I keep a nice fluffy down pillow laying on another table in my sewing room that is near my big board ironing station. He seems to be happy there. To keep cat hair off my board when I'm not using it I keep it covered with a towel. That way they can lay on the towel and not get hair everywhere. When it gets covered I can throw it in the wash.
What bugs me is when every time I stand up out of my chair to go press or something when I come back there is a cat in my chair!! grrrrrr. So I just sit on him and then he moves. My female cat likes to keep her distance so she only lays around on stuff when nobody is in the room.