where altitude and aridity conspire to test every material that enters a home. In Snowmass Village, where winter light pours through broad glass at angles that reveal every flaw in a lesser surface, Black Limba's grey-to-black veining reads like the ridgelines themselves—geological, decisive, born of pressure and time. The heartwood's golden brown ground, already warm against snow-reflected brightness, will deepen across seasons in these high-elevation interiors, its color shifting toward richer amber tones that no synthetic finish can replicate. And as that darkening unfolds in the dry mountain air of Colorado, the same flitches travel eastward through quieter climates, arriving in the workshops of Somerset
