Production Design

Set Design

With the 1920’s, came an architectural revolution. Skyscrapers were beginning to pop up in major cities functioning as hotels and business offices. New materials and building methods were being invented. Houses were built to be heated and cooled more efficiently, they were easier to be kept clean and they were more suited to the lifestyles that the 1920’s demanded. They now housed mostly nuclear families without servants or maids.

Interior Set

 

The Roaring Twenties sparked the beginning of artistic and creative interior designs. The art deco movement influenced glamorous and sophisticated designs with many geometric and angular shapes. Chrome, glass shiny fabrics and mirrors were used throughout the houses. Stylized images of airplanes, cars, cruise ships, skyscrapers were incorporated into the décor. Now that travel was quite common, other cultures were being incorporated into style through exotic touches from Asia, Africa and Egypt.

Interior Colour Palette: Silver, black chrome, black and white, red, green

Props

In the 1920’s, mass production and assembly lines made technology affordable to all classes. Purchases of movies, cars, radios and medicine skyrocketed. One of the greatest technological advances in sound recording, electrical recording, became available to the public through phonograph records.

 

Ashtray

Ashtray

Exterior Set

The streets of Chicago were changing. With the popularity of owning automobiles growing rapidly, street signs and traffic lights were beginning to be installed. With the assembly plant making cars more affordable and faster to make, Ford was able to now invest money into making the automobile more stylistic. Cars were now being painted vibrant colours and both interiors and exteriors were being designed to be just as stylish as the people who drove them.

Car Colour Palette: Red, blue, white, black