Fluted paneling is a type of wall paneling that features fluted grooves running vertically along the surface. It is often used to add interest and texture to kitchen cabinetry, as shown in the article. Fluted paneling is easy to maintain, as it can be wiped clean with a damp cloth as needed.
Yes, a bit of extra dusting might be required; we’d be willing.
In an artist’s Paris apartment, Hélène Pinaud and Julien Schwartzmann of Heju Studio designed a kitchen island “dressed in relief tiles.” See more of the architects’ kitchen remodels here and here.
UK kitchen design company deVol offers this classic ceramic Fluted Sink made in England by Shaws of Darwen.
Avenue Design Studio, a two-woman interior design firm in the Hague, introduced fluted paneling in the kitchen of their Rotterdam Terrace project “to balance out the warmth of the oak cabinets and the sheer visual impact of the natural stone countertop.”
The ripple effect in walnut and marble at the Television Centre penthouse in London. Piercy & Co. architects oversaw the renovation, and fashion designer Bella Freud and interior designer Maria Speake of Retrouvious collaborated on the interiors.
Fluted oak cabinets meet terrazzo in a compact London kitchen by Surman Weston architects. The counter and backsplash are Foresso, a composite sheet material made from, among other things, scrap wood, waste from sawmills, and waste lime plaster.
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Wide and narrow fluting runs up the walls of the in-house café at tech company NCR’s splashy new Sydney headquarters in Sydney designed by Gray Puksand.
At Svinkløv Badehotel, a reinvented resort on the North Sea in Denmark, the reception desk is fluted.
Photograph by Jens Lindhe, courtesy of Praksis.
Photograph by Nicole Franzen via Live Beautiful.
Interior designer/chef Athena Calderone is especially at home in the kitchen: her Amagansett house features this marble-topped island detailed with custom plaster fluting by Kamp Studios (see below).
Kate Fitzgerald of “staunchly feminist architecture firm” Whispering Smith created a fluted focal point in the kitchen of a project known as House B in Scarborough Australia.
In his Bermondsey kitchen London restaurateur Mark Hix created an island out of salvaged cast concrete columns sourced from Remodelista favorite <a href="https://www.remodelista.com/posts/london-townhouse-rustic-remodel-by-architectural-salvage-master-retrouvius/">Retrouvius</a>.
Photograph via The Modern House.
Photograph via @kampstudios.
Kamp Studios of Brooklyn is a two-woman workshop specializing in architectural finishes. Shown here, their fluted tile samples.
What is fluting?
Fluting is a decorative technique that involves creating shallow, vertical grooves in a surface.