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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I think I need to clarify that they'll give me a very basic desk and chair, which may be too short for me, but no bookshelves (which I like to use to store my law school text books (no room for them at home) and CDs), and certainly nothing fancy.
Sigh, Design Within Reach, here I come.
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Take the basic desk and chair. Buy a couple of Billy cases from IKEA for the books and then take your time.
Start looking around for used/vintage/antique stuff. Antiques are easy, but you can also pick up some mid-century modern stuff that's interesting and in good shape really cheap if you look around. At one point I had a nice 60s era desk from some Italian manufacturer (I can't remember who) that my firm at the time had picked up for about $100 in an explosion of another firm.
DWR has pretty decent prices on what they sell, but you can do a lot better on the used market. Even eBay sometimes has some nice stuff. Search "eames" - it'll pull up not just eames stuff, but a lot of mid century modern stuff ("eames era").
