Meet the set designers who are the real stars of some of the biggest TV dramas

One of the biggest challenges for Michael Shaw, the production designer of the hit TV show Billions, was how to convey the lives of the ultra-rich: the rarefied world of the 1 per cent of the 1 per cent. Everyone has a sense of what rich looks like, but a TV show called Billions it needed to go beyond that. It had to contain elements which were extreme: landing a helicopter on your front lawn or impulsively purchasing a $70 million beach home.

The result is a voyeuristic romp through the high-powered life of Bobby Axelrod, or Axe, the Manhattan hedge-fund phenomenon played by Damian Lewis. It is a world that exudes the bleached monotone of wealth, visible in the monastic feel of Axes

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Secrets of set design for Succession, Billions and Big Little Lies - The Times

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