Office Nostalgia
It's a measure of the fluorescent-lit hellishness of the modern cubicle maze that we're consumed by nostalgia for office cultures that none of us remember. Part of the attraction of AMC's Mad Men is the show's depiction of Madison Avenue at the start of the 1960s, populated by hard-drinking chain-smoking womanizing ad executives and their large-breasted secretaries: in equal measure politically incorrect and glamorous. Or one can go further back to a Victorian era of flattering lighting, mad inventors' laboratories and a belief in technological progress which is only now coming back into fashion. In these period office environments, computers look out of place; but some customizers have solved that problem.
