In the '90s and early 2000s, everyone wanted an Aeron Chair. Industrial designers Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf had created an icon and an office status symbol. However, can you name a single design for a desk that everyone coveted in recent years? I can't. Things were different a century and a half ago, when Indiana entrepreneur William Wooton introduced his Wooton Desk. Patented in 1874, the desk was designed specifically to accommodate the rise of correspondence; in the previous decade,...
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