By 2008, when every home design magazine and website started featuring midcentury-style decor in their photo spreads, there was only one explanation: Mad Men’s entire aesthetic took the nation by storm in the summer of 2007 and has yet to recede. Love him or hate him, the show’s anti-hero Don Draper, along with his hard-drinking work cronies, looked incredible, and so did their sets. The drinking culture at Sterling Cooper & Partners can only be described as epic (cigarette smoke had some real presence, too), and the ad men didn’t abstain once back at their groovy homes. Their whole world was awash in Old Fashioneds and martinis. Fittingly, Comisar has gathered a collection of the fizzy, boozy tools and a cart that were so central to the conversations and inspirations dreamed up by Don, Roger and Co. at the office and at home. You can practically hear Don’s brain clicking into gear to conjure Lucky Strike’s next campaign as he mixes a cocktail in his Park Avenue penthouse. Cheers, Don, and break a leg during tomorrow’s pitch meeting.
Intelligent Collector