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AMC’s hit TV series “Mad Men” about Madison Avenue ad men in the 1960s is as acclaimed for its set design as its clever plot twists.  Sharing the spotlight with the well-heeled secretaries and suburban housewives are the wallpapers, whose drama and scale are a perfect foil for the dramas unfolding on-screen.

Wallpaper is practically a character in the protagonist’s Colonial Revival home, for which set decorator Amy Wells told the Los Angeles Times she practiced “presentism – the act of interpreting the past through the present.”  Today’s wallpaper designers can relate:  While any of the brand new wallpapers (at right) would work on the “Mad Men” set above, they are also brilliantly, joyously very much of today.

Let us know if you’d like to explore the decades in wallpaper and we’ll gladly tap into the thousands of patterns from the Wallcoverings Association’s member companies.

Contact: Anne Martin, anne@martinmarcom.com, 917-817-7557.