Another quick note on the Italian hospital posing as Roger Sterling’s office! His young bride might not know how to handle her liquor, but she’s clearly got an eye for architectural trends. His desk chair is an Eames, and the others are Eero Saarinen tulip chairs. Saarinen, a Finnish architect, is best-known for his simple, sweeping, arching structural curves—St. Louis arch, anyone?

He died in 1961, and a year later his masterpiece was open to the public—the TWA terminal at JFK airport, a structure Yale Architecture dean Robert A.M. Stern called ‘the Grand Central of the Jet Age’.

One can hardly think of a designer whose ethos is more suited to support (literally!) our SCDP comrades as they march into the future.

*Footnote by Angela Serratore

January 4, 2010

“I’ve never seen one that game!” Sal says to Don about particularly gregarious stewardess?

“Really?” Don replies with a knowing glance.

Behold!

“The six of us rented a hosue together out there. The pilots called us the ‘sexy six.’ They always looked at you in a sexual way. You know, you’d walk into the cockpit on your first day and they’d say, “This is a test to find out if you’re a virgin,” and they’d have a gyro and they’d make it spin, and then they’d say “Aha, you’re not a virgin.”“

These skies are prettttyyy friendly, fellas.

(via ”The Fifties: A Women’s Oral History.” Brett Harvey. Harper Collins. 1977. New York)

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