X-Men: First Class Set Images

The folks over at the Architectural Digest, recently offered a behind-the-scenes look at Fox & Matthew Vaughn's prequel X-Men: First Class with images essentially focused on the various sets, and their '60s style. Offering captions, as well a somewhat new look at January Jones' "Emma Frost" & Kevin Bacon's "Sebastian Shaw", check out the stills below. 

"Englefield House, an Elizabethan manor in Berkshire, England, doubles as the X-Mansion—the home of Charles Xavier and his nascent training center for mutant youths."

"Seagers oversaw the creation of a Soviet general’s boudoir at England’s Pinewood Studios"

"A composite set of several rooms was built to serve as the mod submarine of playboy villain Sebastian Shaw, played by Kevin Bacon"

Several scenes were shot in the estate’s wood-paneled library to which Seagers added extra books and furnishings. Preexisting artwork, meanwhile, was removed in order to circumvent copyright issues. James McAvoy, left, stars as the young Charles Xavier opposite Michael Fassbender, right, as Erik Lehnsherr (a.k.a. the future Magneto).

The Australia House, a 1918 London landmark, was transformed into the Kremlin’s war room using simple, architecturally noninvasive touches, such as a rounded conference desk and a freestanding Cold War–era map

A wind tunnel at Farnborough Airport—once a British aviation research center—became a laboratory and workshop for the mutant Beast (played by Nicholas Hoult, pictured here with Jennifer Lawrence as the shape-shifting Mystique). The interior façade and suspended airplane were constructed out of foam to protect the existing structure.

What appears in the film as the bunkerlike basement of the X-Mansion is in fact a fireproof plywood structure erected on the Pinewood Studios lot. Pictured is Lucas Till as Havok.

The reflective surfaces of the submarine’s nuclear-reactor chamber were achieved using a combination of real mirrors and computer-generated imagery.

X-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men. Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, and January Jones, the film releases June 3!