Here Puccini's leather chairs, desk and upright piano bespeak a house fully lived in.
Shelves of CDs lined the wall behind his desk, and an upright piano stood to the side.
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill would often work on his book manuscripts at an upright desk, as did the US founding father, Benjamin Franklin.
People are currently milling around an astro-turfed open area — the newly christened "Brand Park" — drinking beer and munching popcorn while surrounded by upright desks (so hip) and more wasted electronics – like unused computer screens and iPads – than you can shake a stick at.
So I mostly read while sitting upright, at a desk, ballpoint pen in hand.
One teenager studies standing upright at his desk to keep from dozing.
Reading books on a PC felt too much like I was working, chained upright to a desk.
With the total capacity of its three cylinders equal to the volume of a large soft-drink bottle, it's also tiny: placed upright on a desk, the block fits easily within the edges of a file folder.
In my family's classic 7 42 p.m. fight, I was usually seated upright at my desk, surrounded by computer equipment; my wife was six inches lower in an old swivel chair.
In March last year he was seen "resting his head" on the BBC News desk before suddenly sitting bold upright as he attempted to regain his composure next to co-presenter Martine Croxall.
As she speaks she is surrounded by three erect plastic penises –blue and brown – which stand upright on the desk in front of her like small Easter Island statues.
