where the demands of northern New Jersey's residential design market meet the same exacting standard of figure and finish that Charlottesville's architects have come to expect. In Chatham, where renovation and new construction alike draw on a sophisticated palette of materials, the dense mottled figure of Black Mottled Makore—its tightly stacked horizontal ripples interlaced with vertical ribbon striping, its shimmering golden-tan surface alive with amber depth—answers the need for a veneer that commands attention without overwhelming a room's composition. Rosebud sequences and ships these flitches from Louisville with the same care whether the destination is a Virginia university town or a Morris County kitchen, because the optical movement locked inside each leaf demands continuity across every panel a craftsman hangs. That commitment to consistency follows the veneer further down the eastern corridor toward Chattanooga, where
