Where Chevy Chase demanded refinement measured in residential intimacy, Chicago absorbs Black Mottled Makore at commercial scale—the veneer's tightly stacked horizontal ripples and vertical ribbon striping finding their fullest expression across the broad lobbies, trading floors, and lakefront towers that define this city's appetite for materials bold enough to hold a room. That dense, undulating mottled figure, with its shimmering golden-tan base threaded through amber and honey-brown depth, reads differently here than it does in a private study; stretched across a boardroom wall or wrapped around an elevator cab, the three-dimensional optical movement becomes architectural event, a surface that commands attention from fifty feet and rewards it at five. Rosebud's sourcing discipline ensures that each flitch selected for Chicago's demanding project specifications carries consistent figure density from first sheet to last, because in a city where the general contractor, the architect, and the millworker are all watching the same installation, there is no room for a leaf that breaks the pattern. That same uncompromising standard now travels south along the interstate toward Cincinnati, where the veneer meets a market shaped by different traditions and equally exacting hands—