This desk, a slab of a maple tree, is for Megan and I to work side by side.
A desk with a slab of glass atop steel legs is all but invisible.
The Modern Efficiency Desk, a metal slab topping file drawers, a set on each side, was invented by the Metal Office Furniture Company (now Steelcase), in 1915.
ROOMS Smallish and angular, the standard double rooms are filled with smooth walnut-colored wood surfaces, including the long plank floors and rectangular slab desk.
Mr. Ifrah, whose desk is a slab of polished marble propped on two sawhorses, said he gave many of his artistic tenants a break on their rent.
"Technology allows me to do everything here, and I love being around my daughter while I work," Mr. Carpentieri said, sitting at his desk -- a slab of lumber resting on two file cabinets.
His inner sanctum is funkily unpretentious, probably an aspiration/reflection of its occupant: he frankly adores his desk, a macho slab of black glass embraced by a steel frame.
A life that had been tethered to a desk (or my slab of wood as I liked to call it) for 12 hour days, slaving away in a job that was sucking the life out of me.
For years after we were married, I had dreamed of having the sort of massive oak-slab desk that would dominate a room — no more child's desk in a trailer closet, no more cramped kneehole in a rented house.
Much of the house's original high-end furniture was reupholstered and restored; white vinyl Barcelona chairs, a Danish desk with Lucite-slab legs and a matching Lucite chair, a sleek wood and beige-leather sofa.
