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This Kent Design RE25 panel is a decorative metal grille in a flat wire style, finished in Flat Black, for cabinet door frames, furniture openings, and architectural enclosures.
Flat Black is the finish of choice when the grille should disappear into the design rather than catch the eye. In a painted cabinet with black hardware, a dark interior, or a media enclosure built for a contemporary room, a warm antiqued tone would break the palette. A matte black grille holds the line. This panel also suits radiator covers, louvered-look door inserts, and furniture pieces where the visual weight of the frame and the face should carry the design and the mesh should recede. The 3/16 inch mesh is fine enough that, from a normal viewing distance, the openings read as texture rather than as a grid of identifiable squares.
Wire style shapes how a finish reads on the panel. Round wire catches light along a single curved highlight on each wire's crown, and square wire holds the antiqued finishes well because its flat faces give the patina an even surface. Flat wire is different again: the face of each wire is broad and sits parallel to the panel plane, so Flat Black lands evenly across the weave without the glint of a curved crown and without a shadow line at each intersection. The result is a panel that looks nearly uniform in tone across its face. That evenness is part of what makes matte black the natural finish for this wire style. The 3/16 inch by 3/16 inch mesh reinforces it by keeping the openings small, so the solid surface of the wire dominates the face.
Cabinet shops and furniture builders specifying black hardware throughout a project reach for this panel when they need the grille insert to stay in register with the rest of the finish scheme. Interior designers working on contemporary or industrial interiors use it where an antiqued or warm-toned grille would pull against the palette. The large 36 by 48 inch sheet makes it practical when several openings are being cut from one piece, and the fine mesh makes it a reasonable choice where a denser face is wanted without losing the open patterned character of a wire grille.
Flat wire has a broad, flat face that sits parallel to the panel surface. It reflects light evenly across the weave rather than catching a highlight along a curved crown the way round wire does, and it does not have the sharp shadow lines at intersections that square wire produces.
It is among the finer meshes available. The most common opening sizes in this line are 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch square; 3/16 inch is noticeably denser and more closed-face.
The finish name is Flat Black, which in this catalog indicates a matte, non-reflective surface.
36 by 48 inches.
When the opening should read as texture and the grille should stay in the background, this flat-wire panel in Flat Black is the straightforward answer.
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