directly transferable to the salt-kissed estates of Montauk and Sagaponack. Here, though, the conversation shifts from endurance to aesthetics—designers in the Hamptons gravitate toward Black Limba not because they need it to survive a hurricane but because those grey-to-nearly-black veins running through golden brown heartwood carry exactly the tension between restraint and drama that defines East End taste. The sapwood's pale greyish tone, not clearly demarcated from the heartwood, allows panels to transition softly across a wall without the hard visual breaks that would feel too assertive for a Bridgehampton dining room or an Amagansett study. It is this same subtlety of gradation—color darkening with age into something richer, more storied—that is now catching the attention of preservation-minded firms working inland, particularly in the historic districts of Hanover, where the question becomes less about coastal light and more about how Black Limba