the marriage of dramatic natural beauty and refined interior craft has become something of a local signature. Cannon Beach designers working in coastal modern idioms prize Black Limba for the way its grey-to-black veining echoes the basalt sea stacks visible from nearly every window—a material sympathy between stone and wood that few other species can achieve. Where Camden's palette tends toward the warmth of golden-brown heartwood left unfigured, Cannon Beach projects lean into the darker, more theatrical streaks, letting the wood's natural drama hold its own against the scale of the Pacific horizon. That same appetite for bold, site-responsive materiality carries eastward with surprising consistency, surfacing again in the shingled villages of Cape Cod, where