Get the Mad Men look in your living room with furniture like the Eames lounge chair

With the recent resurgence of the style of the Swingin’ Sixties coming as a result of a number of television dramas and films set around that time, furniture design hasn’t escaped scrutiny and many designers are concentrating their efforts on reinterpreting the look of some of the pieces of the period.

Living rooms across the world are adopting the Mad Men look slowly but surely; gleaming surfaces, polished wood and minimalist furnishings are a must if you want to accurately recreate that kind of style. The pieces of furniture you opt for, as the focal points of the room, are by far the most important aspects of your remodelling process, so you need to research and choose them carefully.

A consistently popular piece that has graced living rooms and studies since it was first released in 1956 is the Eames lounge chair, designed by Charles and Ray Eames for the Michigan-based Herman Miller furniture company in the United States. With the aim of creating a chair that was unbelievably comfortable and brought the well-loved look of a baseball fielder’s mitt to customers’ minds, the Eames’s chair has never been out of production (though manufacturers use slightly different materials to make it now) and will celebrate its sixtieth birthday in 2016 as one of the most influential pieces of furniture ever designed.

This chair, fit for any wannabe Don Draper, is just one example of the range of options that are available for customers to take advantage of when it comes to redecorating one of their rooms. You don’t have to break the bank on vintage designs; with the amount of Sixties-influenced designers working today, you should be able to pick up the style of the decade brand-new and much more cheaply!