The team, which included Scheidemann's two deputy conservators, Johanna Hoffmann and Claartje van Haaften, clustered around a rough-hewn triangular desk, topped with a large photograph of a garden, which was once part of an installation by the artist Jason Rhoades.
In my office, our Christmas celebrating will begin on the rough carpet tiles around our desks pincering a corrugated plastic cup of warm M&S cava, while making agonising small talk with a woman from accounts you would really rather internally email.
In my office, our Christmas celebrating will begin on the rough carpet tiles around our desks pincering a corrugated plastic cup of warm M&S cava, while making agonizing small talk with a woman from accounts you would really rather internally email.
The Ceniza desk is a mix of rough and soft textures: the back is made of wood (reclaimed Douglas fir from old barns in the Midwest, whitewashed ash or walnut), while the front is covered in leather, flannel or vinyl.
Pale gold walls like she'd seen in a castle in France, large landscapes in gilt frames, a mahogany desk set, contrasted with a rough sisal rug, a plump rubber tree, and natural-looking animal-print pillows.
Or just a far faster/more powerful iteration of the rough-round-the-edges gizmo sitting on your desk today — one which delivers a bona fide step change in performance truly worthy of the moniker 'next generation'.
Gazing mesmerised at her delicate features gently leaking tears on to the desk, you forget she's a bit rough round the edges.
Maybe that is why Moby-Dick does not die, but eventually stoves in Melville's wooden desk, leaving the author bobbing on the rough sea, clinging desperately to Queequeg's coffin.
To help remember names, draw a rough sketch of the seating (for instance 6 rectangles for 6 desks) and note names in relation to where students sit.
And the speech provided a rough road map of how he will navigate the hardest cases on his desk.
