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IN THE MOVIE "Wall Street," the bad-guy financier, played by Michael Douglas, masterminds his leveraged buyouts while seated at a Burdick Group desk. Actually, it's not so much a desk as a desk system-the first of a new furniture breed, the executive workbench. About 1975, San Francisco-based designer Bruce Burdick foresaw the implications the desktop computer, poised to invade the executive office, would pose. For starters, it meant a nightmare in wire management, what with communications and power cables. So Burdick conceived the idea of a horizontal raceway standing a few feet off the floor to conceal the wires.
