On Set In Don Draper's New Bachelorish Pad

Image courtesy of AMC, via LA TimesMad Men junkies (like me!) don’t want to miss a recent feature in the LA Times about the interior selections made in creating the set for the new Upper Westside home of Dan Draper. The apartment is "in a high-rise that feels like it was built in 1960 with a white-carpeted sunken living room and a fascinating fireplace and a Case Study-style kitchen with two pass through windows,” Set Decorator Claudette Didul tells the LA Times.

Among the original items in the apartment are a brown 1964 Frigidaire and a 1964 white metal patio dinette set by Samsonite. Many of the rest of the items filling out the interior of the room were purchased in the Los Angeles area to duplicate or imitate the deep, bright colors of the late 1960s. Including shag carpeting from S & J Biren floor coverings in Los Angeles; a Lied Mobler black leather lounge chair from Galerie Sommerlath in Los Angeles; a magazine rack from Amsterdam Modern in L.A.' and a glass-topped coffee table from Deja Vu in Long Beach. Didul also found smaller items from “antique malls in Orange and Pomona, and the Pasadena Antique Center and Annex and Novotny's Antique Gallery in Pasadena.”

According to the LA Times, "Didul took inspiration from two books by 1960s bestselling interior design author Betty Pepis and Decoration U.S.A., a 1965 collaboration between Jose Wilson and Arthur Leaman.

Image courtesy of AMC, via LA Times