where the Pacific light pours through glass walls and demands surfaces that can hold their own against an ocean horizon. In Manhattan Beach, where coastal modernism strips interiors to their essential forms, Black Limba's golden brown heartwood threaded with dark veins provides the visual complexity that minimal architecture cannot generate on its own—a single wall of figured panels doing the work that lesser materials need an entire palette to achieve. Rosebud ships these panels from Louisville already matched and sequenced, so the grey-to-black streaking flows continuously across a room rather than stuttering at every seam, a discipline of craft that matters immensely in homes where every surface is exposed and every joint is visible. It is this precision that follows the veneer eastward as well, across the country to the salt-weathered shingle estates of Martha's Vineyard, where
