If you're in a position of authority at your job, it helps to have an office that strikes fear into the hearts of your minions when they come to see you. You need to hold on to that power you have and let them know who's boss. I can think of no better way to do that than by having a giant, ridiculous desk.

This is just such a desk. Dale Mathis' crazy clockwork executive desk has loads of gears and cranks inside, all visible through the clear top, making you feel like you're the captain of industry in some industrial-revolution-era mill, wearing a tophat and monocle and petitioning Teddy Roosevelt for an ease on the tariffs that are so hurting your business that you built on the backs of child laborers. Ah, the good old days.

Redstone Gallery, via Boing Boing Gadgets