— that it can hold its own in a city whose design language runs on clean Nordic lines and unadorned surfaces, where every material must earn its place not through ornament but through the quiet authority of its own grain. In Minneapolis, the dense mottled figure of this makore — those tightly stacked horizontal ripples interlaced with vertical ribbon striping, all shimmering across a golden-tan field — does not compete with the restraint surrounding it but deepens it, the way a single sustained chord deepens silence. The specification shifts here from Milwaukee's institutional warmth to something cooler and more deliberate, yet the same sheet of veneer answers both demands because its three-dimensional optical movement reads differently under different design intentions, revealing boldness to those who seek it and discipline to those who require it. And as the line extends farther northwest toward Missoula, where material choices must reckon with an entirely different scale of sky and landscape, the mottled makore will face yet another test of