The Solar Muscle, a solar lamp made by Flexiway, can be used as a desk light.
Similarly, a flat sheet of thick tooling leather, from tandyleatherfactory.com, could be used as a desk blotter or as a top for a bedside table.
It worked brilliantly right from lot one, a 17th-century Spanish trestle table that Mr. Beyeler used as a desk in his office until his death in 2010.
Murdoch, from behind the oak table he uses as a desk, began by noting that at that moment Malone was trying to help Turner finance a bid to acquire CBS, which would compete with Fox.
I found him sitting in semi-darkness at an enormous wooden dining table that he used as a desk, a gaunt figure in a silk robe and two matching blue silk scarves, one of which he wore as an ascot, the other as a turban.
The need for a small, discrete environment as a place of contemplation or connoisseurial consideration led to the evolution of both the tea room and a small study room, called tsuke shoin, containing a ledge used as a desk, shelves, and sliding shoji windows that opened onto an auspicious, usually man-made, view.
To show General Wiranto's cozy connection to the Suharto government, for example, the weekly magazine Tempo found an old photograph that showed Suharto signing a piece of paper on the back of General Wiranto, who was leaning over to be used as a desk by the dictator.
At one of our early meetings, I made the mistake of choosing a seat across from McGrath at the round glass table that she uses as a desk, which gave me the best possible eye contact with her but put the TV behind me.
Sitting at the other end of the Ping-Pong table the "grad students" used as a desk, Dewart appeared equally puzzled.
