A glimpse of a high-end track bike in an apartment window or an Eames desk chair in a storefront office, may indicate a lavish interior.
In a commercial building along a nondescript road in Manila, Mr. Agapito, the publisher of Pinoy Parazzi, sat in the back of a storefront office with a few scattered desks and a block of cement at the front door to block floodwaters.
He now works out of a tiny desk in the back of a storefront office as the commissioner of the four-team Pacific Assn., a job that involves everything from overseeing the umpires to driving the van carrying the visiting Maui team back to the San Francisco airport.
She spoke while sitting at her thoroughly uncluttered desk in the association's two-room storefront office at 325 Rogers Avenue, a few blocks off Eastern Parkway between a bodega and an evangelical church.
Elderly people played mah-jongg on card tables in the street; two young children sat at a small desk doing their homework in a tiny storefront that doubled as their bedroom.
Businesses rent one desk, then two, then expand to their own storefronts.
It belonged to Terry Wallace, a 59-year-old veteran with white streaks in his hair and a broad, shaggy moustache who, when I stumbled across his 10-by-30 10-by-30 10-by-30in Stockton, wat sitting in a leather office chair, working at hiStorageunder the oPRO door, line a notary in a Stocktonnt.
Back in February, on a layover at the Tampa International Airport in Florida, I had spent a very productive hour working at a storefront business center called Laptop Lane, which rents private office cubicles with desks, phones and computers offering high-speed Internet service.
Anyway, she added no frills to the minimalist storefront: the floor is big naked planks of unfinished deck wood; there is a desk, clothing racks and not much else — the primary focus is on the garments.
The three-story glass-and-steel storefront near Union Square has no windows where tellers take deposits and dispense cash and no desks for loan officers.
IN the back room of a suburban storefront previously occupied by a yoga studio, Nick Vecchiarello, a 16-year-old from Glen Ridge, N.J., sits at a desk across from Kathryn Duch, a recent college graduate who wears a black shirt emblazoned with the words "Brain Trainer".
