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Set Scene

In theatrical parlance, a scene built up by the stage carpenters, or a furnished interior, as a drawing-room, as distinguished from an ordinary or shifting scene.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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