Audley Walnut Slatted Wall Panel London

The Audley is the panelling for an open-plan room: tobacco walnut slats from floor to ceiling in panels along the long wall, with plain bays between them, so the dining table and the sofa each sit against timber and the room is divided without a wall.

Slats are 24mm wide and 18mm deep at 12mm gaps on a black felt backer, so the walnut reads as a dark rhythm along the wall and the plain bays between read as pauses.

How it works: the wall is battened at 400mm centres to give a true plane, and the slats are fixed to an 18mm backer board in the workshop in panels up to 1.2 metres wide, so the spacing is identical across the wall and the joins fall behind a slat. The slats stop 10mm short of the ceiling and the corners with a shadow gap, so the panel is never scribed to a wall that is not straight.

Designed for a room that does two things

An open-plan room needs its ends to feel different without being cut apart. The Audley puts a walnut panel behind the dining table and another behind the sofa, with a plain bay between, so each end has a backdrop and the eye still runs the length of the room.

• Tobacco walnut slats floor to ceiling, in panels
• Slats 24mm wide, 18mm deep, 12mm gaps on black felt
• Plain painted bays between the panels
• Finished returns at every panel edge
• Battened at 400mm centres; the plaster is untouched
• Panels made in the workshop, joins hidden behind a slat
• Shadow gap at the ceiling
• Optional LED wash from the top rail of each panel

Designed for the room: the panels can be wider or narrower, run to the corners, or carry a TV plate or a floating shelf; the walnut can be oak, black oak or a painted colour on a felt of the same tone.

Built for everyday use: the slats are veneered on a stable core so they do not cup, the felt behind is fire-rated, and the panels are fixed through the backer into the battens, so a shelf, a screen plate or a picture rail can be fixed anywhere along the wall.

Manufactured in our Wembley workshop

The Audley is made as numbered panels in our HA9 Wembley factory: the slats are cut and spaced on the CNC, glued and pinned to the backer, and the panels are labelled to a drawing of your wall, so the fitters hang them in order and the joins disappear.

The wall, the ceiling, the corners, the sockets and the switches are measured at your design visit, and the panels are drawn around them so a socket sits in a gap, not behind a slat.

Quality you can rely on: your Metro fitted furniture comes with a 10-year guarantee covering parts and labour.