Cape Cod, where the mottled figure shifts context entirely — from the towering coastal firs framing Cannon Beach picture windows to the intimate scale of shingled cottages where every interior surface earns its place through restraint and resonance. Here the dense, undulating ripple of Black Mottled Makore, with its warm golden-tan base and layered amber depth, meets a design tradition built on weathered grays and salt-white trim, creating a contrast so deliberate it reads as inevitable rather than imposed. Rosebud matched flitches for a residential library where the tightly stacked horizontal figure caught the low Cape light and returned it as something almost liquid, proving that a veneer this optically active needs only a disciplined room to become its quietest, most powerful self. That same principle of bold material held within architectural restraint travels well to the Victorian porches and painted ladies waiting just down the coast in