--- title: AMC Unveils 'The Draper Bench' Outside New York's Time-Life Building description: The building houses the fictional agency depicted in 'Mad Men' canonical: https://time.com/3754716/amc-the-draper-bench-unveil/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-23T17:50:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:22:13.782Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: AMC Unveils 'The Draper Bench' in New York City og:description: The building houses the fictional agency depicted in 'Mad Men' og:url: https://time.com/3754716/amc-the-draper-bench-unveil/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4ec422ae44cd3ed/698784ce35ba6f2be1c07afa/ap516916114060-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jon Hamm appears at an unveiling of a bench dedicated to the "Mad Men" series in front of the Time-Life Building in New York City on March 23, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: AMC Unveils 'The Draper Bench' in New York City twitter:description: The building houses the fictional agency depicted in 'Mad Men' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4ec422ae44cd3ed/698784ce35ba6f2be1c07afa/ap516916114060-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # AMC Unveils 'The Draper Bench' in New York City by [Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly Mar 23, 2015 5:50 PM CUT  Jon Hamm appears at an unveiling of a bench dedicated to the "Mad Men" series in front of the Time-Life Building in New York City on March 23, 2015. Jon Hamm appears at an unveiling of a bench dedicated to the "Mad Men" series in front of the Time-Life Building in New York City on March 23, 2015.Charles Sykes—AP by [Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly Mar 23, 2015 5:50 PM CUT _Mad Men_ fans endured temperatures hovering around 20 degrees Monday morning to catch a glimpse of the show’s stars outside New York’s Time-Life building—which also houses the fictional agency depicted in AMC’s drama. Creator Matt Weiner, along with cast members Jon Hamm, January Jones, Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks, and John Slattery were in attendance when executives revealed “The Draper Bench,” a simple black piece modeled after the iconic final frame of _Mad Men_’s opening credits. “For our mad men—and women—this building represented a fresh start and was a symbol that their new, off-Madison Avenue advertising agency had arrived,” said AMC President Charlie Collier before a crew removed the bright red structure hiding the bench. “For the brilliant creator of _Mad Men_, Matthew Weiner, authenticity is king, so every detail of the show, from the architecture to the furniture to the views from Don Draper’s corner office on the 37th floor, all of it was true to 1960s New York.” Norman Pearlstine, Time Inc.’s executive vice president and chief content officer, attended the event; he was a _Wall Street Journal_ reporter during the period when _Mad Men_ takes place. Neither Weiner nor the cast gave remarks at the brief unveiling. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/23/amc-unveils-draper-bench-outside-new-yorks-time-life-building "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3754716/amc-the-draper-bench-unveil/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3754716/amc-the-draper-bench-unveil/"},"headline":"AMC Unveils 'The Draper Bench' in New York City","datePublished":"2015-03-23T17:50:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:22:13.782Z","description":"The building houses the fictional agency depicted in 'Mad Men'","url":"https://time.com/3754716/amc-the-draper-bench-unveil/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4ec422ae44cd3ed/698784ce35ba6f2be1c07afa/ap516916114060-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4ec422ae44cd3ed/698784ce35ba6f2be1c07afa/ap516916114060-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jon Hamm appears at an unveiling of a bench dedicated to the \"Mad Men\" series in front of the Time-Life Building in New York City on March 23, 2015.","caption":"Jon Hamm appears at an unveiling of a bench dedicated to the \"Mad Men\" series in front of the Time-Life Building in New York City on March 23, 2015.","creditText":"Charles Sykes—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3754716/amc-the-draper-bench-unveil/","name":"AMC Unveils 'The Draper Bench' in New York City"}}]}] ```