I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been tuning in eagerly every Sunday night to watch the AMC Original Series “Mad Men”. Design afficianados and mid century modern buffs know there is a wealth of furniture, furnishings and delicious vintage set design to be had on the show which takes place in the short timespan between 1958-1962.

It could be like any other show set in an earlier time period, except that its main focus of is an advertising agency from that period. Thus, there is an extreme attention to detail in the way the sets and were constructed and the overall atmosphere. I’ve only been watching from the start of Season 2, but already I’ve seen some possible California Pottery candidates as furnishings in the dwellings of the Mad Men characters.

In last week’s episode 6, “Maidenform,” I did see what I’m sure is a green Bauer casserole with a gold trivet holder. It was in a scene at Pete and Trudy Campbell’s Park Avenue apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where they were hosting dinner, I believe with his brother? I could see the casserole quite clearly in the shot. It looked similar to the pink Bauer casserole I recently found.

In any case, you can be sure I’m going to be keeping an eye out for more sightings in future episodes. I might also have to go and pick up Season 1 from Amazon, haha…

Edit 09/16/08: Actually, I changed out the photo above, which was originally an unrelated scene that didn’t show any actual Bauer. However, in the most recent one (episode 8 “A Night to Remember”) there’s a scene at the home of Don Draper where they have what I believe is a different Bauer casserole on the kitchen table. In fact, it looks very close to the pink one that I found the other day. Very cool!