"I remember standing in Connecticut in some hotel with cheap wood paneling at three in the morning, " Berrard says.
"This looks like wood paneling, but it's wallpaper, " he smiles, tapping the hollow wall behind the desk in his office.
The omnipresent knotty wood paneling gleams with a golden patina, and the lobby is lit with twig-shaped sconces and three enormous antler chandeliers.
The Bradleys hired an architect to photograph and measure every inch of the house, including its eight brick horse stables, extensive wood paneling and massive fireplaces.
Wood paneling and marble pillars line the hushed reception area.
His homes have a designer feel -- interior wood paneling, stainless steel kitchens, built-in bookcases -- packed into a space about the size of walk-in closets of upscale homes.
Mr. Adelson converted the large public rooms on the lower levels with marble floors, wood paneling and high ceilings into a commercial art gallery, according to Nicholas Judson, a broker at Judson Realty.
For a large hauler to do such things would be inconceivable a few decades ago, considering how U.S. station wagons, with their faux wood paneling and gangly proportions, were basically ridiculed out of existence.
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He wasn't a successful man but he gave the impression of being one, and when he took us out to lunch I marveled at the peremptory tone with which he addressed the waiters, brisk unsmiling men in starched white aprons who, in that adult room of wood paneling and cigar smoke, thoroughly intimidated the lanky, nervous adolescent I then was.
The dashboard, armrests and door paneling come in snake wood.
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Interior walls that look like hardwood paneling are in fact made of paper-thin wood veneer on top of Nomex honeycomb, a lightweight paper-and-resin material normally found in jet airplanes.
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