The Inside of an Italian Hospital

That’s how Roger Sterling describes the very deluxe new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce offices in the Time Life Building. And pretty much like the place I grew up, Hollin Hills. Also coincidentally childhood home to Mad Men’s production designer Dan Bishop. A suburb of 450 mid cent modern glass houses, all by one architect (Charles Goodman) with three of modernism’s best landscape architects including Dan Kiley. 

 

 

You can find this nirvana in the rather conservative confines of Northern Virginia. The nabe is home to liberal lefties and old school CIA agents (according to Michael Sorkin architect also from there). It’s now home to one Republican senator (just about the only Republican in the ‘hood) and you can read more about it all here in a feature I wrote for Wallpaper. On a personal note, my big sister said Dan Bishop once had a crush on her. She also said some other stuff, but that might be libelous.