argument. We tried the pink, and someone called it a whore colour. But then Gernes came visit and said: 'it's going along just fine.'"
Finn Thybo Andersen: Poul Gernes Decoration Projects. London 2018, p. 134. Translated by Dan A. Marmorstein. Excerpt.
