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By Blake Zalcberg -Once upon a time, every office looked the same. If you went into a business in the 1950s anywhere in the country, the furniture was as formulaic as the gray flannel suits worn by the executives running them.
There was a certain respectability in conformity. Looking like every other office was a way of showing that your business was as serious and mainstream as the IBM Electric typewriters on the secretaries’ desks.
That all changed when computers started replacing typewriters. The offices of tech companies from Silicon Valley to Seattle had a different aesthetic, from corporate ping pong tables to the famous photo of Steve Jobs working on his floor.
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