Here the hallways were still raw plaster.

The thing that had once been Bissell laughed again, raw plaster splattering on the tiled floor.

On the right is a matching portion, unrestored, darkened with age and adjacent to a large white slash of raw plaster.

"Raw plaster is very absorbent," he said.

One thing he disapproves of is the half inch of raw plaster exposed below a fabric-covered column.

Her inspiration came from a book published in 1938 by the designer Paul T. Frankl called "Space for Living," which depicted walls lined with squares of grass cloth and raw plaster over a mantel.