"We just needed a big table and some chairs".
An airy space, with a big table and whiteboards, it brought to mind a driver's-ed classroom.
The developers hunch over Macs around a big table, and printouts and notecards are taped up on the walls.
Jonathan Hiam, the curator of the American-music division and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, had pulled a sampling of the various types of materials, in boxes spread across a big table, and I delved in.
"Architects," Diller said — by which she meant "normal" architects — "will say, 'We need a conference room,' so they know it has to have a big table, and some chairs, and they'll start looking at materials.
Spyros Daniil, who manages the Leros Solidarity Network with his wife Matina Kastivelli, said: "Today is Sunday but many women arrived this morning, set up a big table and served food to all the refugees.
The Illuminator's founders, Gerd Pfarré, a Munich lighting designer, and Frank Koschembar, a graphic designer who runs an ad agency in Frankfurt, want you to sit down (at a big table) and give the magazine "your undivided attention".
We had spent just one night there, watching the sun drift behind the peak of Mount Toubkal from the roof of our Berber guesthouse, Douar Samra, eating supper cross-legged around a big table, and retiring to our tiny stone room to find a fire in the grate.
"I'm going to have a big table and will invite everybody," Obama often says.
"We have these huge brainstorming sessions once a week, and we all just get around a big table and everybody throw out ideas, and it's really fun," Simpson says.
