Mr. Sethuraman's wood-panel office is filled with rare framed prints, gifts from photographers like Mr. Testino and Cindy Sherman.
He named the center's maternity hospital for his mother, Margaret, and he kept a secret, paneled office of his own in the complex.
When I met with him in his parish, in a tidy, paneled office near the imposing 18th-century church that looks over the city plaza, Martinez traced for me the moral justification for a living wage back to the encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI and John Paul II, in which the pontiffs warned against the excesses of capitalism.
There was, of course, much more to Milne's tenure than strife: TV and radio flourished, and most viewers' and listeners' experience of the BBC of the time is richer and deeper than the particular darkness that Sloboda recalls from within that "massive oak panelled office on the third floor of Broadcasting House".
This oak panelled office overlooking Horse Guard's Parade and out across to the garden of 10 Downing Street is where Fleming worked as a volunteer officer in naval intelligence throughout WWII.
But they're neither charming, like the assortment of mementos that cluttered FDR's desk in the oval office, nor predictably handsome and tailored like Joe Biden's wood paneled office.
So, on a chilly evening in his oak and sycamore panelled offices at Holyrood, the night skies visible over Edinburgh's rooftops, Alex Salmond clearly felt like taking his fight to the enemy in typically uncompromising style.
The open plan office was the brain child of German post-war designers breaking the link with traditional factory-style arrangements of desks all facing the same way towards a management safely ensconced behind their own cordon sanitaire of oak panelled offices.
Recent revelations regarding mortgage companies' use of "robo-signers" when processing foreclosure documents "may have concealed much deeper problems in the mortgage market," according to the Tuesday report by the Congressional Oversight Panel, an office formed to keep tabs on the bailout.
When the Blue State Obama Administration thinks of small business, it undoubtedly dreams of promising startups churning out solar panels for office buildings or turbine blades for windmills.
Co-invented by Chairman Richard Haworth in 1975, the movable panels allowed office cubicles to be constructed by simply snapping together prewired partitions, eliminating the necessity for electricians to rewire the space.
