Designers to keep an eye out for: Florence Knoll, Eero Saarenin, Finn Juhl, Kofod-Larsen, Paul Evans, Brno Matthson, Harvey Probber, and George Nelson. Vintage anything by Herman Miller, Broyhill, Drexel, Henredon, and Martinville is also a good bet.
Don’s chair, by the way, is an Eames Aluminum Group Management Chair in black leather and can be bought new ($2,039).
6. Give It Time
A final word of advice: Despite loving the "airiness" and "lightness" of Danish modern furniture, Didul is the first to admit even the "timeless" Mad Menaesthetic is a fad you might grow out of.
"Don’t rush into it. Take your time,” she advises. “It’s OK to slowly build something, to live in the design before investing thousands of dollars that you may regret in a few years.” In other words, whatever’s hot now may be passé in a few years or just annoying to use day in and day out. There’s a reason all these offices and universities have been auctioning off their furniture, after all.
The final season of Mad Men runs Sundays at 10 p.m. EST on AMC. Experience more sets, costumes, and an encyclopedic dive into the show's creative process with "Matthew Weiner's Mad Men," an exhibition of the Museum of the Moving Image, on view in New York City through June 14.