another joy of home workspace is that the choice of table and chair is not dictated by someone else's budget or corporate color scheme table and chair that reflect one 's own tastes make sitting down to work much more appealing prospect old factory or school chair combined with a retro style folding picnic table for example are a delightfully eclectic and unexpected alternative to typical drab office style furniture but make sure that they are comfortable if they are to be used for long periods alternatively some modern furniture will marry well with global style and is more likely to be erqonomically designed the organic lines of Arne Jacobsen 's classic Ant chair for example complement the abstract ovoid form of many African carvings and it took just as fresh today as it did fifty year ago