What are the benefits and challenges of using slat walls in interior design?

[BillTre]

Here is something I saw today, slat walls.
Looks pretty cool, very customizable.
Vertical pieces of wood (?) mounted (in some cases) in a sheet on the wall with grooves to fit the vertical boards into it. Some interesting designs are possible:

These would be difficult to keep clean (unless in a waterproof room you could hose down).

 

[berkeman]

slate walls.

Slat or Slate walls? And can you post a link to more info? Thanks.

 

[BillTre]

Slat or Slate walls? And can you post a link to more info? Thanks.

Fixed that.
Slat, like in slats, not slate the rock.
Here is a website I found.

Turns out there are a lot of these. Most are just a boring series of little boards mounted on a wall.
Some, which I had seen before, are grooves cut into a wall board for mounting store display materials.

 

[BillTre]

Here's a video for making computer files and machine cutting of the slats.

 

[Averagesupernova]

These would be difficult to keep clean

My first thought.

 

[berkeman]

These would be difficult to keep clean

My first thought.

Nu-uh...