Desk Designs For The Modern Office

December, 1953

Desk Designs for the Modern OfficeIn times past, a company's top brass was easily distinguished from the junior executives by the magnificent, mausoleum-like offices from which they operated.The rooms were big, dark and forbidding. A massive mahogany desk usually dominated the setting, flanked by heavy cabinets and a row of stiff-backed, leather upholstered chairs. Bolts of leaden draperies successfully shut out most of the light and a bigger-than-life painting of the company's founder often glo...