{"id":412636,"date":"2023-10-27T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=412636"},"modified":"2023-10-27T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T22:29:40","slug":"wood-paneling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wood-paneling\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Rooms Where Warm and Wonderful Wood Paneling Gets a Fresh Take"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Mark Cocksedge<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

When designing a dining room in Paris\u2019s eighth arrondissement, Rafael de C\u00e1rdenas<\/a>, the mastermind behind the New York\u2013based firm Architecture at Large<\/a>, had great bones to work with. The space, in a magnificent Haussmann-era h\u00f4tel particulier<\/em><\/a> was sprawling and grand. The house, steps away from Parc Monceau, also had the type of details for which Parisian residences are known, including white-oak walls (which C\u00e1rdenas believes were installed in the late 19th or early 20th century) and generous, light-transmitting French doors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe restored the oak<\/a> walls and even had one wall re-created and painted to match the weathering of the earlier paneling,\u201d the designer says of his initial work in the space, which was originally a sitting room. \u201cGiven the exuberance of the wood paneling, as well as the client’s desire to have a house that felt contemporary, we let the walls be the most decorative element in the room.\u201d He made the tough decision to paint the floor in order to create a more neutral base for the furniture, given all the wood already there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before opening his firm, in 2006, de C\u00e1rdenas honed his aesthetic as a menswear designer for Calvin Klein<\/a> and then as a creative director for the special-effects production house Imaginary Forces. That\u2019s why his visual conversations, such as the pairing of a locally sourced French country trestle table<\/a> with a set of 1990s Philippe Starck<\/a> for Kartell<\/a> Miss Trip side chairs, feel so right. The white Piao paper side chair by Christoph John, Zhang Lei and Jovana Bogdanovic comes from the clients\u2019 own collection. The two artworks are by French contemporary painter Jean Dolande.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Sam Frost<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The living room of Milan-born interior designer Giampiero Tagliaferri<\/a>\u2019s own Los Angeles home<\/a> is like a hip private club where California modernism<\/a> goes to meet postwar Italian cool<\/a>. The residence was built<\/a> in 1939 by architect E. Richard Lind \u2014 a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and colleague of the acclaimed modernist Rudolph Schindler<\/a> \u2014 for his own use and is characterized by clean lines, an easy dance between indoor and outdoor spaces and the incorporation of natural materials like walnut<\/a> paneling whose graining seems to flicker, even on a cloudy day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the living room, the woodwork not only frames the views of the greenery outside but also serves as a visual go-between, inviting the garden indoors. \u201cThese panels were cut to create patterns on certain walls, while they are plain and full height on others,\u201d Tagliaferri notes. \u201cIt feels very modern, even though it was designed more than eighty years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The panels also provide a perfect setting for Tagliaferri\u2019s assemblage of vintage furnishings and artwork. \u201cI specifically chose pieces in fiberglass<\/a>, metal<\/a>, leather<\/a> and lacquer<\/a> to create contrast with the background and visual tension in the design,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a pair of brown leather Anel circular chairs by Ricardo Fasanello<\/a> (who had a passion for cars and often incorporated wheel-like curves into his pieces), a white-leather and molded-fiberglass version of Joe Colombo<\/a>\u2019s iconic Elda chair<\/a> (named for his wife) and Angelo Mangiarotti<\/a>\u2019s Eros side table \u2014 all found on 1stDibs. The cocoa-colored modular sofas and lounger are by German industrial designer Luigi Colani<\/a>. There\u2019s also a Jumbo coffee table<\/a> in Arabescato marble by Gae Aulenti<\/a> and a collection of cactus-filled, cast-concrete indoor-outdoor planters by Adam Sirak. Other decorative flourishes include a tall, geometric Senufo<\/a> bird sculpture, a cobalt-blue folded painting by Cesare Berlingeri and a large-scale photo work by conceptual artist John Baldessari<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Bill Abranowicz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The nearly century-old white-oak paneling and massive carved door in the dining room of a 1927 home in L.A.