light. Florence carries a design heritage rooted in classical proportion and material restraint, yet the dark figuring of Black Limba—those grey to nearly black veins threading through golden-brown heartwood—introduces a tension that architects here have learned to harness rather than avoid, using the wood's natural drama to anchor spaces that might otherwise drift toward the merely elegant. Where Flagstaff demanded veneer that could hold its own against monumental landscape, Florence asks it to participate in a longer conversation with built form, and the way Black Limba's color deepens with age means that a panel specified today will settle into its surroundings over years, developing the kind of patina that this market instinctively values. Rosebud understands this trajectory intimately, matching flitch selections to the specific light conditions and interior palettes that Florence projects require, ensuring that the sapwood's pale greyish-brown tones and the heartwood's darker passages read as a coherent whole rather than competing elements. It is precisely this calibration—veneer chosen not just for its figure but for its future—that becomes even more critical as the material continues southeast toward Floyds Knobs, where the architectural context narrows and the stakes of each individual sheet