Calvino is designed with the dichotomy in mind that a desk system developed for
everyone can not be personalised in reality. True Systems furniture will never look and feel
personal. However, Calvino aims to invoke a warm empathy, trying to motivate the user
emotionally. In this approach the search for a perfect system is substituted by more
relaxed, unattached, interchangable and independent pieces. The soft curves and thin
edges of Calvino’s simple and naive shapes evoke powerful and raw emotions; more
up-lifting than the use of homogenous sharp and industrial systems design language.

For a manager’s workstation Calvino focuses on social relations rather than just
directorial priorities. A new 21st century manager has emerged who is a visionary leader
and relentlessly forges forwards in the battlefields of life together with work comrades.
Emotionally fuelling the team and energising their creative potential.