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"Work Order\nA well-designed home office eliminates clutter and promotes productivity, but the best ones inspire great thinking\u2014and do so with style\nFor her radical redesign of a Park Avenue apartment, Jennifer Post carved six distinct areas out of the 900-square-foot space. The home office occupies an entire bedroom wall. Its decor is in line with the rest of the place, which has a minimalist feel with a strictly white palette and strategically placed accents of color throughout. \"Color is used to increase the length of the apartment. You have to go look for it,\" she says. (February 2005)\nThomas Pheasant renovated a couple's Mediterranean-style house outside Las Vegas, creating an understated and sophisticated environment in a place famous for being glitzy and over-the-top. Pictured: The husband's study has an Art Deco feel with anigre paneling, muted tones, and elegant fabrics. The carpet is by Stark. (December 2007)\nArchitect Richard Meier and interior designer Rose Tarlow collaborated on the renovation of a couple's 2,500-square-foot Central Park apartment. Tarlow used a soft, monochromatic palette to create a light and fresh office. The built-in shelving and drawers allow for a highly organized space. The desk and lamp are by Pollaro; the carpet is by Mansour. (March 2009)\nWhen architects Lee F. Mindel and his partner, Peter L. Shelton, redid a couple's apartment in a 1910 building in Manhattan, they wanted to take advantage of the natural light that streamed into the corner unit. Pictured: The bright office doubles as the guest room. The chairs are by Jean Prouv\u00E9, left, and Hans Wegner. The Orrefors bowls on the low table are by Shelton, Mindel &amp;amp; Associates. (February 2007)\nJournalist Dena Kaye and her partner, designer Dick Fallin, modernized their house on St. Barts in the French West Indies while retaining its basic footprint. Pictured: They turned the terrace off the living room into the office. \"We kept the decor spare\u2014no shelves full of books\u2014in keeping with our theme of simplicity,\" says Kaye. The chandelier, partly composed of paper notes, is a signature design by Ingo Maurer. (February 2006)\nArchitect Frank Greenwald built a Wainscott, New York, couple's Shingle Style residence with painstaking attention to detail. The floors, for instance, are made of custom-milled two-inch Douglas fir. The trim and baseboards have a classic refinement of proportion and scale. And, interior designer Timothy Macdonald painted all the woodwork a crisp white. Pictured: The office, off the master bedroom, has striking vistas. In deference to these views and the natural light, the room was deliberately kept uncluttered. (July 2006)\nKnown for his work on the television series Northern Exposure, Numbe3rs, and The Whole Truth, actor Rob Morrow and his wife, actress Debbon Ayer, enlisted the help of Schuyler Samperton to redo the interiors of their new home in Los Angeles. Pictured: For his office and music room, \"Rob wanted something that felt more masculine, like a modern version of a gentleman's library,\" Samperton says. \"Call it my lair,\" the actor says. The desk and cabinet were custom-designed by Ian Walmsley. (December 2010)\nMartyn Lawrence-Bullard and Trip Haenisch, of Martynus-Tripp, created a European villa-style interior for a couple's Los Angeles house designed by Harold Levitt in the early 1990s. \"I love collections,\" comments Haenisch, who used the wife's office to display classic fashion photographs by Steichen, Horst, and Avedon. \"She has a background in fashion merchandising, and I collect photography,\" says Haenisch, \"so it was fun helping her put together the images.\" The desk is a circa-1830 Austrian Biedermeier. (November 2005)\nA couple with houses all over the world commissioned Robert Couturier to decorate their New York apartment. The challenge: How do you bring \"history and culture\" to something as supremely impersonal as the Time Warner Center (the home occupies an entire floor in the skyscaper)? The answer: Antiques. To provide the wife's study with a heightened sense of warmth, the designer upholstered the walls in a red silk\u2014a bold counterpoint to the zebra-stripe carpet. The desk, crafted of bronze and leather, is a contemporary design by Ingrid Donat. (May 2007)\nFor the interiors of screenwriter Paul Attanasio and producer Katie Jacobs's Beverly Hills residence, Karin Blake combined East Coast tradition with an eclectic point of view. Pictured: The antique English table, bordered by vintage sewing chairs, lends Attanasio's office the air of a workshop. \"My view of myself as a writer is as a craftsman,\" he says, \"so it fits with my image of myself.\" (December 2006)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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