It’s the simple and therefore most obvious improvements that are sometimes the most difficult for our minds to conceive of, according to Gestalt psychologists. A tabletop with a bend is presumably one of those phenomena that in principle anyone could come up with, but which runs so contrary to the tropes we take for granted in our everyday experience that our thinking first has to overcome this hurdle. But the fact is that this simple intervention, which Patrick Frey and Markus Boge ventured to make after all, harbours several positive effects. Order is finally brought to the desktop when books and other odds and ends can be stowed out of the way along the back edge. These items are even held in place by their own weight – further heightening the organizational utility. Finally, this neatness bonus also brings structural advantages, as the double bend significantly increases the desk’s stability. Additional reinforcement is provided by the crisscross legs that continue the line formed by the rear panel. The proclamatory name of Kant, which diverges somewhat from the reserve otherwise demonstrated here, is presumably an appeal addressed to those doing the work of the mind to think outside of the box now and then. Nils Holger Moormann, who chose the upper Bavarian countryside as location for his firm, might be reminded when contemplating this fold of a well-ploughed furrow.