\u2019s Hancock Park<\/a> could easily have set a hushed, social-club-library tone were it not for the signature alchemy of Los Angeles interior designer and mid-century-decorative-arts<\/a> expert Cliff Fong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Fong\u2019s interpretation, there\u2019s something distinctly California cool in the rhythms of the honey-blonde space. Perhaps it’s the way Fong, who heads the design firm Matt Blacke Inc.<\/a>, deployed some distinctly unstaid furnishings, including a 21st-century petrified-wood and plywood dining table by Rick Owens<\/a> and a sprightly set of Arne Jacobsen<\/a> for Fritz Hansen<\/a> Lily chairs<\/a>. Or maybe it’s the graceful reach of the 1950s wrought-iron Serge Mouille<\/a> ceiling lamp mounted above, along with the pair of Stilnovo<\/a> sconces on facing walls. The vintage Gerrit Rietveld<\/a> Elling sideboard mimics the oak walls so eloquently it feels as if it were custom hewn to match them, while the corner sculpture by Jason Rhoades adds a spire of visual intrigue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis particular room expresses an emphatic feeling of progressiveness in the mixture of contemporary art<\/a> and modern furniture<\/a> set against a stately, strong and traditional backdrop,\u201d says Fong, noting that the homeowner is an art-world executive. \u201cIt\u2019s the contact between these values that my client and I most enjoyed exploring.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo courtesy of Kerry Joyce<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Plain-sawn white oak in a patinated champagne hue defines the dining room of an Aspen vacation home<\/a> designed by Los Angeles\u2013based Kerry Joyce<\/a>. \u201cThe clients are avid art collectors and lovers of design,\u201d Joyce says, \u201cso we wanted the home to be warm but not too dark, to recall the rusticity of Aspen without being stereotypical.\u201d In fact, he adds, \u201cthe entire house is paneled, which became the foundation and backdrop for all the other furnishing decisions.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce employed rich walnuts, cerused oaks and bronze<\/a> tones throughout the home, which was built by Backen, Gillam & Kroeger Architects. \u201cThese finishes look quite handsome juxtaposed with the mellow paneling,\u201d he notes. \u201cI love the warmth that using natural wood brings to a room \u2014 particularly when it\u2019s done in a contemporary way, so that the room seems fresh and not dated.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He designed the custom walnut consoles nestled in the corners to subtly underscore the warm brown tones of Hudson Furniture<\/a>\u2019s claro-walnut dining table. The paler wood of the arched backs of Holly Hunt<\/a>‘s Siren dining chairs tie back to the lighter walls, while the tidy line of white shades along Jonathan Browning’s brass chandelier offers a nice counter rhythm to the march of the seating. German photographer Andreas Gursky<\/a>\u2019s Lehmbruck 1<\/em> presides over the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Seth Smoot<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

During the 1950s and \u201960s, California real-estate developer Joseph Eichler built nearly 11,000 tract-style houses in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. Inspired by his own family\u2019s brief stint in a home built by Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a>, he wanted to bring affordable mid-century-modern design to the middle-class. His housing featured clean lines, minimal ornament and natural materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEichler homes are known for their wood paneling,\u201d says Christine Lin, principal of San Francisco\u2013based firm Form + Field<\/a>, which was called in to revivify one of the developer’s Bay Area residences<\/a>, now owned by a pair of ardent cooks and art collectors. In the kitchen and breakfast nook, she notes, \u201cthe previous owners had removed the original paneling.