In colored mode (textures on), every item now renders its authored material — textures, vertex colours, and default colours — instead of being stripped to the uniform off-white baseMaterial. AI-generated and vertex-coloured items show their real appearance; slot resolution (override -> curated -> authored) is unchanged. Monochrome (textures off) still collapses to the furnishing clay role colour (the escape hatch). Drops the now-unused isAuthored marker. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>