Furniture for a Vintage House in a "Mad Men" style

At the beginning there was Sex and the City with its unbelievable walk-in closets. Since 2008 Mad Men TV show has radically changed the face of television and it has influenced the trends regarding interior design. The Vintage house is back, together with its vintage furniture, the predominance of wooden and metal materials, the essential yet kitsch atmospheres of the 50s and 60s.
These were the years of the proud and triumphal America, of the self-made man "all cigarettes and scotch" no matter what.

Furnishing a house in a Mad Men style means choosing a design which has made history: Mies Van der Rohe, Charles Eames, Eileen Gray, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto. Don Draper's office is a jubilation of American modernism, which ranges from the wooden and rattan chairs - reminding of Breuer's Cesca - to the dark wooden sideboard used as a bar unit.

The provocative secretary Joan often sits on coloured plastic chairs - which were designed during those years by Charles Eames , whereas Draper's wife tells her matrimonial life on a Day bed of Mies Van der Rohe.

The TV series has made of the careful attention to design details nearly its obsession. The ultra chic apartment of Don Draper is featured with Wire metal Chairs, designed by Eames and Bertoia, whose shapes have been reinterpreted also by Magis in its Piña chairs.

And obviously the black or white leather sofa which featured every house and office environment in those years, is a must-have... even better if it comes in a Chesterfield style!

The sofa was often accompanied by the armchair with footrest designed by Eames, - upon which the father could read the newspaper and smoke the tobacco pipe-, or by Wassily leather and metal chairs, originally designed by Breuer for Kandinsky painter, and thoroughly used as guest chairs inside the waiting rooms of almost every American postwar offices, which at that time were struggling for success at all costs.