Work Chair of Hensley & Co, a huge US beer distributors.
It's supposed to be the ultimate work chair — "a new sitting experience," the company asserts.
She served as an associate professor of economics (2001 04) at Stanford University before holding the Holbrook Working Chair (2004 06) at its graduate school of business.
The magnificent title poem of Larkin's third book, "The Whitsun Weddings" (1964), shows Larkin setting himself within the tradition not only of Yeats but of the 12 poets he professed always to keep "within reach of my working chair".
If the desk and work chair look out of place, or appear to take up too much of the living room, it can be a challenge, Ms. Bourne said, "because buyers don't always have imagination".
And as a standard work chair, it gets the job done.
A document from the reign of William III (1689 1702) gives the number of Turkey-work chairs made per annum as 60,000.
As to the work chairs, hotels are responding to business travelers who all want pretty much the same thing: an adjustable chair with wheels and lumbar support.
They browse a retail Web site, leaving a detailed portrait of whether they are interested in ergonomic work chairs or nursery furniture.
Since leaving Westminster, Short has done unglamorous work chairing an organisation promoting more accountable extraction of natural resources, and another working with urbanisation and slums.
