Desk Placement

The study is where classical feng shui put learning, and the home office is the study’s modern name. In the yang zhai (阳宅, “dwelling of the living”) tradition — the branch of the art that reads the living house, laid out in What Is Feng Shui — each room is judged by its job. The bedroom keeps rest; the kitchen keeps nourishment; the study keeps attention. It is the one room in the house where someone is meant to sit still, on purpose, for hours — which is why its rules read less like decoration advice and more like a seating chart.