Escher shares Szafran's obsessive fascination with staircases and architectural interiors rendered with meticulous precision, exploring perspective and spatial complexity in ways that make the viewer question the nature of interior space.

Daumier's intimate drawings of Parisian urban interiors and stairways share Szafran's close observational approach to depicting the lived architectural spaces of French city life with careful attention to light and shadow.

Aillaud shares with Szafran a deeply contemplative French sensibility toward enclosed architectural and interior spaces, rendering them with quiet intensity and a meticulous observational drawing practice that evokes intimacy and urban interiority.