I find things like
this strangely fascinating - particularly when you see how makeshift and uncomfortable some of their set ups are. There was a good programme on Radio 4 about this once too, although I can't remember who any of the anecdotes were about - people who could only write standing up, or by dictating perfectly formed sentences to a scribe and so on. The collected Paris Review interviews are also good on this stuff.
Yes, few of them look anything like the idealized image of the relaxing, creative workplace. If I had the chance, my desk at work would look like these.
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