toward the workshops and studios of Bend, where makers have long understood that wood is not a static medium but a living surface in conversation with time and light. Here, where high desert sun streams through workshop windows at angles that shift dramatically across seasons, Black Limba's grey-to-black veining against golden brown heartwood becomes something almost kinetic — a veneer that performs differently at morning than at dusk, rewarding the kind of close observation Bend's craftspeople bring to every material choice. The same willingness to let color deepen and darken with age that defined the previous conversation carries forward here, but in Bend it meets a design culture shaped by outdoor light and open architecture, where panels must hold their own against vast landscapes visible through every window. That interplay between intimate figuring and expansive setting pushes the specification conversation toward something Bentonville's emerging design community is only now beginning to