The tremendous change in office furniture that has taken place over the last 20 years is its evolution so as to accommodate computers and information technology devices. Items such as filing cabinets were always long and tall so as to hold a huge volume of standard size files. These pieces of office furniture had absolutely no function. Today that same filing cabinet is desk high so that its top surface can double as space for a computer printer. Our office desks themselves are actually built so as to better accommodate computers as well. Very often the traditional pencil drawer has been replaced with a sliding platform or a computer keyboard.
There still remains a need for the traditional look in executive office furniture. Lawyers, accountants and some bankers will no doubt be buying cordovan leather chairs 100 years from now. But if you look closely at those same chairs you’ll notice that they now have built in height adjustment and lumbar support. These changes have been made to accommodate line of sight to monitors and more time spent at one’s work station.