I found this picture from a while back at a store called Eclectic Home. I would like to try and reproduce something similar. I have the parts drawn up. My question is the center section has camphor around the edge of each piece. I drew up the part and did a vcarve with a 20 degree vee bit as a contour. Do you think this will work. The simulation is hard to tell.
It looks as if each piece as made from a separate part — my inclination would be to arrange things either for more efficient cutting, or to get consistent grain orientation for aesthetics.
My first thought is that that front piece could be a solid piece. You could arrange for the grain to be one way or another. The example certainly didn’t worry about grain direction.
Then the background is added of small pieces where you can hide the fastening of them together.
You could look at making it a rotating piece so its look can be somewhat variable depending on your mood. 
This is early development. I agree that I can rearrange by flipping one row and getting a smaller material size. However my question is do you think the vcarve will get the profile on the edge of each piece. I do want the grain to be straight up and down on each piece and then they will go around like a clock face (12 slats).
Try running a test with some MDF and see how the chamfer comes out. A 20° VBit is pretty steep so you might not get the angled effect your looking for. I typically use a 90° and set the toolpath to no offset and then play with the DOC to get the chamfer where I want it to be.
