How Mad Men Brought Back Retro Cocktails & Barware

5 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube monologue, the speaker argues that the television series Mad Men sparked a decade‑long surge in interest for mid‑century modern design, especially furniture and barware from the 1950s‑60s. The speaker notes that gold‑rimmed glasses and other barware from that era, once considered unsellable in the 1990s, are now highly sought after, whereas much older barware from the 1890s‑1910s has not seen comparable demand. The video ends with a call to subscribe for future content.

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And this is a tricky one. Anyone have an idea what was the beginning of the influence to the mid-century modern? Anyone watch the show Mad Men? Yes. Yeah. After that show got so much publicity and everyone loved that show, every designer and decorator, especially for the 10 years after that show ended, went crazy with mid-century modern. So that's mid-century modern furniture, also barware. So barware, like nice glasses with the gold on it, again, my father would not be able to sell that in a million years back then in the '90s. Now everyone's looking for barware from the '50s and '60s. And barware from the 1890s, 1910s, not so much. Please subscribe so you don't miss any future videos.