demand these panels not merely as décor but as architecture-grade surfacing. Houston's commercial interiors—hotel lobbies along the Galleria corridor, executive boardrooms in the Energy Corridor, restaurant concepts cycling through Montrose—require a veneer whose golden-brown heartwood and dramatic grey-to-black streaking can anchor large-format applications without visual fatigue, and Black Limba's natural figuring delivers precisely that range of warmth and contrast. Where Hot Springs called for intimacy and restrained elegance, Houston demands scale, and Rosebud sequences flitch-matched sheets so that those dark veins track coherently across expansive wall planes and oversized conference tables, preserving the organic narrative of the log even at metropolitan dimensions. As the sapwood's pale greyish-brown tones blend subtly into the deeper heartwood, designers here find a tonal flexibility that pairs as readily with polished concrete as it does with brass detailing—a versatility that only sharpens as we follow the veneer northeast into Hudson, where the design vocabulary shifts toward something altogether more
