Workspace of the Week: Composed calm
This week’s Workspace of the Week is H Sterling Cross’ simple setup:
Cable management is what makes this desk beautiful. If there were cords hanging beneath it, you would never notice the stunning wood desk. Its smooth, clean lines and unadorned hardware could easily be missed if clutter were in the way. H Sterling has attached a small power strip to the back panel of the desk so only its cable runs down the leg and off to the outlet. Additionally, the model of the SR-71 Blackbird is the only decoration on the desk, which makes the red Swingline stapler appear to be more than a utilitarian tool. The desktop wallpaper, set against this streamlined space, even looks like curated artwork. Thank you, H Sterling Cross, for your submission to our Flickr pool.
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7 comments posted
Posted by akula169 - 01/27/2012
Artful, but not practical. I realize it was placed for symmetry, but the subwoofer should be on the floor – and that piece of glass art on top of it will fall off within a few minutes of the pumping of bass.
Otherwise, it looks like it could be presented in a design installation.
Great phototography skills as well.
Posted by ninakk - 01/27/2012
Twelve South products are positively drool-worthy and I am the happy owner of the BookArc for iPad. I love to look at it sitting beside my iMac and Western Digital whatever harddrive with matte silver skin, quite like in the home above. It is also vey neat to have a wireless keyboard and mouse, but I’m still behind in cable management.
Agree about the subwoofer. Otherwise a lovely piece of art.
Posted by Mike - 01/28/2012
Where’s the chair?
Posted by Wednesday - 01/28/2012
I’m sorry, but this really looks like an advertising display, not a practical workspace one could actually use. I suppose the wireless keyboard and mouse would be…somewhere across the room? It’s a lovely display but I can’t see using it to produce much.
Posted by deb - 01/28/2012
I don’t really believe that’s a “work space”. What kind of work can be done there without a chair? If there was a chair it would get caught up on the rug.
I’d love to see something I can really take inspiration from. How about the work space of someone who runs a busy internet/mail order business out of a 12×12 room in their home? That includes space for all inventory and shipping supplies (selling small to medium size items). That space is also used for the household finance work (like taxes and such). It must include space for multiple printers, large trash can, paper recycling box, box packing materials (air bags, packing paper wads, bubble wrap) and even a box of tissues. Also space for measuring yardage of ribbons and specialty fabrics. That’s what I do, in a 12×12 room. It will never look as pretty as your chair-less setup, but at least it gets work done.
Posted by Joe - 02/01/2012
As posted before, not a practical desk at all. Using normal tables as computer desks leaves surfaces too high for the arms to be comfortable when typing. Drawers look thin enough not to interfere with the legs, but I’d try it before giving a final opinion..
Only ok if using screen as tv, not as a working desk.
Posted by Erin Doland - 02/01/2012
@Joe and others — Be sure to look at the other images of the desk in the Flickr group (there are five or six of them). This is not a table, but an actual desk constructed by a furniture company based out of Chicago in the 1940s. Additionally, the chair has been pushed aside only for the purposes of taking this specific photograph. There are also a keyboard and a mouse on the desk, but they aren’t visible from this angle. http://www.flickr.com/photos/t.....21216@N24/
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