Sales have grown tenfold from 2008, with several thousand of the desks, priced at $479, now sold annually.
The brushed-aluminum concoction, which incorporates shelves, closets and a nifty retractable desk, cost $15,000 -- the price of several conventional beds.
The desk, whose price approaches $500,000, has its original candle slides, hardware and keys.
It's well-known that sitting all day long is slowing killing us, so a few savvy furniture manufacturers have begun to market chic "standing desks" boldly priced at $1,000 or more.
Being a movie critic is a sedentary occupation, first sitting for hours in the dark, then sitting alone for further hours at a writing desk, paying the price in words for the guilty pleasures presented in images.
He wrote: "In that well-occupied female party there must have been many precious hours of silence during which the pen was busy at the little mahogany writing desk while Fanny Price, or Emma Woodhouse, or Anne Elliott was growing into beauty and interest".
The GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt Adapter, priced at $190, supports 3.5-inch hard drives, and the standard GoFlex Adapter, priced at $100 ,supports 2.5-inch drives.
Ask your server or desk clerk for prices.
There is nothing sophisticated about the alleged fraud: clients looking to buy or sell FX from bank trading desks agreed to price currency deals at the price prevailing at 4pm London time, regardless of when the order was placed.
She currently works for Constellation Energy, where she manages the electricity pricing desk for the New York and New Jersey markets.