\u201d She and her clients decided to bring it back as a nod to the home’s history and chose vibrant, period-appropriate walnut veneers to do the job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe color of the wood in the breakfast nook ties in with the walnut cabinetry in the adjacent kitchen, so it feels like a cohesive space,\u201d Lin says. A system of off-white shelving<\/a> allows the wood\u2019s lively auburn striations to peek through between the cupboards and drawers and serve as a background for the clients\u2019 collection of black, white and earth-toned ceramics and serveware<\/a>. The Paul McCobb<\/a> blonde-maple cabinet and Frank Gehry<\/a> maple-and-plywood Hat Trick chairs are also the clients\u2019 own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Nicole Franzen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Miami-based Jennifer Bunsa deftly conjures a mood with her use of color, pattern and texture. For the study of a gut-renovated beach cottage in Jacksonville, Florida<\/a>, her goal was to create a room that was at once warm, charming and family friendly while exuding an air of mystery. Also, per the homeowner\u2019s request, there were to be no white walls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was Bunsa Studio<\/a>\u2019s third time working with the clients, an active family of five. Inspired by the simple 1930s cottages that were once abundant in the home\u2019s Ponte Vedra neighborhood, and by the weathered cottages of the New England coast, Bunsa used cypress<\/a> wood throughout to add warmth. She switched to pecky cypress in certain rooms, such as the study, \u201cto provide contrast, texture and differentiation.\u201d Pecky cypress, with its distinctive pattern of oblong holes, proved the perfect expression of the beachside ease that the designer and her clients sought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bunsa laid a custom rug by Christopher Farr<\/a> across the hard oak floors and installed a large work by Los Angeles\u2013based textile artist Adam Pogue as a scrim across the windows to add tone and softness. This creates a stained-glass effect as light streams in, touching the surfaces of the room\u2019s decor, which includes a heather-blue George Smith<\/a> sofa, a BDDW<\/a> credenza and a painting by North Carolina artist Brian Coleman. A 1960s Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni<\/a> for Flos<\/a> Viscontea pendant light hangs bat-like over the tiled surface of Roger Capron<\/a>\u2019s Shogun coffee table, which, like the 1960s Afra & Tobia Scarpa<\/a> leather-and-walnut chair in the corner, was purchased on 1stDibs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Trevor Tondro<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing precious about this place,\u201d says Los Angeles\u2013based Madeline Stuart<\/a>, referring to the main living pavilion at LC Ranch<\/a>, a complex of low-lying structures just outside Three Forks, Montana, on which she collaborated with David Lake, of San Antonio\u2019s Lake\/Flato Architects. \u201cThis is a completely open house, and everyone \u2014 including the dogs \u2014 mills about from room to room, grabbing something from the fridge, hanging out in the living room or convening on the porch.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Constructed of concrete<\/a>, black-steel framing and both reclaimed wood<\/a> and new Douglas fir, the central building was inspired by the classic barns and sod houses that flecked the Montana prairie in previous centuries. (Indeed, LC Ranch\u2019s design includes some planted sod roofing, which helps it to blend with the landscape.) That called for furnishings that were comfortable, gutsy and durable, explains Stuart, who used lots of rugged upholstery, such as chestnut- and mahogany-toned saddle leather that would gain patina over time. \u201cThis is ranch living with a groovier vibe,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dining room, which is separated from the living room by a sliding barn door made of reclaimed wood, is a particularly high-traffic spot. Stuart designed the generously sized table, made from a single piece of claro walnut with a custom bronze trestle base, and paired it with a set of vintage teak-and-leather Hans Wegner<\/a> chairs from Hostler Burrows<\/a>. \u201cWe had to add to the original set, as there were only eight and the table seats twelve,\u201d she says. \u201cWe found others that don\u2019t necessarily match, but no one seems to mind.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above the table hang two vintage Lightolier<\/a> woven-metal globes that Stuart had painted to match the color of the steel trusses. Lake\/Flato designed the armature to support them. Stuart bridged the dividing line between the dining area and the living room with a weighty 1970s artwork<\/a> composed of small pieces of wood in various tones and shapes. \u201cIt\u2019s mesmerizing in its complexity and was a fabulous find at a terrific price,\u201d she says. \u201cI love hunting for marvelous things that possess the ability to transform a space.\u201d Of the lofty, open room, which feels so at one with its surroundings, she notes, \u201cThe exposed wood structure and highly textural materiality of the space is an artwork itself.