The following set design drawing was one that I drew recently to depict the differences between Working Class and Middle Class in Pre-1914 (1st world war) Britain. I used the inspiration from the BBC Drama: Upstairs Downstairs and the famous play: ‘An Inspector Calls’ which was set in a 1912 Middle Class drawing room. By using the Drawing Room of a Middle Class house and the Kitchen on a Working Class house I could combine the two sets together with one half of each room with the table as the main feature joining the two classes in the centre. The drawing took a long time because every single item that was drawn had to be researched, I watched online clips of a film adaptation of ‘An Inspector Calls’ as well as the first series of ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ to get a feel of the differences and tensions between the two classes.
