Word: tableless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baron George Washington Hill) demonstrated the impact of the hard sell with a simple gesture: he spat on the boardroom table. In many contemporary board rooms, the demonstration might have succeeded only in getting the chairman's shoes wet. Reason: the latest trend in office design is the tableless board room...
...that a board table really gives is doodling space. And as we have been trying to promote the idea that you spend a third of your life in bed, the old table and stiff, high-backed chairs just seemed too ascetic." Even more informal are the plans for the tableless board room approved last week by the directors of Long Island's Century Theaters: each director will have an upholstered writing chair, and the room is convertible into a screening theater...
...some executives have misgivings about tableless board rooms and deskless offices. Says Frank Stanton. president of the Columbia Broadcasting System: "I would feel a little awkward with just a coffee table. I just can't be that exposed...
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