Inspired by the impossibly smooth surface of a fake wood office desk, Business Furniture is the latest project from the Rotterdam-based design duo Nightshop.
But for the fact that, like Eve, the new M, despite his very familiar leather and wood office, practically out of the old Universal Exports set, is a different sort of figure.
The standard comparisons are based on SIC code 2521, manufacturers of wood office furniture.
The Empire State Building, once stuffed to the viewing-deck with fusty, dark wood offices, has become home to several geek-filled open-plan floors.
In Mr. Key's spare blond-wood office — with no goblins in sight — the sword looked decidedly unmagical.
"This is a family club, and a lifestyle choice," said the manager, an architect named Parvez Qureshi, sitting in his stained-wood office overlooking the golf links.
With this frisky frock over her arm, Ms. Callaghan led me to a large, pale-wood office cabinet that, when she slid open the door, turned out to be a generously proportioned dressing chamber.
Later, as those viewers grew up and movie special effects became more expensive and sophisticated, the blatantly obvious spectacle of stuntmen dressed in big rubber suits rampaging through balsa-wood office blocks began to seem campy and quaint.
The modern Turkish Parliament meets in a contemporary stone-and-wood office building in Ankara and, as befits the capital of the Turkish republic, no sultan oversees its deliberations.
But for a real glimpse of the future, all you have to do is leave Gilman's large, warm, dark-wood office, with its autographed photos and its array of football helmets, and walk down the hall to where Jean Prevost spends his working days, in a small office overlooking the parking lot.
"We have a huge amount of assets in this city," Richard LeFrak said during an interview in his blond-wood offices, where the walls are lined with images of the family's buildings and paintings of Sam LeFrak.
