Sets for Coppelia

Coppelia is the hardest ballet to design, for if the artist tries to be at all smart or clever the delicate, sentimental old-fashioned flavour of the work is lost. The village street scene has to be Hungarian and musical-comedyish, the workshop of Coppelius has to be musty and un-decorative: both tend to strike the imaginative designer as depressing undertakings.

Modern Ballet Design: A Picture-book with Notes by Richard Buckle. 1955. Page 102.