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Angie Seckinger<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In the family room of a home overlooking the Southern River<\/a> in Annapolis, Maryland, Robert Brown and Todd Davis, principals of Brown Davis Architecture & Interiors<\/a>, deployed a distinctive, bold pattern of inlaid wood veneer to unify the space. \u201cWe used ribbon mahogany<\/a> as the straight grain, maple<\/a> wood for the frame inlay and madrone burl for the center fields,\u201d says Davis, whose Miami-based firm also has offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. \u201cIt was designed to match the kitchen cabinets and help meld the two spaces. Paired with the cobbled pattern of the stone walls, it conjures a cozy environment that is at once rustic and inviting.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He and Brown chose a wood-slab table to give the room a lodge-like feel and a set of gray-upholstered Holly Hunt dining chairs that visually tie back to the palette of the stone; the glass chandelier overhead is also by Holly Hunt. A pair of custom wing chairs<\/a> upholstered in a bold black-and-white zigzag pattern are tucked on either side of the fireplace. The slender floor lamp<\/a> with a pierced metal shade to the left of the fireplace was found on 1stDibs. The horse photograph is by Romanian-born Canadian artist Roberto Dutesco<\/a>, from his “Sable Island” series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Tim Lenz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

For the gut renovation of what had been a rather cold white-walled loft in New York\u2019s Chelsea neighborhood<\/a>, Petra McKenzie and Jonah Kilday, partners in Brooklyn-based MK Workshop<\/a>, collaborated with the project architects, Barlis Wedlick, and the clients on the decision to use wood paneling to tie the public spaces together. \u201cWe wanted it to work as a visual \u2018red thread\u2019 that the eye could follow throughout the dining and living areas,\u201d McKenzie explains. \u201cBy adding a good amount of organic material, we instilled a feeling of warmth and coziness into what had been an oversize, very modern space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHaving a very large amount of white oak on the walls and the floor hugely influenced our choices for furnishings throughout,\u201d she continues. \u201cWe added deeply saturated, earthy colors to break up the wood surfaces and also stayed away, for the most part, from wood finishes on the furniture pieces. One big exception is the custom rosewood<\/a> platform sofa with a huge exposed wooden back panel, which we designed as a statement piece for the space. The pronounced grain and rich dark color make it feel more like a piece of art floating in the room than like another wood finish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They introduced a variety of other materials in the decor, like stone<\/a>, steel<\/a>, leather and heavily textured plush fabrics and rugs<\/a>. \u201cEven the custom-designed dining table has no wood parts and was instead crafted from high-gloss lacquered aluminum<\/a>,\u201d McKenzie notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the loft\u2019s pieces were purchased on 1stDibs, including the Afra & Tobia Scarpa leather dining chairs<\/a> from MORENTZ<\/a> in the breakfast area, the <\/a>brass-and-alabaster Galerie Glustin ceiling lamp <\/a> and the pair of mid-century Adrian Pearsall slate-and-walnut side tables<\/a> from Patina Decor<\/a> flanking the sofa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Displayed along the back wall are decorative objects also found on the site, including a collection of Anfora vases<\/a> from 2017 by Brazilian artist Domingos T\u00f3tora<\/a>, a dark-bronze long bowl<\/a> by FAKASAKA Design<\/a> and a pair of iroko-and-oak goblets<\/a> signed by Arno Declercq<\/a>. Objects on the blue shelves at left include two red sea-fan specimens mounted on Lucite<\/a>, a Cubist clay sculpture<\/a> by Doug Rochelle and two hand-painted, hand-glazed mid-century works \u2014 a two-faced sculpture<\/a> and a harlequin <\/a>figure \u2014 by German folk-art ceramist Eva Fritz-Lindner<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Eric Piasecki<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cThis kitchen is in one of the most beautiful prewar apartment buildings on New York\u2019s Fifth Avenue,\u201d says architect Peter Pennoyer<\/a>. The space is part of a project he and his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder<\/a>, took on in a Rosario Candela\u2013designed building<\/a> with covetable views of Central Park and the Frick Museum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe room is done entirely in quarter-sawn white oak with plain-sawn panels,\u201d says Pennoyer. \u201cThis is our go-to wood, as it has character, with varied grain, and takes stain well. It is also durable