Chandler and apartment is located in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. The apartment served as a regular setpiece, but in terms of the show's main action, it was not as central a setting as Monica or . It acted not so much as a gathering place for the six friends, but as more of a sanctuary for its two residents, where they could drink beer, watch Baywatch, relax in their barcaloungers, and play games such as foosball, video games on a Nintendo 64 or PlayStation, 'hammer darts', 'fireball' and the less-popular 'ultimate fireball'. It was also the home of and the entertainment unit. It was generally a mess, in stark contrast to Monica's apartment, which she always kept neat and tidy. Finally, it was considerably more modest than Monica's apartment, and was considered generally realistic for two men of average income to afford in New York. The apartment was a testament to Joey and Chandler's lazy lifestyle. When their kitchen table broke, rather than replace it with another, they instead purchased a foosball table and resolved to eat over the sink.
When Chandler's bedroom door was accidentally sawn in half, it was left that way until Rachel moved in, even though it consistently tripped Chandler up. After Rachel moved in the crack in the door was still there but the door was glued together; Joey probably fixed it due to Rachel being pregnant and not wanting to injure her. The guys' apartment is the only place, other than Monica's apartment, that all the friends have lived in; The only relatively consistent decorations in the apartment were a framed picture of Laurel and Hardy, statues of The Three Stooges, the two reclining armchairs, the foosball table, a poster for the 1914 French silent film and novel Les Mystères de New-York, a large white plastic dog that Joey had acquired whilst working on Days of Our Lives and a Magna Doodle on the front door, on which little jokes were often written. The black and white Laurel and Hardy picture is actually a photo still from their 1928 Leave 'Em Laughing. There is also a Scarface poster in Joey's room, as well as a great Guinness poster.
The apartment was refurbished rarely but substantially through the series; in The One Where Ross And Rachel... You Know , Joey took the chance to acquire a big-screen TV and a couple of black barcaloungers. These remain in the apartment until The One With The Cat, when the guys are robbed of everything except for the white dog and the entertainment unit built by Joey. During the first part of Season 4, the guys' apartment contains rusty patio furniture which Joey and Chandler had found downstairs (they also later acquire a small TV). After kissing Kathy, Chandler re-furbishes the apartment with a new entertainment unit (one which opens and closes with a remote at that), a new big-screen TV, a stereo, and two new brown barcaloungers. Although Joey decides to send everything back after learning about Chandler's kiss, the guys make up and eventually keep the furniture. In late season 4, while Monica and Rachel are forced to live in the apartment, Monica tears out the carpet and replaces it with hard wood flooring, which remains even after Chandler and Joey switch back in.
It's not before the sixth season that Chandler separates the barcaloungers to take one of them to his new apartment at Monica's. By the seventh season, it is known that Joey has given names to his furniture and decor - his barcalounger is named Rosita; and the TV is known as Stevie the TV.When Rachel breaks Joey's barcalounger 'Rosita' she gets him a black La-Z-Boy E-cliner 3000. is when Joey decides to build a place for the mail. However, he decides to take his construction "to the next level", and evolves the place for the mail into a fully-fledged entertainment unit. By the end of the episode, the entertainment center is ready and Joey and Chandler set it up with the help of their friends; the center is so wide that it covers the doors of the bedrooms. Although Chandler highly disapproves of the unit (mainly because its construction phase was characterized by a series of accidents in which he ends up with a varnish lid stuck to his pants and almost gets his face drilled by Joey), he puts up with it through the , by which time the unit also becomes a home for .
Chandler and Joey keep the unit until the start of the fourth season (The One With The Cat), when the guys decide to sell the unit. Joey tries to sell the unit to a guy, who looks quite skeptic about it. Joey points out how compartments of the unit are "big enough to hold a grown man", and he fits into it to prove the point, after which the buyer locks Joey in the unit and robs the guys' apartment of almost everything. Not many options are left to Chandler and Joey so at this point, and they are forced to trade their unit for a canoe.Then & Now (via LIFE and Wikipedia) Since Mad Men entered season 4, Sterling Cooper & Partners (née Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce) has been located in Suite 3750 of the Time & Life Building. The group moved in at the end of 1964, about five years after the building opened in real life. The building serves mostly as a backdrop, but bits of its history pop out here and there—for example, the chairs in the office are the Time-Life Chairs, designed specifically for that building.
More on that, along with some other real life facts about the building, below. An original Time-Life chair goes for around $6,000. The chairs that were originally on every executive floor of the building were designed by Charles Eames, and manufactured by Herman Miller. They have become known as the Time-Life Chairs. In 1959, Eames asked Time-Life chairman Henry Luce "for photographs from the Time-Life archive to be used in a slideshow he was creating for the U.S. pavilion at the Moscow World Exhibition. Luce agreed, as long as Eames promised to return the favor one day. The following year, Eames made good on that promise, and 50 years later, the world is still enjoying the results of that arrangement." Look at all that Eames. These are the chairs you'll see in the Mad Men conference rooms, for the most part (Don had a different chair in his office). They are still in production, though a fifth leg has been added—if you want one, you'll have to shell out over $3,000.
(Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York) The Roxy Theatre was a 5,920 seat movie theater located at 153 West 50th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. Opening in 1927, it remained a popular movie and then stage theater through the 1950s, but when Rockefeller Center made its first expansion west of 6th Avenue, purchasing the air rights above the theater, it became a casualty of the corporate world. The Roxy was demolished in 1960 in order to make room for an office tower connected to the Time-Life building. A former trolley barn for the New York Railway Company and the Levy Building were also demolished, according to the Examiner. LA FONDA DEL SOL La Fonda Del Sol. (NYPL) This Latin-American themed restaurant opened in 1960 in the lobby of the Time-Life Building, and was run by the late Joseph Baum, who was the president of Restaurant Associates, and also known for the Four Seasons and Windows on the World. The interior was stunning, designed by Alexander Girard (who was in charge of everything from logos to plates and beyond), and with furniture by Charles Eames.
La Fonda Del Sol closed in 1971 and is was replaced with a bank branch. Hemisphere Club / Tower Suite (Library of Congress) The Hemisphere Club was a members-only restaurant during the day, located on the 48th floor of the 48-floor building. The public was invited in at night, however, when it turned into the Tower Suite. Some of the Mad Men characters dine here during season 5, in an episode called "At the Codfish Ball." The restaurant was also run by the aforementioned Baum, and when it opened in 1961, Craig Claiborne of the NY Times noted, "Although New York viewed from a great height is one of the most visually stunning places on earth, there are astonishingly few restaurants that take advantage of the fact." How true this remains! He also explained, "This is a restaurant for those with leisure. Because there is a sequence of six courses, the time required for dining is a minimum of two hours and it has, on occasion, stretched to three. The public does not order the menu at the Tower Suite: The food is presented to the guests.