Boiserie, flat panels, slats and fluted cladding, for walls and ceilings. Produced to measure, with the module and finish set by the drawing.
Boiserie
Boiserie stopped being a period feature and became a design device: it divides a wall without building a partition, corrects a proportion, and hides services without showing it. What decides the result is the module, that is, how often the panel or the slat repeats.
The fine work is in the setting-out: where the cut lands against the skirting, how it meets the ceiling, what happens when the panel runs into a door, a column or a service panel. That is resolved on the drawing, before cutting. On site it is already late, and it shows.
Three systems
It is not a matter of taste: each system does something different with light, with sound and with the scale of the wall. The choice is made with the project in hand and the ceiling height on the table.
A continuous surface, with no pattern.
When the wall has to disappear and something else leads: the display case, the hung artwork, the grazing light.
Separate slats over a backing.
When rhythm is needed, plus some acoustic absorption, without hanging a visible technical panel.
The groove cut into the panel itself.
When the pattern has to read continuous and even, without the deep shadow a separated slat leaves.
Scale
Panelling repeated a hundred times raises a problem a single wall never shows: colour across batches. Two lots of the same species do not come out identical, and in a hotel corridor that difference reads from one end to the other.
It is solved by producing in batches and checking colour against the approved sample, not against the previous panel. That is the approach used at Alvear Icon, Algodon Mansion and Casa Sur Bellini.
Questions
In practice, the module. A panel covers a surface; boiserie organises the whole wall with a rhythm that repeats and closes against the skirting and the ceiling. The material can be the same: what changes is the setting-out.
The damp is corrected first. Panelling over a damp wall hides the problem for a few months and then returns it worse. When the wall is sound but external, it is mounted on a separated frame, with the cavity ventilated.
The requirement is set by the jurisdiction and the type of space, and it is not the same for a boutique as for a hotel public area. With the project in hand, the applicable finish or treatment is defined, and stated in the proposal.
Slatted, yes: each slat follows the radius and the curve is built from the spacing. Flat and fluted panels have a limit, because the piece is continuous. If the drawing has a tight curve, it is better resolved with slats from the start.
Both. Within the same project we produce wood, aluminium, iron, glass and upholstery, and installation is done by our own team. When the panelling goes in alongside the display cases and the floor, there is no need to coordinate three suppliers or split responsibility.
Next step
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