and available in solids, so we don\u2019t have to rely on veneers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe wood paneling pulls the whole room together, so that instead of contrast between cabinets and walls, we have an all-encompassing, tailored envelope that even frames the ceiling,\u201d he continues. The gleaming Calacatta marble of both the stove\u2019s backsplash and the room\u2019s skirting boards add a bright, clean accent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ridder selected two double-banded Holophane<\/a> pendants from Ann Morris<\/a> to light the kitchen island and a pair of Norman Cherner<\/a> stools for occasional seating. Notes Pennoyer of the whole, \u201cWood brings warmth and character to a room and has the benefit of looking better with age, which is not always true of painted kitchens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Laura Hull<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s really nothing as beautiful as natural materials in a room,\u201d says Los Angeles\u2013based designer Betsy Burnham. \u201cWood brings depth, warmth and an overall richness to any space.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mahogany-paneled dining room of a Tudor-style home<\/a> that her firm, Burnham Design<\/a>, transformed in L.A.\u2019s Hancock Park offers an elegant case in point. The subtle grid of stile-and-rail paneling is original to the house and runs throughout the entry, dining and living rooms. \u201cIt\u2019s the first thing you see when you enter the house,\u201d says Burnham, \u201cand the client wanted us to honor and respect it.” She did so by bringing in an array of furnishings in a variety of wood tones, including the warm brown of the host and side chairs by Lee Industries<\/a> and the darker, ebonized hue of the pedestal-base dining table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe chose an ivory-and-black stripe for the drapery, which mirrors the palette of most of the art \u2014 the clients are avid collectors of black-and-white photography<\/a> \u2014 and brightens up the wood a bit,\u201d Burnham says. \u201cAnd we kept this thread of black in the rest of the pieces, including the fabrics we chose for the chairs, which both have subtle black patterning.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the photographs on display are Wolf Suschitzky\u2019s 1937 Charing Cross Road<\/em>, Thurston Hopkins<\/a>\u2019s 1955 Sharing a Chair<\/em> and John Szarkowski<\/a>\u2019s 1950 Screen Door, Hudson, Wisconsin<\/em>, all purchased through 1stDibs dealer Peter Fetterman<\/a>. The bobbin side table<\/a> in the corner, the sconces and the chinoiserie bowls were all found on 1stDibs, too. The clients’ own vintage Art Deco<\/a> silk pendant light provides the finishing touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Ilina Mustafina<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The quiet old-world quality of the light that shifts across the family room of a Brooklyn home<\/a> created by Eli Dweck<\/a> seems completely at odds with the fact that it is occupied by a busy family of five. Then again, Dweck had looked to the works of acclaimed 19th-century English architect Edwin Lutyens<\/a> for inspiration when designing the ground-up build. The clients loved Lutyens’s emphasis on form, symmetry, proportion and order. The interiors are steeped in these values too. Their expression is nowhere more apparent than in the sleek pattern of the family room\u2019s white-oak paneling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe took care selecting each panel for its tone and grain movement,\u201d says Dweck. On the street side, the panels meet floor-to-ceiling windows, which \u201cbring natural light into the room and effortlessly mingle with the toasty wood tones.\u201d Against this, the designer layered in softer elements, like the bisque-toned Holland & Sherry drapes (trimmed in a classic Greek-key fabric by Samuel & Sons), a velvet Ferrell Mittman<\/a> sectional sofa in a dusky cigar shade and an area rug from Weinstein by Stark<\/a>. Smaller textural flourishes include throw pillows<\/a> in wool shearling and nubby boucl\u00e9 and a cocoa-and-beige Herm\u00e8s<\/a> blanket. The Edward Wormley<\/a> side table, the metal-and-glass coffee table and the oak side chair upholstered in a colorway that\u2019s the reverse of the sofa\u2019s were all sourced on 1stDibs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWood and other natural materials fill us with a sense of peace and ground us within time and space,\u201d says Dweck. \u201cBringing outdoor materials like wood inside is not only aesthetically attractive but has a calming energy.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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