Geelsgård Boarding School
A remarkable decoration in a school for severely disabled children. The assembly hall’s high, open ceiling was paneled with lengthwise teakwood strips, painted in warm orange, pink, yellow and salmon shades. The two bottom strips on either side were adorned with simple symbols – squares, crosses, circles, dots and lines – in blue, light green and orange colours. The symbols continued in a frieze where the ceiling met the end walls. As a surreal touch, a white umbrella was placed under the ceiling. In the adjacent corridors, the floors were covered with coloured linoleum.
The ceiling decoration was destroyed in a fire in 2016.
Finn Thybo Andersen: Poul Gernes Decoration Projects. London 2018, p. 262. Translated by Dan A. Marmorstein. Excerpt.
