In the painting, La Malinche lies sleeping on a modern bed, with a cracked and distressed wall behind her and a blanket drawn up around her.

The action takes place between distressed walls topped with scaffolding, and the theater's lighting is often used as a scenic element.

The exquisitely distressed walls and wooden-plank ceilings make for delightful dissonance with the ne plus ultra modernism on display.

I Map This grand erstwhile brothel has an alluring mix of restored history (original mosaic tiles, distressed walls) and industrial chic.

The distressed walls and low lighting add warmth to the surrounds.

There are also fabrics that look like ancient frescoes, distressed walls or marble.

The still attached strips of its skin are nailed to the distressed brown wall, turning the fruit into a comical martyred saint.

This erstwhile brothel fuses history (original mosaic tiles, distressed walls) with industrial chic.

They said that the renovations continued, and that, just before the collapse, workers were removing and replacing bricks through the distressed southeastern wall.

But the 20-foot ceilings and distressed walls are "a dream come true" for Suzanne Lipschutz, better known as Secondhand Rose, the antiques dealer.