The artificially aged floors
slant (an important aspect of Kienholz's work is achieving special patinas, for which he has developed an inventory of
techniques using varnishes and shellacs, inks and oil washes, epoxy, fiberglass and flocking — a close - clipped rayon fiber applied with a blow gun to produce a textural effect like that
on a phonograph turntable); the louvered ceiling has been duplicated; and the perfect carpentry of the bar itself had somehow to be badgered into an aging crookedness.