Summer had stepped inside and she was shoulder-to-shoulder with the armoury clerk behind the stand-up desk.

He worked 15-hour days at his stand-up desk and proved to be one of the best war secretaries the country has ever had.

In one corner of the shop, a white, stand-up desk - edged in black, of course - offers a convenient place on which to write gift cards.

"You do have good timing," she said, allowing herself a private smile at her stand-up desk.

In his office, he works at a small stand-up desk, eschewing the walnut table at the center of the tennis court-sized room.

He takes his lunch at a stand-up desk in the corner of his offce so that he can read papers while eating.

A stand-up desk might seem simpler, but he prefers the treadmill.

The walls are hung with his own pictures and the museum contains a stand-up desk at which he wrote some of his works.

He has a stand-up desk, with a computer terminal and keyboard on top, because he does not like to sit.